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Make Poker More Challenging By Playing With A Rock Band Drum Kit

Ever spiced up Internet poker by busting out a webcam and turning it into a strip game? Yeah? Well, have you ever done it while using a Rock Band drum kit to control the game? Here’s how. Poker Listings’ Sean Lind figured out a fairly simple way of turning your Rock Band drum kit into…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Mar 4

Crazy RFID-Enabled Poker Table Knows Every Card in the Deck

Australian Andrew Milner built a poker table equipped with RFID chips for every single card and HD cameras to track every movement. His setup can even tell where cards lie in a full, vertical deck. Tiny RFID cards are attached to each card, and movements are monitored with four separate HD cameras, all running into…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 20

MotionX Dice Contains Realistic Dice Physics, Is Free

Fullpower’s just released a free version of their MotionX Poker iPhone app containing just the dice-rolling part of the gameplay. You roll dice by shaking the phone, which is then rendered quite well in 3D. Hell, even Walt “Goatberg” Mossberg loves this thing, and he doesn’t seem like a guy who likes gaming. Our only…

Physics & Chemistry Jason Chen Aug 12

Poker Bot Knows When to Hold ‘Em, Knows When to Fold ‘Em

Looks like the day when we all hang out with robots that smoke cigars, throw back drinks and win all our money in poker is edging closer, now that programmers at the University of Alberta have created a Hold ‘Em-playing software that can beat poker professionals. The Polaris software was pitted against Poker pros like…

Artificial Intelligence Elaine Chow Jul 12

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…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 10

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…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Jun 2

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…

Gadgets Mark Wilson May 7

To Boldly Litigate

Last year Christie’s auction house dropped jaws when it tractor-beamed in more than $7 million in bits for a massive Star Trek auction featuring props, costumes, and a little box to keep your dignity in. Now Brent “Data” Spiner himself has apparently confirmed that some of the items were not authentic. Ted Moustakis got ripped…

io9 Kevin Kelly Dec 28

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 a closer view all the details. The match…

Tech News AddyDugdale Jul 26

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. The…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Oct 19

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. For those unfamiliar with the game, the “dealer button” in Hold’em poker rotates around the table, designating who is in the dealer position.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jun 6

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. This…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 8

Atari Poker Table

There’s poker and there’s Atari and never the twain shall meet—or shall they? This is the ultimate in home rumpus room decor: stripped down, plexiglassed Atari 2600 with joysticks out at every corner of the hexagonal table decorated with Q-Bert and that long-forgotten classic, Space Penis vs. the Clap, pictured here. Get this—it all works!…

Tech News Johnb Nov 25

Make Poker More Challenging By Playing With A Rock Band Drum Kit

Crazy RFID-Enabled Poker Table Knows Every Card in the Deck

MotionX Dice Contains Realistic Dice Physics, Is Free

Poker Bot Knows When to Hold ‘Em, Knows When to Fold ‘Em

iPhone Dice Game Simulates Real Dice Rolling Using Sensors and Physics

Touchscreen Poker Table Antes Up to $30K

USB Poker Chips, Go “All In” with the Gambling Addiction

To Boldly Litigate

Unabomber Beats Polaris in World’s First Man v Machine Poker Game

Real Life Online Poker—huh?

Ultimate Dealer Button

Drink Holdem

Atari Poker Table

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