A Pizza Box for Your Laptop 526
Dark Twonky writes "Human Beans is selling the perfect gift for the geek who has everything. It's the PowerPizza, a pizza box for transporting your precious laptop in. From the web site: Desirable laptops are desirable to thieves too. Disguise your laptop with a PowerPizza and reduce the risk of getting it nicked."
accidents (Score:2, Insightful)
Are the edges padded? (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't see any protective padding at the edges where it's needed.
-- Sally
Re:Translation (Score:1, Insightful)
Why not cut out the middleman... (Score:3, Insightful)
Because everyone walks around with pizza boxes (Score:2, Insightful)
Worlds. Stupidest. Product. (Score:5, Insightful)
If real.
And I can't be asked to do the due diligence to see if it is.
Don't carry it vertically (Score:2, Insightful)
questions? (Score:3, Insightful)
How do you carry a pizza in a box? Horizontally
There's your disguise spoiler right there.
The dumbest idea...ever! (Score:5, Insightful)
Really, how hard is it to pick up a nice black leather or blastic nylon bag that isn't plastered with "TARGUS" logos and just KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE DAMN LAPTOP?
I've owned many laptops for many years and I've never once come close to having it nicked because I tend to pay attention to my surroundings when I'm carrying it with me.
Re:Because everyone walks around with pizza boxes (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Why leave your laptop at all?
When my laptop is not at home I generally don't get that far from it [unless I'm at a friends place or something]. Let's see, 1500$ laptop... 2 seconds to get stolen... hmmm...
Sure would be nice to live in a world where you don't have to lug things like that around but that's why you have to be smart. Don't take your laptop somewhere unless you actually need it. Duh
Tom
Security through Obscurity (Score:2, Insightful)
Go buy a backpack.
Slashdot: News occasionally. Stuff for sale.
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Now I've seen everything (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Back Pack (Score:2, Insightful)
Isn't that what they call socialism?
MacPhoneHome for OS X and PCPhoneHome for Windows (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Stealing textbooks. (Score:1, Insightful)
First: Unless they knew the titles in the bag for a fact, the low probability of being in the same class and needing the books would make random bag-pilfering for textbooks uneconomic risk/reward wise. Reselling the textbooks is difficult when they probably have marks inside identifying the real owner. Someone who just had their textbooks stolen would be a typical customer of a thief who just stole them and would recognise the copy that was stolen.
A thief who would steal textbooks purely for the random knowledge they might contain is hard to imagine.
Inside bags: Wallets, Gizmos/Cds/Laptops/PDAS/Pens/Pencils/theBagItself/ KeysToStuff/Graphing Calculators/Clothes/Prescription Drugs/Illegal Drugs/etc.
Wallets full of Ca$h, Expensive Gizmos, Illegal Drugs and Prescription Drugs that can get you high would most likely top the list of goodies that would most please a thief that stole a bag to find therein. The rest is not that interesting financially.
kinda like the club... (Score:2, Insightful)
I really think thats how this thing was born. I think some slob with a trashcan for a car just started stashing his laptop in one of the many discarded pizza boxes strewn about. At least this is more convincing than those incredibly conspicuous plastic rocks that some people try to stash keys in...
Re:accidents (Score:3, Insightful)
You'd have to be insane a) to trust your $3000 laptop to such a pile of shit and b) pay 12.99GBP for such a pile of shit.
The real question is how much did they pay one of the editors to advertise this crap on /. ?