One-armed bandits to get makeover: Vegas hopes to lure young adults to Sin City by turning the casinos’ traditional cash cows, Grandma’s slot machine, into edgy video games that appeal to millennials while remaining, of course, cash cows (Page A10).
And they’ll surely succeed, since there’s absolutely no evidence that the famous dictum, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” was somehow null and void during the 1980s.
Error — Soylent Green Cartridge is Empty: Researchers are cooking up a new kind of technology: 3-D food printers. The machines work by squeezing out successive layers of an edible material, like sugar.
Fun fact: Somebody who will want one of these things is being born every minute.
More salt in the wound: While the Boston area deals with piles of snow, the ski area at Stevens Pass is struggling because of unusually light snowfall in the Cascade Range. As of Wednesday, the snow level at Stevens was about half of Boston’s.
It’s bad enough that New England took the Super Bowl. Now they’ve got our snow, too.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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