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High Roller Takes Melbourne Casino For $33 Million With Security Camera Hijack
Australia’s biggest casino was taken for $32 million, when its own security cameras were used against it by a high-roller who managed to hijack the surveillance systems.
Live Out Your Gambit Fantasies With Sharpened Steel Throwing Cards
You can try as hard as you want, but a set of adamantium claws are never going to spring forth from your hands. Nor will you ever be able to control the weather, fly, teleport or read someone’s mind. The closest you’ll ever get to being a real-life X-Men is mastering this set of steel throwing cards like Gambit, minus the fireworks and bō.
Rain Man’s Finally Met His Match With This Blackjack-Dealing Robot
If you thought Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man character took a cold, calculating approach to gambling, he’s got nothing on Yaskawa Motoman Robotics’ new SDA10F blackjack dealing robot. Using a sophisticated vision system it’s even able to recognise the cards it’s dealing, so casinos could still use their standard Bicycle decks.
Here Are The Business Cards Of Famous People
Even though business cards seemed like they would be one of the first things to get killed by some fancy techwiznology, they’ve managed to survive even though the use of dead paper is dying. Everybody has business cards — even the super rich and super famous. Here are a few business cards from people you definitely already know.
Here’s A Simple Card Trick You Can Learn In A Minute
Our friends at BoingBoing put together a video to show you a simple and fun card trick that anyone can learn in no time: Using a deck of playing cards, make three piles of three cards each. Flip a pile over to note the bottom card and then combine all three piles into one, making sure that the pile you flipped over is on top. After that, spell out the card you saw.
Windows 98 Solitaire Deck Immortalises Our Most Important Pre-Internet Distraction
Is $US20 too much for a deck of playing cards styled to look exactly like the pixelated designs in Windows 98 Solitaire? Not a chance. As their creator Evan Roth points out, before the internet Solitaire was the only real distraction an office drone could rely on. So why not give it the respect and immortalisation it deserves with this lovely deck printed on genuine Bicycle playing cards?
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