I Guess We Have All Herd Of Blind Dating,

well this is a different version of that,

well it is the same, except a vending machine takes the place of your friend,

 the “Fate Capsule” is a vending machine outside BT Reptile, a small pet store in Kowloon’s Shek Kip Mei neighborhood, it’s basically a multi-tiered vending machine with separate compartments for men and women which dispenses colored plastic capsules containing the contact details of singles looking for love, all you have to do is insert HK$20 ($2.5) in coins, and it will spit out a fate capsule with the description and contact information of a prospective date,

 the romantic vending machine was brought to Hong Kong by Ben Tang, the owner of BT Reptile, after originally seeing the same concept become popular in Taiwan, He is also the one who, along with his girlfriend, spends up to five hours vetting people who want their details added into the fate capsules, so leave your information – name, age, height, weight, hobbies, and a short self-introduction – in a Google document, the link to which is on his Facebook page, and he will then contact them on WeChat to verify that they are who they claim to be and to make sure “they don’t act too weirdly”, which sort of makes sense,

above is the video, although not in English I am sure the computer savvy will work out what is going on, Tang launched the Fate Capsule vending machine just before Valentine’s Day, and it soon became a huge hit, local news stations started writing about it, videos of people trying their luck with fate capsules spread on social media, and soon, the owner had to limit the number of capsules sold per day, just to maintain the romantic character of his device, “I can easily sell more than 1,000 capsules every single day if I want to,” Ben Tang told Coconuts Hong Kong, “But I’d rather not. I like to see people come by casually when they are free; It feels more destined.” while the vending machine is unlikely to ever challenge the supremacy of popular online dating apps like Tinder, it’s clear that some people consider the Fate Capsule idea a cute, so if you are single and looking for a date, would you try it?