Razer reports that they have stolen several products shown at CES 2017, one of them being one of the two large prototypes presented at the Las Vegas technology fair.
During CES 2017, some of the most prominent products have been the Project Valerie, a laptop, which has three technically 4K screens moved by only one NVIDIA GTX 1080 (something technically impossible, since a GTX 1080 only supports 8K resolutions and 4K games in a very fair way) and Project Ariana, an immersive projector for gaming, both from Razer, which is betting on more exclusive and striking products.
Well, according to its CEO, who has posted on Facebook that their prototypes have been stolen. It appears that they have suffered the theft of at least one of the two prototypes shown at CES 2017, although they have not specified which of the two has been stolen. Apparently, Project Ariana or Project Valerie, along with another unspecified product, would have been lost during the closing and dismantling of the event and everything indicates that they would have been stolen.
Two options are currently being considered by Razer and the CES organization, which speak of simple theft for profit, selling this product within a time or, that it is a theft on request. If it were the latter case, it could be industrial espionage, something that would be quite negative for Razer, since shortly we could have a copy by another company of a product equal or very similar to the two large prototypes presented (it is not known which of the two has disappeared).
The reasons seem to matter little right now and they have already clarified that the consequences "are serious and anyone who does it is clearly not very intelligent." It seems that history repeats itself, since in 2011, Razer suffered the disappearance of two experimental prototypes of Blade, a high-performance laptop, whose main feature was the layout of LCD buttons with configurable design and functions, but in that case, they were stolen directly from his San Francisco research and development lab.
Source: Engadget
