April 28, 2005 6:15 AM PDT
Tags, you're it in new Vegas casino
With the gala opening-night bash winding down at the Wynn Las Vegas resort, it's time to turn on the chips inside the chips.
The casino inside the new $2.7 billion, 2,700-room blue-tinted structure has adopted high-tech radio tags to help keep track of its betting chips. "Securitywise, it will be huge for us," Rick Doptis, vice president of table games for the Wynn, told CNET News.com earlier this year.
Located at the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip, hard by the Bellagio and Treasure Island, Steve Wynn's gaming-and-good-times venue is also just a short walk from the Las Vegas Convention Center, better known in years gone by as the home of Comdex--now canceled for a second straight year.
Jonathan Skillings is managing editor of CNET News, based in the Boston bureau. He's been with CNET since 2000, after a decade in tech journalism at the IDG News Service, PC Week, and an AS/400 magazine. He's also been a soldier and a schoolteacher. E-mail Jon.
