razer [update2]Razer laptop prototypes stolen at CES

[NumLock21]

One must wonder, how the fudge can they just walk out, with 2 laptops, without being caught. Well here is 1 method...

 

 

[FPSwithaWacomTablet]

On 1/9/2017 at 3:16 AM, Jamtoad said:

or someone's reverse engineering 

There's really nothing to reverse engineer about the laptop though...

[Space Reptile]

On 9.1.2017 at 1:35 PM, AluminiumTech said:

In China and Hong Kong, stealing is highly looked down upon

its not stealing , its copying , thats an honor right? 

[KWelz]

In completely unrelated News: Thermaltake is soon to announce their new 3 screen laptop and projector system.  

[Unhelpful]

On 1/9/2017 at 7:35 AM, AluminiumTech said:

In China and Hong Kong, stealing is highly looked down upon. It's a really big crime for them . It's not something someone would do lightly.

Not stealing designs. It's the home of legal retardation in terms of stealing designs. 

[CTR640]

What were the security doing there?? Stuffing themself with donuts and coffee or what??

Anyway, I don't feel sorry for a scum like Razer.

[79wjd]

7 minutes ago, CTR640 said:

What were the security doing there?? Stuffing themself with donuts and coffee or what??

Anyway, I don't feel sorry for a scum like Razer.

How exactly is Razer scum.....

 

And even the best security in the world will miss something when you have so much foot traffic over such a long period of time. 

[jagdtigger]

29 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

How exactly is Razer scum.....

 

And even the best security in the world will miss something when you have so much foot traffic over such a long period of time. 

In that case slap an RFID inside the units and set up readers at every exit of the building...

[Tieox]

18 minutes ago, jagdtigger said:

In that case slap an RFID inside the units and set up readers at every exit of the building...

Just fit Samsung Note 7 batteries into the prototypes. 

 

 

[Dash Lambda]

2 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

In that case slap an RFID inside the units and set up readers at every exit of the building...

Or just at the exit to the room...

[Lord Beard]

last person saw it was Linus now where is my money?

[NumLock21]

Who ever stole it, you bet they will release a 3 screen monitor laptop or something.

[Guest Kloaked]

I bet you $1 nothing was actually stolen and this was all a marketing ploy. Even if they "catch the person(s) who did it", I'm still under the impression this stuff wasn't actually stolen. There's no fookin' way someone was able to just take those things and walk out with them.

[Bsmith]

6 hours ago, Space Reptile said:

its not stealing , its copying , thats an honor right? 

5 hours ago, JoeyDM said:

Not stealing designs. It's the home of legal retardation in terms of stealing designs. 

In countries like China and Hongkong there is a difference between stealing and copying, the idea of "intellectual property" does not exist there, idea's are free to be copied and improved. taking a physical object/device without permission however is indeed unthinkable there, not even the government does it when it comes down to taking houses from people, they have to leave willingly, otherwise building plans are adapted to the person not moving out and they build around that house.(that seriously happens every now and then)

 

5 hours ago, CTR640 said:

What were the security doing there?? Stuffing themself with donuts and coffee or what??

Anyway, I don't feel sorry for a scum like Razer.

If you have ever been part of any security related matter then you know it's not as easy as it sounds, people don't see 360 degrees and cant pay continuous attention to everything that moves on a busy showfloor, not even in front of a set of TV monitors.

4 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

In that case slap an RFID inside the units and set up readers at every exit of the building...

would be a great idea, the organization(CES) would need to cooperate with it though.

24 minutes ago, Kloaked said:

I bet you $1 nothing was actually stolen and this was all a marketing ploy. Even if they "catch the person(s) who did it", I'm still under the impression this stuff wasn't actually stolen. There's no fookin' way someone was able to just take those things and walk out with them.

mentioned before and by far the worst idea ever for marketing. things like this as "marketing" are more likely to backfire, besides what are they trying to sell here? their name? that's already widely known, just like their products.

[Guest Kloaked]

11 minutes ago, Bsmith said:

mentioned before and by far the worst idea ever for marketing. things like this as "marketing" are more likely to backfire, besides what are they trying to sell here? their name? that's already widely known, just like their products.

Microsoft had the concept for what Razer is calling Project Ariana YEARS ago, yet now most people are probably just now hearing about it. There were concepts for what Razer is calling Project Valerie, and now more people are just now hearing about that idea. Both projects from Razer that aren't original ideas at all. It's free marketing gold. It's a controversy that someone was able to steal these units at CES of all places. People are talking about it, media outlets are writing articles about it.

 

They are trying to sell whatever they can with their name on it. They've now convinced people that Project Valerie and Ariana are Razer's original ideas, which they're not.

 

Just like how Budweiser continues to pay millions and millions of dollars for NFL advertisements, despite that name already being synonymous with sports and drinking - if you don't know anything about alcohol, you go into a gas station and most of what you'll see are Budweiser, a couple other popular brands and then everything else*. Everything else* will look like "cheap off brand stuff" to you. How could Budweiser afford all of that marketing if they weren't any good, right? (Wrong).

 

It's the same concept. The buzz got started with these two concept products that Razer made and they'll probably actually be able to bring at least one of them to the market since people who didn't pay attention to CES will know about these two products - Razer will be able to gauge, for free, how well these products would sell if they made them available for purchase.

[79wjd]

6 hours ago, Bsmith said:

-- more likely to backfire --

5 hours ago, Kloaked said:

-snip-

To add to this, I also don't really see how it could backfire. Let's say it was all a marketing ploy and Razer got discovered....who would actually give a shit? Surely far less people would care (for more than a quarter of a millisecond) that Razer "lied" than the number of people that only heard about it because of the thefts. 

 

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37 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

To add to this, I also don't really see how it could backfire. Let's say it was all a marketing ploy and Razer got discovered....who would actually give a shit? Surely far less people would care (for more than a quarter of a millisecond) that Razer "lied" than the number of people that only heard about it because of the thefts. 

 

Well it would seriously hurt the brand imo.  They would have a reputation for pulling a big scheme and lying

[Space Reptile]

27 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Well it would seriously hurt the brand imo.  They would have a reputation for pulling a big scheme and lying

"oh it dint got stolen after all , it just fell behind the sofa" *laughtrack* *freezeframe* *seinfeild theme*

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8 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

"oh it dint got stolen after all , it just fell behind the sofa" *laughtrack* *freezeframe* *seinfeild theme*

Yeah, no, I don't think it would go over like that.  If there's one thing the internet as a whole is known for, it's hating companies with an undying passion.

[Energycore]

On 1/9/2017 at 9:00 PM, dragoon20005 said:

check CCTV footage will take hours

You can check it at 5x speed though

[Paranoid Kami]

Stuff gets stolen all the time from everywhere. All you can do is get better security and try to catch the person. Don't know why so many people are talking about this so much.

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2 hours ago, Paranoid Kami said:

Stuff gets stolen all the time from everywhere. All you can do is get better security and try to catch the person. Don't know why so many people are talking about this so much.

That sounds like something someone who stole the prototype would say....

/s  

 

I think because:

• it's surprising, given that this shouldn't have been possible, even with poor security
• it's well publicized
• it makes no sense since afaik the "prototypes" didn't actually have any unique or new tech in them, they were just basically visual models
• perhaps other reasons I'm forgetting...

[Justin_]

I think it has been all figured out

OP Anton Ivars

[Justin_]

*Accidental Double Post removed*

 

[AlTech]

7 minutes ago, Justin_ said:

I think it has been all figured out

the image doesn't work. Repost it pls.