Responsible journalists being beaten down by the Man
Not really. Actually, its just some immature jackassses from Gizmodo who have since been banned from the CES events for life.
The story starts when the Gizmodo guys decide that it would be funny to take a 'TV b Gone', which is a handheld device that turns off television sets like a creepy universal remote control of death.
The guys then decide to take several of these devices to the CES (Computer Electronics Show) in Vegas. CES is a billon dollar symposium of new technology displays...everyone who is anyone has a booth and they are there for one reason only: to sell their technology.
So the Giz guys take these TVb Gone devices and start walking by displays of televisions that are being used for showing presentations and flyers and are used by presenters. And they turn them all off.
Isn't that hilarious! They are turning off the technology needed to demonstrate the technology being presented at a trade show about technology, which is the field they cover on their technology site. Get it? Isn't that just hilarious!!!
They really showed those jackasses who spent millions of dollars in product development and marketing and investments. Let's see how Sony feels the next time Gizmodo asks for a preview of a new device, or how Microsoft's Bill Gates responds to another interview request when he learns that these guys shut down all of the tv sets being used to demo the XBox 360.
There's an old saying 'don't burn your bridges'. Luckily Giz didn't do that - they just turned them off for a gag.
PS: THey owe Motorola big time...that was a shitty thing to do.
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- Posted: Jan 12, 2008 by Scott McDaniel
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