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unconsumption: The Swap-O-Matic is a vending machine that allows users to donate and receive used items at no cost. Use involves a “credit” system in which participants earn credits by contributing things; credits can be redeemed to obtain items. Its makers say: Participation with the system will allow users to rethink spending patterns, view consumption with a different perspective, and explore issues of material possessions and American consumption through a public installation. The Swap-O-Matic is currently located at the Launch Pad in Brooklyn. Read more about Swap-O-Matic in a Wired story from 2005 here.

unconsumption:

The Swap-O-Matic is a vending machine that allows users to donate and receive used items at no cost. Use involves a “credit” system in which participants earn credits by contributing things; credits can be redeemed to obtain items.

Its makers say:

Participation with the system will allow users to rethink spending patterns, view consumption with a different perspective, and explore issues of material possessions and American consumption through a public installation.

The Swap-O-Matic is currently located at the Launch Pad in Brooklyn.

Read more about Swap-O-Matic in a Wired story from 2005 here.

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    These need to exist everywhere
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