TOUCH-LESS GAMING
The next big thing
Casino International: Christy, tell us about Touch-LESS Gaming please. Christy Lemons: Well, our thoughts crystallised around COVID, that was the start of Touch-LESS Gaming. My background is healthcare; I’ve worked in mental and behavioural health and the pharmaceutical field for the past 20 years. I live in the US in Arizona which borders Nevada, and I’d been an avid slot player since it was legal for me to do so. There was an intersection with my background as a player and a healthcare professional when COVID first hit. When Las Vegas shut down for just the second time in
history I started thinking, how on earth is Las Vegas going to open again? Everything I know about land-based casinos is touch related: you touch the cards, the dice, the slot machines, everything. And, although COVID is the first
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Christy Lemons, founder and CEO of Touch-LESS Gaming, is on a mission to get her invention into casinos everywhere. A product for a mid- and post-COVID world, touchless slot sensor buttons really should be the next big thing
superbug to touch all of us, it’s not going to be the last one. The lingering pandemic has raised our global awareness of germs, infection rates and contact because although COVID is largely an airborne disease, we know that flu and cold germs are spread through touch and there is still uncertainty about the ways that COVID and its variants can spread or linger on surfaces we come in contact with. Gaming’s high-contact environment also adds additional complexities to preventing pathogen spread: when you consider slots or video poker, you need to consider how many people smoke and drink when they are playing when they are allowed to. That means this is not the typical arena where you touch something with a clean hand and then someone else does; this type of player behaviour where people touch their lips, their saliva, and then touch a button (analogue or LCD): when they get up and someone
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