{"id":247,"date":"2004-12-13T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/247"},"modified":"2004-12-13T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:16:02","slug":"history-repeats-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/247","title":{"rendered":"History repeats itself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring things like the wrist watch, the earliest wearable computer was built back in 1961 by Ed Thorp (father of the theory of card-counting in Blackjack) and Claude Shannon (father of information theory) to answer a question that had plagued mankind for generations: <em>is there any way I can cheat reliably at roulette?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now over 43 years later, history repeats itself yet again as a treo has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/news\/editorial\/10360809.htm\">walked away with more than $2.3 million<\/a>, allegedly having used a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/londonnews\/articles\/15125756?source=Evening%20Standard\">cellphone rigged with a laser range-finder<\/a> to up their odds of winning from 1 in 37 to about 1 in 6. Police have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/news\/editorial\/10360809.htm\">dropped the investigation<\/a> after deciding there was no interference with the ball in play. (That wouldn&#8217;t fly in Vegas, where laws were put in place after wearables users in the &#8217;70s spooked casinos.)<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Steve Schwartz for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring things like the wrist watch, the earliest wearable computer was built back in 1961 by Ed Thorp (father of the theory of card-counting in Blackjack) and Claude Shannon (father of information theory) to answer a question that had plagued mankind for generations: <em>is there any way I can cheat reliably at roulette?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now over 43 years later, history repeats itself yet again as a treo has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/news\/editorial\/10360809.htm\">walked away with more than $2.3 million<\/a>, allegedly having used a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/londonnews\/articles\/15125756?source=Evening%20Standard\">cellphone rigged with a laser range-finder<\/a> to up their odds of winning from 1 in 37 to about 1 in 6. Police have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/news\/editorial\/10360809.htm\">dropped the investigation<\/a> after deciding there was no interference with the ball in play. (That wouldn&#8217;t fly in Vegas, where laws were put in place after wearables users in the &#8217;70s spooked casinos.)<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Steve Schwartz for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wearable-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}