U.S. Details Gambling Cases Involving Pro Athletes and Mafia Families

I guess Austin Powers predicts the future:

>Mr. Nocella said the technology also included “specially designed contact lenses and sunglasses to read the backs of playing cards, which ensured that the victims would lose big.”

This technology (in a fictionalized eyepatch form) was the setup of the "I also like to live dangerously" joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkzMA1jrm00

I've wondered about the feasibility of doing something similar with scratch lottery tickets.

The way I envision it working is a customer wearing the magic glasses says they have superstitious beliefs and they need the convenience store clerk to spread the tickets out so that they can 'see the aura' or w.e. of the tickets so they can pick a winning one.

I'm curious if this is even illegal. I assume that somewhere it would be but I bet that in a lot of places it isn't and if you were subtle about it you could get away with it for years.

Of course this all relies on the idea that the sensor is something that fits in glasses, or can be discretely hidden in a broach or something they wear with the video feed displayed on their glasses.

The "specially designed contact lenses" thing in cards depends on pre-marked cards, either a man on the inside doing it before the game or surreptiously marking them during play (some ink on your hand for example that you can sneak on to cards as you see them in play). That or the glasses can just feed you information gathered elsewhere, like from someone with a view of the cards.

They're not x-ray glasses and won't help you with scratch cards. Besides, someone working with a store or bribing a cashier would make way more sense than goofy theatrics about auras.