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iPhone Dice Game Simulates Real Dice Rolling Using Sensors and Physics
This Dice game is by far the coolest game I've seen, and it's got amazing tech inside which takes advantage of the iPhone's sensors like no other app. Here's how it works: You shake the iPhone and it rolls the dice inside, which you use to play poker. But instead of using some dumb random number generator, it captures your hand's motion and rolls simulated collisions between the virtual dice. This game is great but its just a sampling of the tech from Fullpower, the company Philippe Kahn, creator of the camera phone in 1997, has been developing in stealth for 5 years until today. Yes, this is the tip of a giant iceberg full of gadgets exactly aware of what we're doing with them at all times. More »
12:02 PM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Brian Lam
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Latest by 92BuickLeSabre: @th3gh05t: Now I just have to remember to play every day for 2 weeks.... I've got over 4 Million Coins now, but I still can't get a stupid set of five 4s! (I have to admit I haven't done all the more »
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Touchscreen Poker Table Antes Up to $30K
Everyone knows that the casino with the most flash often gets the most business. So, if you are looking to take a few dollars out of your friends' paychecks on Saturday night, lure them over with the X10 Ten Player Automated Poker Table. It features 10 12.1-inch touchscreens for the players and a 27-inch LCD in the center of the table that handles community cards and chip amounts for the entire table. More »
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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?
Then yeah, this 2GB poker chip flash drive is totally worth your $28. Because we both know that when you told all those stories about the "system" you used to make boatloads of cash playing online poker, you were just bluffing. [Product via OhGizmo]
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Unabomber Beats Polaris in World's First Man v Machine Poker Game
It was a hard-fought game, but man just edged it over machine in what was billed as the "First Man-Machine Poker Championship." Phil Laak, also known as the Unabomber, and Ali Eslani battled it out against Polaris, a software program, for a purse of $50,000. Click for
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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 »
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Ultimate Dealer Button
With the Texas Hold'em poker craze sweeping the nation and turning our youth into little cigarette-smoking, whiskey-chugging gamblers, there has to be room for some gadgets, right? Welcome the Ultimate Dealer Button. More »
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Drink Holdem
If you've spilled one too many brewskis all over the poker table, you need the Drink Hold em, a better way to keep that drink out of harm's way while you bluff that sucker across the table. It has an adjustable sleeve to accommodate a variety of sizes of cans, bottles glasses and cups. More »
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