Casino pens allow you to gamble-on-the-go

After having nearly lost our shirts at the last few Vegas-based CESs, we swore that we'd never step foot in a casino again. But the persistant poker-pushers are harder to shake than we'd realized, and now they are tempting us with three new "Casino Pens" that promise to re-ignite our latent gambling jones. These writing-tools-of-the-devil (basically an LCD screen glued to the back of a pen) come in three addictive varieties: poker, blackjack, and slots, and manage to cram all the magic of Vegas onto a digital watch-like display. Since there's no real money at stake it's all harmless fun for now — that is until PartyPoker comes out with a networked version capable of draining our bank accounts while we fiddle with it during story meetings.

[Teddy @ Dec 19th 2005 2:37AM]

I play a lot of blackjack and my girlfriend bought me one of these a few months ago. It's ridiculous and is nothing like a real. You can't split, can only double on 11, and there's an infinite number of decks. With those rules you have about a 10% disadvantage, compared to .5% or less on a normal game.