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11-11-08, 01:52 PM
South Korean prosecutors said Tuesday they have arrested three men for making and selling marked playing cards which can be read with specially designed contact lenses.
The three allegedly manufactured and sold 26,400 sets of the cards over the past year and exported their technology to China for handsome sums, the prosecutors said.
Their product was so popular that a set of 12 packs of the marked cards sold for as much as one million won (739 dollars) and drew an order from the United States.
The suspects are also accused of smuggling 2,000 pairs of specially designed contact lenses from China, with which their marked cards can be read.
The backs of the cards were marked with patterns and figures printed in special fluorescent pigment. These can be read with the special lenses to show what kind of hand another player is holding.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081111/tod-south-korea-arrests-three-for-marked-7f81b96.html
Very clever idea IMHO.
The three allegedly manufactured and sold 26,400 sets of the cards over the past year and exported their technology to China for handsome sums, the prosecutors said.
Their product was so popular that a set of 12 packs of the marked cards sold for as much as one million won (739 dollars) and drew an order from the United States.
The suspects are also accused of smuggling 2,000 pairs of specially designed contact lenses from China, with which their marked cards can be read.
The backs of the cards were marked with patterns and figures printed in special fluorescent pigment. These can be read with the special lenses to show what kind of hand another player is holding.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20081111/tod-south-korea-arrests-three-for-marked-7f81b96.html
Very clever idea IMHO.