Automatic Dice Machine Records 1.3 Million Rolls a Day

And now, an ingenious solution to a problem that you didn't know existed: the Dice-o-Matic can make over a million dice rolls a day, supplying genuinely random results for an email-based card and strategy gaming service. More »

Card Counting iPhone App Could Get Your Legs Broken

You've got to be pretty bold to use your iPhone to count cards in a Vegas casino, especially now that they're on the lookout for such behavior.

Jack Potty, Because Potty Training Wasn't Disgusting Enough

My kid is almost the age where I need to consider potty training incentives. Walmart suggests the $15 Jack Potty toilet/slot machine (get it?) with sensors that "detect a deposit and trigger lights and sounds." More »

Microsoft Surface Debuts For Drunken Vacationers At the Rio in Vegas

Microsoft's following up its initial retail rollout of their Surface Table at AT&T with a slightly sleazier version in Vegas. The Rio is going to get six Surface tables, which allows patrons to order drinks and play mini-games with their buddies. The most interesting is a "Flirt" application, which lets you try your luck electronically with people at other Surface tables without actually going over there and talking to them. How well does vomit come off of these things again? [Surface Blog]

USB Poker Chips, Go "All In" with the Gambling Addiction

Do you love poker? Is your favorite channel The Poker Channel The Travel Channel? Are you wearing sunglasses right now so your co-workers can't tell if you're looking at the screen or the sticky note right beside the computer screen? Will you avoid showering for a week just to test your skin's resistance to bacteria for marathon poker sessions? More »

Obscure Company Launches WM 6, GSM/CDMA Smartphone...in the US...for Gamblers

Interestingly enough, Hop-On, a company once known for making disposable cellphones, has introduced a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone dubbed the HOP2001 that is AT&T and Verizon ready. The phone features dual-mode GSM or CDMA, a 320×240 touchscreen, a 3-Megapixel camera with 10x zoom, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi, 256 MB Flash ROM and 128 MB SRAM, microSD expansion and Telenav compatible GPS. More »

Robot Goat Feeds on Broken Dreams

Gamblers at Tokyo's Edogawa Kyotei boat races have a (better?) solution than just throwing away their losing tickets. Because now, players can feed them to a robot goat. When the ticket is placed up to the goat's mouth, a sensor is tripped, cuing the goat to chomp away at finger ticket stubs. Consuming about 500 tickets a day, the robogoat is intended to bring good luck to gamblers in their next race. Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but if the mascot really worked, the goat wouldn't be eating so many tickets every day. [asahi via pinktentacle]

Giant Dice Rolled Down Mountain to Play Craps

In a huge promotional event, online gambling site Gnuf has helicopter-dropped a pair of giant dice down a mountain in Nuuk, Greenland. Standing about 7 feet tall and weighing in at around 1,200 pounds a pop, each die was constructed like a tank, with its steel frame enclosed by steel sheets, all protecting its surely steel heart. And while we can't condone gambling, we can condone airlifting deadly gigantic dice to be haphazardly flung down a mountainside. You know, purely in the name of scientific interest or an especially slow game of Monopoly. [gnuf]

Bally Pong Makes Gambling Even More Addictive

Atari's Pong is stealing our quarters once again, recently approved for use in a slot machine made by Bally: "Bally Pong." A cabinet decorated with chrome fixtures and retro fonts will be a pretty standard 5-line slot, though featuring two knobs for the 1-in-70 occurrence of a 45-second Pong minigame. And while earnings at this point are "skill based," will expert Pongers see a real payout advantage? More »

iPhone: Place Your Bets. Seriously.

The iPhone may be Apple's new cash cow, but Apple isn't the only one looking to make a quick buck off the hysteria. BetUs is currently willing to help you lose your hard-earned money by offering odds on a variety of crazy launch-day-and-beyond iPhone possibilities. From someone getting trampled (20:1, place 'em now!) to the phone itself malfunctioning, cracking or even spontaneously bursting into flames (150:1), if gambling is your vice and gadgets are your passion, Christmas is here early. The minimum bet is $5, maximum is $10,000. Perhaps a strategic bet could pay for my new iPhone... More »

Roulette Paperweight Soothes Our Gaming Jones

You'd think we Gizmodians would've learned our roulette lesson from our most recent money-losing foray into Las Vegas, but no. We want more, and we want to play the game right here at the desk with this Roulette Paperweight. More »

Harvard Casino Coffee Table

While gambling may be a sinful cause of families falling apart, coffee is a less frowned upon addiction. Enter the $298 Harvard Casino Coffee Table: the perfect balance between City of Sin sensibility and Middle America hypocrisy. While the conservative top layer is comprised of fine oak, the three secret layers below hold roulette, craps and blackjack. It's the perfect setup for when you're gambling with your police buddies and the real cops bust in. More »

Corian Digital Roulette Table Still Takes Your Money, Dignity

Given that the Gizmodo team has returned from Vegas, and the roulette table didn't treat us very well, I figured it would be appropriate to post about this corian digital roulette table.

Corian is a solid surface material composed of acrylic polymer and alumina trihydrate made by DuPont. It is said to be a thermosetting plastic, but can be thermoformed by heating it to 300°F (149°C), allowing unique shapes to be created. Its primary use is for countertops.

The lamp above the table represents the wheel and is essentially a random number generator that will select a winner. Place your bets on the illuminated table and let the random number generator roll. This corian table was designed by Moritz Waldemeyer. –Travis Hudson More »

Start The Kids Off Right with the Mini Horse Racing Track

Some of my fondest memories as a kid included spending time at the horse track while my father gambled away all of my college savings. Man, those were the days—all of the second hand smoke I could handle, for free! This toy is for those less adventurous parent types that still want to expose their children to the basics of gambling. The Mini Horse Racing Track comes with six horse and six interchangeable jockeys, all of which have varying weights that can change the outcome. $120. – Travis Hudson More »

Bodog Taking Bets on PS3

Bodog, the online poker/casino/sports book is known for having betting lines of some odd things—mostly relating to celebrities and reality TV, but now they have created some lines regarding the PS3. Here are the three lines you can bet real money on: More »

Real Life Online Poker—huh?

Yep, it is true. The Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles has opened up an ePoker room. An ePoker room is a real life poker room, but the game is played on digital screens, similar to online poker. Everything is controlled digitally: from the card dealing to the queue to play to the money. More »

Roulette Prediction Device Ready To Rock UK Casinos

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Lose Your Money Easier with Mobile Gambling from Las Vegas Sands

The Las Vegas Sands Corporation is going to be the first Las Vegas hotel company to use mobile gambling in their casinos. The Venetian will be the first casino to ustilize these devices. They will allow persons to play blackjack, roulette, poker and slots for real money on a mobile platform. The gambling devices will be provided by the hotel, but there is a bit of a catch. The Nevada Gaming Commission regulations state that mobile gambling can only take place in public areas of the casino—not in hotel rooms or other private areas. A field trial will begin in the coming months with a full roll-out later this year or early 2007. – Travis Hudson More »

Technology in Las Vegas

It's hard to think of technology in Las Vegas beyond updating the neon lights and the surveillance cameras surveying every pit, but the truth is a lot of time and money goes into developing new products for use in casinos. Take the Table Master by Shuffle Master, at your left, for instance. It's a fully-automated casino: no cards, no dealer, runs 24/7 and can't be cheated. Doesn't sound like very much fun to us, as we're big fans of human interaction, but it might be just the perfect thing for some casinos, or maybe even places like airport lounges. More »

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