Biblio-Mat is a vending machine, designed by Craig Small for a Toronto book shop, which dispenses a random used tome for $2 each.

Biblio-Mat vending machine dispenses random books Forget candy bars. Feed your mind with a freshly delivered used book from the Biblio-Mat machine.

Clark Whittington of North Carolina-based Artists in Cellophane turns vintage cigarette vending machines into miniature art galleries.

You’ll find this used book vending machine at The Monkey’s Paw in Toronto, Canada. For two Loonies you can buy a random book from the machine’s hopper. Silly? Absolutely. But as y… ...

Late last year, ArtWorks installed an Art-O-Mat in its new Walnut Hills headquarters building. A repurposed cigarette vending machine that sells cigarette pack-sized artwork at $5 a piece, the machine ...

The Greater Denton Arts Council wants to bring a vending machine to Denton to offer local artists exposure. The Art-o-mat, a retired cigarette vending machine converted to sell a cigarette pack ...

Bull City Ciderworks is the first host in Davidson County for an Art-o-mat. The vending machine dispenses artwork for $5. Cidery owner John Clowney's reflection is visible in the mirror on the vending ...

You see, artist Clark Whittington of cig-capital Winston-Salem, North Carolina, converted the 1950s vending machine into what he calls an Art-o-mat.

The machines, which resemble those that dispense snacks, will distribute cardboard boxes containing clean syringes and disposal containers for used needles.

Insert $2 into the Biblio-Mat, and customers get a mystery, a biography, historical fiction — or a dud. The owner of a bookstore in Toronto came up with the machine as a way to clear his shelves ...

More than 200 Art-o-mat machines exist today, he said. Many sit in museums, which minus the art might seem like atypical spots for vending machines. Take the Billings one.

So whether you're sharing mats at a yoga class or using your own, it's worth taking the time to clean your yoga mat often to banish bacteria and prevent it from falling apart.