I was looking around on the Travel Channel website because there will be an upcoming show featuring Stanford Wong. It does appear that it may be a few months down the road, however. I happened to stumble across this link. It does require that you have Flash installed on your computer.
David
Clever cartoon. The bandaid holding the wires to the legs was funny. Brought back fond memories of when I tried wearing shorts in casinos for a while just to prove I wasn't using a computer.
This is cute but it perpetuates the idea that using your mind to play is cheating!
Why would the computer want or need to differentiate between Tens and face cards?
Also, the toe switching seems awkward. With values of 1 2 3 8, how would you transmit "6?" What tells the computer there's not another "1" coming to indicate a "7?" Would you have to send 338 for six and 3318 for 7? If 8 is the terminator, to send 2, would you have to send 288 or 1188 to differentiate it from Ten? Sorry, but this looks like something designed by whoever designed the programming interfaces for Japanese VCRs.
Why not have the toe switches operate to transmit numbers in binary:
down - down - down - up = 0 0 0 1 = Ace
D D U D = 0010 = 2
D D U U = 0011 = 3
D U D D = 0100 = 4, etc., 4 clicks from either toe per card. This gives 6 additional codes for things like Ignore previous entry (in case of error), Shuffle, Take Insurance?, etc.
Also, I think the manufacturer needs to be reported as being in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act
They were mistaken w/ 1,2,3,8. I'm sure the real values are 1,2,4,8. Lot easer to add these #'s
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