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A Pizza Box for Your Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-little-bit-late dept.

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."

8 of 526 comments (clear)

  1. Are the edges padded? by SallyShears · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks cool, but ...

    I don't see any protective padding at the edges where it's needed.

    -- Sally

  2. Why not cut out the middleman... by d3vpsaux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...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.

  3. Worlds. Stupidest. Product. by mumblestheclown · · Score: 4, Insightful
    For all the reasons that slashdotters are doubtlessly now pounding out furiously on their keyboards and more, this is perhaps the dumbest product I have ever seen.

    If real.

    And I can't be asked to do the due diligence to see if it is.

  4. The dumbest idea...ever! by jacobcaz · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is one of the dumber things I've ever seen. They recommend you put the box in your bag, but isn't this exactly why they would want you to buy this in the first place?
    • 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.

  5. Re:Back Pack by tomstdenis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.
  6. Re:Back Pack by natron+2.0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    --
    [n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
  7. Now I've seen everything by glowimperial · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How on earth did this get slashdotted? This is pure Fark fodder and nothing more. Are they letting the dog post?

  8. Re:Back Pack by eln · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.