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Bill Gates And Useless Poker Gadgets

BILL Gates has a touch wall.

It's a 4-foot-by-6-foot touch-screen computer prototype. Gates wants computers in everything, and on everything.

Says Gates: "We're saying it will be absolutely pervasive. When I say everywhere, I mean the individual's office, the home, the living room." The poker room...

While the porn industry looks to adopt the technology, the Poker Anorak clacks his tongue and looks at the must-have poker gadget of the moment: the Heads-Up Challenge.

This machine uses a large touch screen to shuffle, deal, calculate odds, and pay the winner. Gates is all ears.

It's just great. And so long as you only have one friend to play against, it's perfect.

But even better then it is the chance to keep your money for actual poker play and shun these trinkets and trappings.

Or buy it, show your friends and then shove it in the closet with your Automated Poker Dealer, RoboChips and solid gold playing cards.

Take advantage of technology and play online.

Unless you're in the States, in which case you can buy a poker robot and try to impress Bill Gates Bill Gates...

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