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A Pizza Box for Your Laptop
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."
And when the pizza gets thrown in the garbage...
Looks cool, but ...
I don't see any protective padding at the edges where it's needed.
-- Sally
Asshat is American for dopey limey bastard... I mean brit.
...and buy a pizza for that much. Or better yet, buy the pizza and ask for a spare box. Some acoustic foam and velcro, and you're good to go.
Wouldn't carrying a pizza box everywhere look more suspicious than carrying a bag around?
If real.
And I can't be asked to do the due diligence to see if it is.
To prevent some finger pointing and laughing it'd be best to carry this "Pizza Case" horizontally - which would be a real pain and kind of limits this carrying case usefulness.
How do you carry a laptop in a bag? Vertically
How do you carry a pizza in a box? Horizontally
There's your disguise spoiler right there.
- Putting your PowerPizza in a carrier bag will not only increase the level of disguise - it'll keep it dry too.
And how awkward would it be to walk around carrying a pizza box? If you tucked it under your arm, people would know it wasn't a pizza. If you walked around with it held in a proper pizza manner that would suck too.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.
Wrong question.
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
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
What, nobody points out what a bad idea this is? Besides, I can't see the point. In the first place, lugging that thing around can't be comfortable. Also, if by some deviant twist in reality these stupid things become popular, it no longer does anything but describe the owner as someone who pays thirteen pounds for some cardboard and eggshell foam.
Go buy a backpack.
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Hell, even if I am in an air port or sitting down somewhere if the back pack (that has my laptop in it ) is not on my back I will place my leg though one of the shoulder straps while it rests on the ground just in case some trys to run up and snach it while it is sitting on the ground and I am eating that fine airport cuisine.
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How on earth did this get slashdotted? This is pure Fark fodder and nothing more. Are they letting the dog post?
If you've spent any time on a college campus, nondescript heavy bags are just as likely to be stolen as laptop bags, because the nondescript heavy bags are likely to have very expensive textbooks in them.
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. ..
Isn't that what they call socialism?
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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.
I see this as functioning on the same principal as the club. The club doesn't keep your car safe so much as make it look less desirable to thieves. If a thief wanders by a few cars with cd cases in them and then yours with a pizza box on the back seat, which one do you think he'll break into first?
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...