Abstract: A self-service beverage distribution system includes a piping network with refrigerated tubing for transporting beverages, such as beer, from at least one source to at least one output. A drinker purchases a magnetic card which represents a predetermined quantity of beer, and which specifies which beer sources the drinker can have access to. A flow meter measures how much beer the drinker dispenses, and the quantity of beer represented on the card is decreased accordingly.

Abstract: An apparatus to conform with an object including a device for heating. The heating device is conformable. The apparatus is also formed of an element within which the heating device is in contact such that when the heating device is activated to produce heat, the element becomes conformable and when the heating device is deactivated, the element becomes rigid. In a preferred embodiment, the heating device is a heating wire which is embedded in the element and there is a housing which contains a conformable support structure in contact with the element which provides a shape to which the element can harden into after the heating device has melted the element.