There aren't a lot of new technological advances that gaming really needs, execept of course a small, light, PDF reader that supports searching and labled bookmarking plus highlighting to make it easier to tote around PDF copies of rules and look up things in a hurry, but there is one gadget I'd like to see someone invent and make a version for that could go on a game table.

An automatic fart detector/indicator/neutralizer.

Seriously, sometimes after we've all had our chips and dig (liberally laced with garlic, of course) some people I won't name turn into rapid fire automatic fart cannons.

Now to cover up their intestinal indiscretions, some of them have perfected the SBD and/or the one cheek sneak, and as soon as anyone makes a comment they reply with "He who smelt it dealt it" or "He who speaks reeks".

So they always manage to claim innocence by blaming the guy next to them, even if he's just passed out cold or retching violently from the stench. (They claim he's faking to blame them.)

So I'd like a little gadget you could stick on a table that would, thru ultra sensitive acoustic and chemical sensors, automatically and infallibly determine exactly who around a table farts and shines a laser designator right on them to make it utterly impossible for them to deny it after they supply it.

Also, if they could work out the tech, maybe there could put on a special sensor to detect the really rancid ones, you know, the ones that take paint off miniatures, melt dice and fade the covers on your gaming hardbacks, and if it detects a real "poison gas attack" it could automatically deploy countermeasures to protect the people around the table, like releasing air fresheners, odor neuutralizers, turning on an overhead fan, activating an air ionizer or even deploying air masks like planes do in emergencies.

I'm really waiting for someone to invent something like this, it could make some game nights much more pleasant.

So is there any piece of technology you'd like to see in games someday, like maybe flat thin video tech that could turn a whole tabletop into a morphable display? That would be nice, if it was tought enought o take the rigors of having coke, pizza, dice and hardbocks set on it...

Wow.
Dominus, I salute you for the problems you seem to have.
I´m impressed.

I want a Roomba-like automated cat-kicking robot, for keeping the little bastards away from the gaming table. Their stupid owners obviously aren't able to do that.

GasBGon - Flatulence Filter Seat Cusions.

Sorry your group actually needs these, but now you need what to get them for Christmas.

QuoteSo is there any piece of technology you'd like to see in games someday, like maybe flat thin video tech that could turn a whole tabletop into a morphable display? That would be nice, if it was tought enought o take the rigors of having coke, pizza, dice and hardbocks set on it...

Here's the other item on your wish list: Digital Map Projection

I'd like it to be cost effective to do high quality, low quantity print runs on playing cards and boardgame pieces.

Quote from: StuartGasBGon - Flatulence Filter Seat Cusions.

Sorry your group actually needs these, but now you need what to get them for Christmas.

Sure, if you just want to just mask the problem. But if you are looking to play the blame game, and face it who isn't, this will work.

P.S. You might want to suggest they take a look into their diets, or perhaps review your snack selection if you actually want to solve the problem.