Ah, casinos- the place where we all go in hopes of getting lucky but usually leave broker than we came in. With the economy still struggling to recover after a near recession, the gambling industry has remained steadily profitable despite the fact that many people were losing their rent and grocery money in slot machines and on table games. Your odds of walking away a winner may have been significantly increased though if you had your Google Glass in tow.

Highlighted as being a next-generation and pretty costly item with a $1,500 price tag (News - Alert), Google Glass boasts multiple capabilities including letting you take a picture by simply saying “take a picture,” record anything that tickles your fancy hands-free, and even share what you are seeing with friends, family and colleagues in real-time. Hence, its robust functionalities make it pretty obvious why casino managers in Atlantic City have just banned the device from entering their facilities.

According to a recently published report, New Jersey regulators are permitting 12 casinos to forbid the gadget now and until the unforeseeable future. “For example, if these eyeglasses were worn during a poker game, they could be used to broadcast a patron’s hand to a confederate or otherwise be used in a collusive manner,” the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement commented in an advisory.

The bigger question this interesting scenario has yielded is what other types of companies will soon be outlawing this offering? Looking at the sports vertical, what type of unfair advantage would an athlete on say a major league baseball team like the Yankees have if they were to be wearing a pair of Google (News - Alert) Glass when the ball was flying towards them? Would the product enable them to rapidly figure out what type of swing to exert in order to hit the ball farther than ever before? Switching gears, how would the device benefit people who stalk celebrities and make money off of photos of them, known as paparazzi? It is highly likely that their profits would drastically increase as it would become much easier to snap those unflattering shots in a shorter period of time.

 Our resident mobile and wearable tech guy at TMCnet, Tony Rizzo (News - Alert), notes that, "Certainly in the case of casinos, sports and other related activities there will always be a suspicion that someone may be cheating - and unfortunately the odds are pretty darn good that someone will in fact be doing so. So that one very probable bad apple requires all of us will to play by rules that eliminate the use of such tech in all such circumstances. Of course, once the technology becomes nearly invisible down the road we'll have to resort to sophisticated device scanning and counter-surveillance! It's no different than the fact that we now must test for enhanced performance drugs at every turn. It's unfortunate, but it is the reality we live in."