{"id":27806,"date":"2023-06-12T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27806"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:33:59","slug":"canadian-invents-a-card-sorting-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27806","title":{"rendered":"Canadian invents a card sorting machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary entrepreneur invented a machine to sort out trading cards. He perfected the system over two years, testing and sorting through a million cards from two major players in the collectible games market \u2014 Pok\u00e9mon and Magic: The Gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The success of that prototype allowed me to apply for a grant through the province to build eight more machines,&#8221; Gordon said.<\/p>\n<p>His machine, christened the PhyzBatch-9000, made its way to several game stores across Alberta, allowing the entrepreneur to set up shop with his business partner in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/card-sorting-machine-trading-cards-collectibles-1.6867781\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/card-sorting-machine-trading-cards-collectibles-1.6867781<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Calgary entrepreneur invented a machine to sort out trading cards. He perfected the system over two years, testing and sorting through a million cards from two major players in the collectible games market \u2014 Pok\u00e9mon and Magic: The Gathering. &#8220;The success of that prototype allowed me to apply for a grant through the province &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian invents a card sorting machine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[372],"tags":[1721,1722,1723],"class_list":["post-27806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-magic","tag-pokemon","tag-trading-cards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27807,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}