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Let the Bocca della Verita (Mouth of Truth) Read Your Palm - From a Vending Machine? Wait... What?!

2/23/2016

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Ok, so while researching my post about our Bocca della Verita mascot, I came across this gem.  Apparently, back in the 1980s, a vending machine company had just come up with a new design for a fortune telling machine. They showed off their machine to a prospective Italian client and he loved it--with one catch. They needed to make it look like the Bocca della Verita.

Manufactured by DPS-Promatic in Italy, apparently the idea was a hit because the company claims to have units in countries all around the world.  Apparently, they also make the machine in different versions: Horoscope, Tutankhamen, and a Gypsy. There is a floor standing model and a smaller wall-mounted one.


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Here's a video of how to use it. Stick your hand in the mouth and it will scan the lines of your palm. Wait until it analyzes, then it prints out an ATM style fortune...
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Columbeanu
8/5/2019 08:57:01 pm

Man, we used to have quite a few of these in Romania. Regular carnival stand. It even spoke in Romanian. A thundering (and badly recorded) voice would pout: "PLACE YOUR HAND INSIDE MY MOUTH" (but it was so distorted that from afar it sounded like he was asking for something else placed in his mouth)
My parents never let me try it when i was a kid because it cost around 2 lei (so it was either that or buy me a soda) and we both prefered to buy a soda instead of financing some street-wise scammer.
When I grew up I finally tried it and the dissapointment was massive. In the back of my mind I expected a more ZOLTAR from Big moment, but like you said, the cheap ATM print made me thirsty for a soda.

Still, don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you got till it's gone. Because nowadays they have this cheap knock off which for some reason is more Aztec themed.(oh, yeah, because of the 2012 thing)

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