The first wearable computer may have been used to cheat on roulette. It would give you a chance of beating the house because it could predict with better accuracy than random where that ball is going to land. In many ways, our kind of small wearable computers or even phones that act as minish computers can look to Shannon's portable roulette computer and a sort of distant ancestor.

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