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March 22, 2007

 
  A winning card  
  Las Vegas-based FortuNet Inc. chose Ascend Media’s BingoWorld 2007 Conference & Expo—held in Las Vegas in early March—for the unveiling of a number of the company’s new products.

The Smart Ball Blower (patent application pending) is a fully automatic, hands-free ball blower for bingo, keno and lottery applications. The device uses the company’s barcoded Smart Balls, which are automatically extracted from a transparent ball mixing chamber. The balls are then stored in a transparent, pressurized ball return pipeline until the round of the game finishes.

A new LED keno flashboard was also featured at BingoWorld. The product uses a super-bright, jumbo-sized multicolor LED display, which works in conjunction with the Smart Ball Blower and FortuNet’s live keno game (available on the company’s wireless gaming platform).

A new multi-theme slot game—also executed on the wireless gaming platform—was also unveiled at the conference. The game further expands the menu of various bingo and casino games available on the wireless platform, which is currently undergoing review by Nevada gaming authorities.

Darby Harris