Spanish fast-food firm Telepizza is hoping to revolutionise the world pizza market with a new vending machine that catches its own customers and can take their order in 10 languages.

The machine, whose patent belongs to Telepizza's newly-formed subsidiary Vending Pizza SA, detects passers-by and calls out "Fancy a pizza?"

For $1.80 (#1.67) it will then defrost and cook a modest-sized pizza in a minute and a half.

Telepizza hopes to distribute between 3,000 and 9,000 of its "Pizza Magic" machines worldwide over the next three years and estimates they can sell up to 97 million little pizzas.