Edward O. Thorp

And this was different.

I mean, I think a lot of people had heard about Ed Thorpe's adventure into the casino.

Um, and, um, and there may, maybe have, may have been others as, as well.

Um, but talk a little bit about the, the, the, the kind of the difference.

Because, because they rely on technology, uh, for their income, uh, and because they're doing things that mainstream software and computing isn't really built for, they've always been quite creative with the use of technology.

The, the world's first wearable computer was made in the 1960s by Ed Thorp, who invented card counting.

It was a roulette prediction machine and it's still on display at MIT.

And it's an amazing thing.

It's kind of an untold chapter of tech history.

If you go to the MIT Museum in Massachusetts, the world's first wearable computer is on display there.

And it was built by Ed Thorpe, who was a card counter.

And it was built to measure the speed of the ball and the wheel in roulette, to try and beat roulette in a casino.

And, you know, it looks a little clunky now, but that was made in the 1960s.

Yeah.

Signal signal theory.

I think him hanging around and, uh, Ed Thorpe.

We're all friends about that, about that same time, which is, and then it's like a Mount Rushmore brains right there.

Yeah.