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Gold-To-Go Vending Machines Sell You Precious Metals On The Spot
Want to invest in gold but don’t know how? Get started on the next street corner with a Gold-To-Go vending machine, which sells gold on-the-spot to anyone who can stick 31 Euros up its snout.
Vending machines, over the years, have sold a variety of things from quick-fix snacks to Japanese sex toys. A new vending machine, in fact, even pays you for feeding it garbage. However, Gold-To-Go takes the whole concept a bit out of the normal realm, dropping a tin-box with a piece of gold in exchange for your bills (note that it’s bills, not coins).
Displayed last week at Frankfurt’s main railway station (as part of a marketing test), novice gold investors can dive pinkie toe-first into the precious metals market using the “gold-dispensing automated teller machines”. The fare is a one-gram piece of gold about the size of a cell phone SIM card, which you can take home [...]
Envirobank Reverse Vending Machines Make Recycling Easier
Remember how vending machines made getting drinks and snacks way easier? Envirobank is hoping the same happens to recycling with their “cash for cans” reverse vending machines.
Vending machines always worked the same way: we fed it money, it dropped down stuff. Envirobank’s new devices turn the process around, taking in recyclables in exchange for discount coupons to nearby stores. Instead of chucking your water bottles and softdrink cans the moment you’re done with them, the reverse vending machines can serve as an alternate destination, giving you a small token for your troubles and, hopefully, making you feel better about doing your part to reduce growing landfills all over the world.
Each Envirobank reverse vending machine can take up to 3,000 containers (deployed to a busy mall, I bet one machine can top out in an hour) and accept various types of recyclables, including PET bottles, green glass and aluminum cans. Each [...]
