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Harrah's Rolls Dice on Surface

Posted Jun 12, 08 12:27 PM CDT in Arts & Living Technology 

(Newser) – A Las Vegas casino has become the first to roll the dice with the much-touted Microsoft Surface, a touch-screen table that lets gamblers order drinks, watch YouTube videos, and even flirt. Harrah’s Rio hotel yesterday installed 6 of the tables, which start at $10,000, the AP reports. “Of all the goodies up our sleeves lately, this is one of the most dramatic,” said a Harrah’s spokesman.

The table comes fully loaded with programs like “Mixologists,” which lets patrons invent their own drinks and order them, and “Flirt,” which allows for cross-table chatting, about, you know, whatever. “The range of opportunities are fairly limitless,” the spokesman said. “In a different point in my life, I might use Flirt a lot.”

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Microsoft launches the Surface touch-screen game table at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Harrah's Chief Information Officer Tim Stanley demonstrates the Microsoft Surface touch screen game table at the Rio hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
Microsoft launches the Surface touch screen game table at the Harrah's owned Rio hotel and casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.   (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)
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