Dealers looking out for smartwatch cameras
By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun
Decades before Apple sold watches and before the kids in the ’70s wore Casio calculators on their wrists, comic strip detective Dick Tracy used a precursor of the smartwatch to fight crime.
Today, however, officials at Nevada casinos are concerned that smartwatches will be used illegally to cheat at table games. A note in a Harrah’s October employee newsletter reminded casino workers that smartwatches with cameras are forbidden.
Smartwatch cameras can be hard to see because they often aren’t there. Cameras are not a popular feature in this category of consumer electronics.
