Razer's three-screened laptop called Project Valerie. PHOTO: facebook.com/razer
The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2017 brought to us a host of prototypes with the world's biggest consumer tech event making a series of headlines. One headline, however, was not what we were expecting.
After unveiling two new gaming prototypes (one of that won two Best of CES 2017 awards), Razer’s event took a turn towards the bad. The company's CEO Min-Liang Tan confirmed that two of its concept products were stolen from the event booth on the last day of the show.
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In his Facebook post, Tan wrote: "I've just been informed that two of our prototypes were stolen from our booth at CES today," adding, "We have filed the necessary reports and are currently working with the show management as well as law enforcement to address this issue."
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Details of which products were stolen have not been confirmed yet, but Razer's presence at CES 2017 was dominated by the Chroma projector, called Project Ariana, along with a three-screened laptop going under the working title of Project Valerie.
Razer has had similar fortunes before as in 2011, two experimental Blade prototypes were stolen from its R&D lab in San Francisco.
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Without ruling out corporate spying, Tan said, "We treat theft/larceny, and if relevant to this case, industrial espionage, very seriously – it is cheating, and cheating doesn't sit well with us. Penalties for such crimes are grievous and anyone who would do this clearly isn't very smart."
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