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Science Fiction Goes Vegas, Baby!

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New Star Wars and Star Trek slot machinesWhile DISCOVER was in Las Vegas last week covering the Consumer Electronics Show, I noticed two science-fiction themed slot machines. The Star Wars machine has been out for about 18 months, the Star Trek machine was only unveiled about six months ago.

Even though my perfectly reasonable request to DISCOVER’s powers-that-be for a small research fund to investigate these machines was mysteriously refused (it’s all office politics here), I still felt obligated to try them out on your behalf, loyal readers, so I pulled up a chair and stuck in my hard-earned.

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January 14th, 2009 Tags: , , , , , ,
by Stephen Cass in Mathematics, Utter Nerd | 3 Comments » | RSS feed | Trackback >