An RFID-enabled poker table has been created for the chairman of an Australian IT company. Wireless RFID chips, cards individually tagged and high-definition cameras can track every card and every chip in the game.
(RFID-enabled poker table video)
This set-up can even tell which cards will be dealt next. It can record all of the details of a game precisely, without any human intervention; it might be just the thing to keep track of everything that happens in a poker tournament. Sleight-of-hand cheating would be impossible.
I find myself wondering if this system could be used to have humans play against computers directly, rather than just through a video game interface.
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