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In a Rush to Get Hitched? Insert Coins in the Marriage Machine

It’s always nice when bonkers design concepts become a reality. Like a parking meter vending machine that will “marry” you and your buddies for jokes.

Concept Shed ’s  AutoWed Wedding Machine offers just that. This meticulously built 2.5-meter-tall [8-foot] creation started out as a joke until an American museum commissioned the Cornwall-based creative team to make it a reality.

AutoWed inventor Sam Lanyon explains to Wired.co.uk: “About a year and a half ago we were playing around with an idea about the bastardisation of a traditional wedding by crossing it with a parking meter. We stuck it into the sketchbook and it just sat there as an idea.”

Marvin’s Marvellous Mechanical Museum in Detroit , in the U.S., liked that idea. Thus, over 300 bespoke parts, made from materials ranging from plywood to waterjet-cut aluminium detailing were gathered and the Cadillac-pink love machine was born.

As the video above shows, the AutoWed machine mimics the ceremony used to unite couples in matrimony to produce a beautifully printed, if totally unofficial, certificate for a dollar or U.K. pound. Following the insertion of your spare change, you can enter the details of you and your partner or best-friend-forever on a fancy steampunk-inspired keyboard and enjoy the robotic voice reading out your respective names. In true vending machine style, the AutoWed also pops out a pair of rings in plastic eggs to complete the faux ceremony.

Lanyon has been amazed by the impact the super-cute machine has had. “Within three days of linking it on the website we’ve had 34 pages of  Google results about it. It’s quite crazy.”

Indeed, such is the interest in bringing more AutoWed machines to a bar near you, Concept Shed is simplifying it for more profitable fun for the venues which choose to install it: “We’re going to be designing a simplified version. This one looks great but the custom-built keyboard and other details means that it’s quite expensive. So we’re producing a cut-down version for other bars to appreciate the payback.”

We don’t envisage any serious happily-ever-afters romances as a result of the AutoWed machine, but Concept Shed are pleased with the fact it exists: “It’s just a fun vending machine. We come up with crazy ideas and it’s great to be able to have the opportunity to make them.

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I did something similar when I was young, having heard that a coin is a mixture of copper and nickel I ventured to sanding the edge off to sate my curiosity, were there layers? or was it a mix? My mom went crazy saying you can’t do that; She didn’t say why she just said you can’t mess with money. I never tried to change money until just a year ago when I researched the truth behind this. I found that U.S. law Title 18 section 471 Obligations or Securities of the United States:

“Whoever, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, forges, fraud: an intentional deception made for personal gain. (wikipedia)

so if someone intentionally makes, reproduces, or modify, any money/us bond to fool you and get something from you for their own gain is doing something illegal

If someone makes a ring out of a coin and attempts to tell you that the coin itself is now worth more money that’s fraud. If someone makes a ring out of a coin and sells the ring as a product and is charging you for their service and the novelty while making it clear that they are not selling a quarter that is now worth a dollar is doing something cool this IS NOT fraud.

It’s also important to note that on the website the maker states that he does not cut or solder the rings he IS NOT altering the coin in so far as its makeup; he is merely changing its shape. Like penny smashing machines the penny is still worth just a penny, and the penny is still a penny it’s just smushed now.

I apologize for going all gung ho but I love this kind of cool stuff and bravo to someone who creates more and consumes less. Also when something like this is shown people get so caught up in whether or not it is illegal they don’t stop to say “wow what a great piece of work ” or “doing that must require some manly skills” I know I can’t make a ring out of a quarter.

Again sorry and thank you

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