Digitally Peeking Inside a Pack of Pokemon Cards with a CT Scanner [video]

3 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by weystrom
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3 Comments

eschneider

14 hours ago

I used to work on firmware for similar hardware and we'd do this with scratch cards. Ever notice that 'every card is a winner' scratch cards no longer exist? Yeah...

weystrom

14 hours ago

Yeah I guess the card companies will adapt somehow as well (in fact there's a follow-up video on how to discourage this technique [1]), but there's still a huge market for "vintage" cards and packs that will be affected.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxeS6krtdwM

weystrom

14 hours ago

A CT technian has figured out a way to look inside a TCG booster pack and identify rare cards inside without opening it.

This potentially could change the whole collectable market, since you could fish for expensive rares and dump the "dud" packs back on the market.