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Gizmodo remotely shutting LCDs at CES: banned

Posted on 12.01.2008 at 12:07 in Tech News by Martin

The editor of popular gadget website Gizmodo was banned from CES and Gawker Media, company behind that site, is most likely getting sued by CES organizers pretty soon. Reason? Gizmodo’s prank: shutting down tens and hundreds of TV, LCDs and plasma screens by a remote controller known as TV-B-Gone. They published a somehow funny video at their blog, but interrupting many presentations, press events and other important booth shows of many recognized brands wasn’t that great – may be if you were 17-year old nerdy teenager, but CES is visited mostly by real businessmen and such behaviour seems unacceptable to me. Anyway, enjoy the video.

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  1. fosho
    January 13th, 2008 | 23:20

    @rick: now THAT is a true hack

  2. rico
    January 14th, 2008 | 01:33

    lol i thought that was kinda funny :D
    Why were they banned? seems like a childish thing to do to ban them in the first place anyway!

  3. Cohen
    January 14th, 2008 | 01:44

    well, they made me laugh.
    :)

  4. 2
    January 14th, 2008 | 06:29

    @ 102, do you know how much it cost to have a booth in these trade shows? Do you know how much time and efforts are put in? You probably don’t and won’t even care. But i have and let me tell you, if you plunk down $100,000 (and i am being super conservative with that number) then you wouldn’t find it funny either. $100,000 is not even close to how much they pay to have a booth up. Costs for these shows includes: employees (salespeople, booth girls, people that sets up the booth etc), time and planning, cant list em aall but lots. Those that find this vid funny are probably kids.

  5. ghdfgh
    January 14th, 2008 | 16:24

    @2

    they’re just trying to make more money.
    so what if they invest $100,000?
    they’re getting rich and rich and richer.
    but still can’t take a joke.

    if i was working at one of the booths i think i’d find it quite amusing…a little break from standing around giving a stupid demo 70 times a day…

  6. Hs671
    January 14th, 2008 | 17:15

    That was funny! Gives all those uptight corporate business monks a chance to crack a joke and a story to tell!

  7. troof
    January 15th, 2008 | 05:15

    Haha, you guys talking about how wrong that was are squares. This is hilarious, and CES is just a giant nerdfest. Tools.

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