It appears that three Eastern Europeans have won £1.3 million at London’s Ritz Casino using software which turned their mobile phones into scanners that calculate the roulette ball’s speed and its likely landing place. The origin of the smartphone software has not been unveiled but PDAs with built-in scanners are getting ordinary. British company, Psion Teklogix presented one earlier this month at CeBit.

It is also unclear whether the trio technically broke the law.