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A Slot Machine That Rewards You With Alcohol

Slot machine? Shot machine? In the case of the BarBot, it’s the same difference. As part of a contest, a collective known as NYC resistor spent 300 hours assembling this slot machine drink dispenser. Each of the three slot wheels has various cocktail ingredients, which tell the drink dispenser what to make after a combination … Continued

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Today’s One-Armed Bandit Wins…Even When You Win

In a 60 Minutes segment this evening, we learned modern slot machines are so well designed that addicts often think they’re winning even when they’re losing. Other users report disliking jackpots (i.e. “winning”) because they slow down the action! Gambling addiction is nothing new, of course, but the hook with tonight’s segment was that modern-day … Continued

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Slot Machine iPhone Dock: Proportionally Less Depressing Than Real Thing

I’ve learned two important things today: I can turn my iPhone into a tiny slot machine, and “appcessory” is a word now. Jackpot Slots—which is both an iPhone app and a dock—just made someone’s tech-savvy grandma very happy. The Jackpot Slots dock costs $40, but that includes the eponymous app that gives you access to … Continued

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Travel Between LA and Vegas Without Fear Or Loathing On The Gambling Train

Now that road-safety laws have tightened up since the ’70s when Fear and Loathing was published, you’ll need to look at alternative transport for your LA-to-Las-Vegas trip if you want to play Hunter S. Thompson while under the influence. A gambling train? Sure, I think Thompson would improve. There are no bats on trains, after … Continued

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The Man Of Steel Is Set To Take Your Last Dime: Superman Joins Internet Gambling Site

When you think of Superman, you might think of altruism coupled with near-limitless power — but do you think of gambling addiction? Apparently you should. Internet casino firm InterCasino has just licensed the Last Son Of Krypton to take your last dollar (but only if you’re outside the United States or can spoof a non-U.S. … Continued

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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. The Dice-o-Matic is basically a seven-foot-tall vertical conveyor belt, which rolls and cycles its dice by carrying them to … Continued

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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. Card counting itself is not illegal, but using a device to help you do so is considered a felony under Nevada gambling laws. Not that casinos are fans … Continued

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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.” For $15, I can’t imagine exactly how good those sensors are—my experience with Jack Potty‘s brand, Safety 1st, has not … Continued

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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 … Continued

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The House Always Knows Who The Final Cylon Is

You might feel dead-on certain that you know who the final Cylon is on Battlestar Galactica — but are you willing to put money on it? Gambling site BetCRIS is taking your bets right now — and they’ve already decided the odds-on favorite to be the last, and maybe most significant, of the secret Cylons. … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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. Nope, there’s no fancy digital roulette table to place our chips upon, and this little wheel … Continued

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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 … Continued

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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 … Continued

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iPhone Oddsmodo: The Chances Cisco will Destroy Apple in Court

I guess it’s only appropriate to throw up an Oddsmodo while the Gizmodo team is busting our asses in the city of sin. So … the news of Cisco suing Apple only broke a couple hours ago and our tech-friendly bookmakers at Bodog already have some lines going. You can wager you hard earned dollars … Continued