The 1st thing i thought when I opened the article: "what a useless mass production of garbage"

I contracted for them a number of years ago... probably one of their biggest early shows for Arcade Fire... to address sustainability at the time, they had a microphone inside their devices. At the end of the show, they sent a special command that switched it over into "color organ" mode so you could hold it up to your stereo at home and see a trippy light show! (I wrote the audio-to-trippy rgb led code). It was cool, but even better they're re-using them now. It is a great little company in a huge old industrial factory in Montreal. Hi, Vincent!

>> At the end of the show, they sent a special command that switched it over into "color organ" mode so you could hold it up to your stereo at home and see a trippy light show!

That is one of the most awesome things I've read - a company making an attempt at increasing the usefulness of the product after it serves their intended purpose. Such a sharp contrast to the norm of bricking things that might be useful to people just because the company in no longer interested.

Yesssssss! Good times and sleepless nights :) Hi Noah <3

At the end of the show there are boxes to return the wristband so it can be reused/recycled. The vast majority return them, except a small portion who may keep it as a souvenir or to tear it down.

It seems plausible that some combination of the following would reduce waste considerably: (i) a donation box at the exit; (ii) a trade-in station offering $2* or a bottle of water.

* I don't know if $2 is close to reasonable.