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)
Re:accidents (Score:4, Funny)
Those pizza boxes get double/triple/quadruple checked in case there is the slightest remnant of cheese left before they are reluctantly chucked into the gaping bin.
And besides who's going to throw away a significantly heavier than usual box without checking inside?
Re:accidents (Score:3, Insightful)
You'd have to be insane a) to trust your $3000 laptop to such a pile of shit and b) pay 12.99GBP for such a pile of shit.
The real question is how much did they pay one of the editors to advertise this crap on /. ?
Unless... (Score:5, Funny)
Exactly (Score:4, Informative)
The thief wants pizza, is fairly confident that the Pizza company is too busy to report the theft and in all likelihood would never dream of stealing a laptop.
-S
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
There is some prior art. During the cold war, spies would put materials exchanged at drop points inside of dead animals. The US imported their own dead rats from America, because apparently dead communist rats couldn't be trusted with the secrets of the free world.
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Exactly (Score:5, Funny)
Back Pack (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Back Pack (Score:3, Funny)
Or you could leave it in the DELL box. That would keep any informed thieves away. :)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Back Pack (Score:2)
Dunno how they knew there were goodies inside, but there was a laptop-theft-ring operating in Huntsville at the time...
Re:Back Pack (Score:2)
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Why leave your laptop at all?
When my laptop is not at home I generally don't get that far from it [unless I'm at a friends place or something]. Let's see, 1500$ 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
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Back Pack (Score:2)
Though I've been lucky. I've caught people eyeing the case from time to time but nobody has ever reached for it or nothing.
People always misjudge that about Canada. We're polite [to your face] and generally non-violent. But the second you turn your back someone is there to steal all your belongings.
Re:Back Pack (Score:5, Insightful)
Label it as something nobody wants (Score:4, Funny)
this'll work (Score:4, Funny)
he'll take it home and be pissed off he only got a laptop.
Re:this'll work (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but you're in trouble when he realizes a simple fact:
1 laptop = LOTS of pizzas!!!
So he starts thinking of ways to enjoy this "free prize":
a) He sells it and gets an extra money for pizzas
b) He steals your passwords, credit card numbers, and orders a pizza with your account (keep the change, you filthy animal). Of course he gets in trouble because he ordered the pizza with "extra anchovies" [imdb.com].
c) He calls you and asks for a reward for "finding a laptop that some guy dropped"
d) He calls you and asks for a delicious quantity of money "if you want to keep your data alive and healthy. And don't call the cops"
e) b) and c)
f) b) and d)
g) He backs up your porn folder and sets up a paid website using your credit card, to earn more money.
h) He backs up all your data and starts blackmailing you when he finds out that besides a porn folder, you also have online dates, AND you're married.
i) He finds out that you're involved in some illegal activity, and he asks for the double. In case you want to kill him, he published all this data in his personal internet harddrive, and sets up a script to publish all of it on his blog if he doesn't cancel it in 14 days.
j) Instead he blackmails your g/f and asks her to pose naked for him, or else he'll tell your wife. THEN he uses your credit card to setup a website, giving away the video of your g/f AND publishing your name (just because he felt like it!).
k) He gives the laptop (with wireless internet) to a hacker friend of his, and do all kinds of nasty illegal stuff.
l) Among the nasty illegal stuff, he defaces the PowerPizza website, mentioning how they made money with the laptop they stole thinking it was a pizza.
m) He writes all these experiences in his blog [slashdot.org] and the Hollywood guys buy him the script for "Home alone 4: Pizza Powered".
n) All of the above. The possibilities are endless!
Lesson: DON'T use the powerpizza box. It's not worth it.
Re:this'll work (Score:3, Funny)
Re:this'll work (Score:2)
Translation (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Translation (Score:2)
"Nappy" is pretty much always used, but I like 'diaper' is starting to replace it, with all this Americanization [wikipedia.org]. I don't like either words very much, to be honest.
And I think more people drink Coffee than Tea, really. I, for one, hate Tea.
Maybe insightful, probably not.
Re:Translation (Score:3, Informative)
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
Instead of Theives (Score:2, Funny)
2. Put laptop on Ebay.
3. Profit!
Oh wait, I need a ??? in there somewhere...
Re:Instead of Theives (Score:3, Informative)
1. Steal underpants.
2. ??????
3. Profit!
It's obvious when you think about it.
Backpack (Score:2)
While the pizza box concept is neat to a point I can't imagine putting all the items I need into it and it doesn't seem to be designed for it. Really, who only carries their laptop in their laptop bag?
Domino's (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Domino's (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, I see I have found another, former, lotus notes admin -- that is, I pray to god you're a "former." If not, then god bless you my son....
Re:Domino's (Score:2)
You never tasted REAL Pizza, Pizza made from fresh dough instead of frozen platters of four and water. Pizza made from decent sauce instead of the slightly flavored tomato paste Dominoes uses.
You've never had REAL Pizza.
Are there any small pizzerias left in your neighborhood? Remember, if you buy for the fastest delivery time or closest location, you are NOT getting the best pizza.
Re:Domino's (Score:3, Interesting)
Ordered 8pm.
Pizza arrived 8.45pm. Almost cold.
Delivery boy had to go back to the shop to authorize the credit card as he couldn't do it. 20 minutes later, sign slip.
Pizza (one of the new ones with the cheese layer in the middle) tasted like cardboard, was now cold, and cost about 50% more than the pizza hut a mile away...
Are the edges padded? (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't see any protective padding at the edges where it's needed.
-- Sally
Why not cut out the middleman... (Score:3, Insightful)
Because everyone walks around with pizza boxes (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Because everyone walks around with pizza boxes (Score:3, Insightful)
So thieves just... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:So thieves just... (Score:3, Informative)
Look for people walking around with pizza boxes tucked under their arms... That's what'll end up happening after people get tired of carrying their laptop around like it's a pizza.
Especially since your average sized laptop ways 6-8 pounds, which is quite a bit more that your average pizza. It would be like holding a gallon bucket full of water out at arms length.
Just out of curiousity, how would this thing work when travelling by air? Would airport security just let go by with it? What about when y
yeah... (Score:2)
Worlds. Stupidest. Product. (Score:5, Insightful)
If real.
And I can't be asked to do the due diligence to see if it is.
Re:Worlds. Stupidest. Product. (Score:2, Informative)
"Spam: from Human Beans. An exhibition of fictional products"
So your right, it's fictional, but also funny.
Free food for relativly no work = good idea. (Score:3, Funny)
Not only do you make profit on every one, you get free food. If someone would hire me to do one of these a day, I'd never have to worry about food again. I imagine the entire "case" takes about 15 minutes to make (excluding pizza eati
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.
Bad service (Score:2, Funny)
This reminds me.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This reminds me.... (Score:2)
I had a Packard Bell in college
Re:This reminds me.... (Score:2)
~D
Re:This reminds me.... (Score:5, Funny)
Fictional Products (Score:2)
I'll stick with my backpack, and never letting it out of my site...
Worst. Invention. Ever. (Score:2)
and increase the risk of someone throwing it into the trash?
Yeah, so... (Score:2, Funny)
Hint : a guy handling a real pizza usually does not carry it vertically under his arm...
"There goes another executive lunchbox"!!! (Score:3, Interesting)
A full-swing marketing campaign was launched, so no one would be ignorant of what those "executive lunchboxes" looked like.
The result was predictable: EVERYONE knew when some white-collar worker was bringing his lunch to the office, thus triggering the same social stigma as if he were carrying a blue-collar lunchbox, as blue-collar workers would laugh with a big "THERE GOES ANOTHER EXECUTIVE LUNCHBOX!!!" whenever they saw one.
The phrase eventually became a Madison Avenue monicker to designate a marketing failure...
Coincidence (Score:2)
I just bought one of these from Pizza-a-gogo but I paid only £7.50 and got a free meat feast pizza with it!
lan parties? (Score:2)
Security via Obscurity? (Score:2)
Now, as a Geek Gift I think this has real potential - but in that "case" they really should have gotten this out before Christmas.
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Yeah, I do crazy stuff like that here [blogspot.com] too ;-)
Mirror (Score:2)
This reminds me of a SNL commercial. Its a broken down pile of crap for a car, but the inside is super luxurious. No one wants to steal a beatup car, so you can live the luxurious life without worrying about theft. Yeah, but you look like a retard.
How would you feel bringing a pizza box to the boardroom of a fortune-500 company in an attempt to sell you product to executives. Funny idea, incredibly stupid to go through with it, though.
Something doesn't seem right.... (Score:2)
Something about a link to "Fictional Products" on the top of the page doesn't exactly instill confidence in the product.
Not that it won't stop a thousand
whatabout the other way round (Score:2, Funny)
Might it not increase the risk? (Score:2)
Of course, once he realized he didn't get no grub, he would kill you.
2 things. (Score:2)
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.
Don't need no steenking case... (Score:3, Interesting)
I saw a guy on the plane the other day who I thought had the right idea: He didn't have a case - just stuck the notebook in the seat-back pocket.
I got a big anti-static bag from one of the lab techs that should be sufficient to protect it from such "weather" as it might encounter, and I figure to keep the power brick in my purse/pocket/whatever...
Laptop cases are an anachronism.
That's right... (Score:2)
"Hey why do you have a pizza box on your back?" (Score:2)
Yeah... basically I think I'd just be embarrassed to walk to any place with a pizza box that wasn't my home or the home of a friend. Actually, the walking between homes with the pizza box would be embarrassing too. My natural habit to hold the box sideways might also attract unwanted attention. I don't even want to consider taking the thing into a coffee place or restaurant.
I can just see some bloke at
Interesting in cars (Score:2)
And anyway, no-one said you should leave your laptop unattended when it is inside this pizza box. Where I live people don't break into cars to steal pizza boxes, but they _do_ to steal laptops.
Z
Old news but here's some ideas (Score:3, Funny)
I had done a story on my website [adzoox.com] about it back in July.
I proposed that people use tampon boxes for their iPods too.
Eventhough mentioning the Bible doesn't go over well with the
Even if they can't read or are not religios they know what a Bible is.
Re:Old news but here's some ideas (Score:2)
If I was in the mood to steal some things out of parked cars, I'd probably take the Bible, too.
Re:Old news but here's some ideas (Score:2)
Everyone knows it's wrong to steal.
Most everyone, even those who don't believe in God, know the 10 commandments.
They MAY look at the Bible and pause to think a second.
Re:Old news but here's some ideas (Score:2)
I understand what you're saying, though. It's not entirely unlike telling your name to your kidnapper or a mugger. If they see you as a human being or have even the remotest sympathy for your situation, it reduces your chances of being physically harmed.
Of course, churches get robbed anyway. So while it might work on some would-be criminals, it certainly wouldn't deter everyone.
Damn It! (Score:2)
On recovery from theft... (Score:3, Interesting)
GMail wouldn't do it, even though there's no threat to user privacy here: the police are the only ones getting information, and that information was requested by the owner of the account.
That got me thinking: someone (laptop manufacturers) should run a phone-home service, that keeps a log of the IP addresses that send in requests (with an authentication string specific to the user or computer). That way, using that same string and a password, you could get a list of all the IP addresses your machine has connected to the Internet from... which could be turned over to the police if necessary. If you trust the site explicitly, you could even run an applet that will respond to remote instructions (including flashing the BIOS with a "THIS IS STOLEN PROPERTY" message on bootup) when the site's notified that it is stolen. Once laptops start including onboard GPS, this would make recovery a snap.
This won't do anything to deter sophisticated thieves, who will start formatting drives, but it would be cheap to implement and would provide another layer of protection from theft.
Re:On recovery from theft... (Score:5, Interesting)
Without a court order, Google has no way of knowing that the laptop was actually stolen. You (and your buddy in the PD), may be running a scam, or trying to stalk someone.
That got me thinking: someone (laptop manufacturers) should run a phone-home service,
Some do [inspice.com]
Once laptops start including onboard GPS,
/.ers will scream that the EvilGummint(tm) is trying to track everyone.
Re:On recovery from theft... (Score:2)
You need to have the police contact them with a court order. Gmail shouldn't do this on someone say-so. However if a court gives the order they must.
Re:On recovery from theft... (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh yeah (Score:2)
Yeah right (Score:2)
Security through Obscurity (Score:2, Insightful)
Go buy a backpack.
Slashdot: News occasionally. Stuff for sale.
Other Solutions (Score:2, Interesting)
Pointless for anti-theft (Score:2)
Of course, the real hilarity ensues when you bring your pizza box with a laptop in it with y
Please take note of the "fictional products" link (Score:2)
Now I've seen everything (Score:5, Insightful)
It works great... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh.. yeah.... right.. a drunken roomate actually throwing something away!! LOL!.. nevermind...
Re:It works great... (Score:3, Funny)
Mine did. Two words: Projectile vomiting. Had pretty good aim, too.
Nuff said, I guess.
Sides? (Score:2)
Stupid...
Text of the PowerPizza page... (Score:2)
Police Hat Desirable laptops are desirable to thieves too. Disguise your laptop with a PowerPizza and reduce the risk of getting it nicked.
Be safe & protected
When secured your laptop is prevented from movement and the box can be held at any angle. The PowerPizza box is fully lined with 10mm of protective foam.
New and Impoved design design
Based on our customers feedback we've been working on our recipe. Powerpizza is now lighter, quicker and easier to use.
It's in the "Fictional Products" section (Score:2, Informative)
What an easy to steal idea... (Score:2)
Hell, if this is a real concern DONT LEAVE THE LAPTOP WHERE IT WILL GET STOLEN.
This is a case of identifying a legitimate need and developing a solution that meets the need that is just dumb.
Considering (Score:2)
I'll have a large... (Score:2, Funny)
Less stealth, more deterrent (Score:3, Interesting)
It looks like that's what's holding it together.
Plus it looks different from all of the other laptops going through security, making it easy for me to keep my eye on it.
If someone's going to lift laptops, they'll move along to one that looks less like a piece of s...junk.
Oh, and I also keep my bag with me everywhere except the security checkpoint.
Don't pizzas get stolen? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't pizzas get stolen? (Score:3, Funny)
However, if I had to choose between being anally raped and stealing and eating a Dominos' "pizza", I'd chose the rape.
Liar (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hmmmm (Score:2)
Weeeee-ooooohh (Score:2)
You RTFA, dumbass (Score:2)
Owned.
Re:Idiot poster (Score:2, Informative)
Re:What about out of sight, out of mind? (Score:2)