That was great!
"I kinda want to take care of the box"
RIIIIP

Evildead22

hahahaha
thats the first unboxing i've seen that wasnt magically easy to some out of the package

Kartune

Typical Unboxing.

I'll be sure to make one for the iPod and focus more on the Box then the actual iPod.

Skeezy

i have had the same experience with my remote!!!

i was very excited and opened it before the macbook, and yes the glue is very sticky.

medopal

Oh and this guy should take some anger management classes.
After a minute I was expecting him to start biting the box and jump on the table like a chimpanzee.

ashamaniq

The easiest way to open those annoying packages without sharp tools? Have a lighter ready! heat up the plastic and tear/cut/bite away (Just dont poison, burn or maim yourself in the process)

Fused7

OK... really, that doesn't look so hard to open.
Probably the typical guy that opens a bag of chips and the whole thing explodes all over the place.
I do agree that some toys come in packets that feel more like ABS plastic used in the auto industry.

ashamaniq

@efenili: Come one, it's obvious... this is how they sell their industrial size First Aid kits!

Also, ever wonder why they sell those folding utility knives in three-packs? Because they know you shop at Costco and need that many!

D.

drzeller

I don't get it...no dancing lemmings?

typeszero199

someone has anger issues.

thomasav

This kind of packaging is a breeze to open compared to those idiotic molded thick plastic things most USB flash drives, memory cards and stuff like that come in. Especially if you buy a memory card that you need to use right away and have no knives or scissors handy. Ugh... My teeth and fingers hurt even thinking about it

Varash

Yeah... I was also expecting him to cut himself... :P
I had far worse unboxing, only I didn't video it regretably.

The last hard plastic unboxing I did I remember very well making a deep cut on my index finger. Scar is still there... if I'm not mistaken, it was some sort of cable.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@wolfenstein-3d: Wow, you should read what you post before you post it because that doesn't read very well. dumbass

wolfenstein-3d

This is why the rest of the building ridicules the packaging engineers in our building.

wolfenstein-3d

The worst is the costco packaging. You buy a fuckin thumb drive the size of a key and you have to battle with 3 feet of super sealed ultra plastic that requires a fuckin powersaw to open but you still can't avoid it pinching your god damn skin or cutting into your fingers causing you to bleed all over the floor until you finally rip the damn thing open so hard you smash your fist into the wall denting your new paint and breaking 3 fingers. But at least I got it for 10 fuckin dollars cheaper than from best buy!

efenili

I have used that technique of unboxing for years.

jpitsch

Some days i wish that they would put things in a can. that way i can at least open with a can opener!

red3001

hahahaha

Watch the retarded, ADD-riddled monkey try to open the package.

How fucking retarded do you have to be?

metalhaze

I've had a similar experience opening an iPod charger I bought from Best Buy. I'm relatively sure that whatever glue Apple uses to put the plastic-hook on the top gets really really sticky over time and becomes virtually unmovable. I definitely destroyed the entire box trying to get at the charger.

Jawbreaker4Fs

That could have been a video of me.

Michael

@adhir: They have 15 or 16 pairs of those steel threaded twisty ties (so you can't cut them) that are spun with a machine so you need needlenose pliers to untwist them. Then, I've noticed on a lot of things, they have big thick plastic things SCREWED IN TO THE TOY USING METAL MACHINE SCREWS! Seriously, wtf is up with that?

@Neone: I found even the best packaging (short of kids toys mentioned above) is to use just a really sharp hunting knife. Why do I know this? I worked in retail, and was frequently the person to find cut open boxes.

shockwaver

Kinda makes me wonder how he got his Macbook out of the box...and judging by the looks of it, he used grease...

Rattierevolution

This is pretty funny and seems satirical of most unboxing-a-gadget vids that are flawless and graceful.

Points for realism.

Seinosuke

another question: why doesn't apple "genious" desginers do a bit tinyer and could be up to 5mm wider so you could store it or even recharge it in the pcie port.

rrwakc

I think it is meant to be that people cannot steal stuff 'the easy way' in stores.

And those chinese packaging is really hard to open.

Neone

LOL - come on guys - this dude is making an important point. Never mind that the apple remote is easy to open. I'll make a vid next time I'm unboxing one of my kids' new toys -- esp something like her dora dollhouse. Those things are so PACKED, and are damn near impossible to open without power tools and copious cussing. WHAT IS WITH THE INSANE PACKAGING VENDORS??

adhir

That was hilarious and instantly makes me feel bad about even owning an X-Acto® (a registered trademark of the X-Acto corporation, all rights reserved) Knife.

Gilbert

@RE-L: There's my brain's other half.

Late_Night

I really thought he was going to stab himself with the scissors. Why else post it on Giz?

Late_Night

Damn...I was expecting him to accidentally cut himself with the scissors; or maybe accidentally shooting the remote towards the laptop; or maybe breaking the remote.

RE-L

Funny, although it is rather easy to open in reality... try a china made HDMI cable... you need metal cutters to get thru the plastic.

sos10

You want to see a really irritating unboxing video? Have someone try to remove a Sony Ericsson Walkman mic/headphone attachment from its blister packaging, without scissors.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

This guy must work at a genius bar.

qbrad

Ooooh, this looks like when I try to unbox stuff! Except I'd use the scissors more and would probably end up stabbing through the goddamn package in the end...

Eruanno

@Ron-Mexico: LOL - that's hilarious. I must have missed that when it came out.

adhir

@Ron-Mexico: That was some great viral unboxinging! ;)

As for this iPod unboxing, where is the obnoxiously loud music...

SigmundTheSeaMonster

worst packaging i've ever encountered: wowee roboraptor. it is beyond insane. the package engineers behind that should be forced to eat the titanium twistie ties resulting from the poor parents forced to do battle w their packaging.

adhir

50 bucks betting he is american...

VakeroRokero

Hand-Model he is not!

He must be single, no girlfriend and a virgin because if he can't open something as simple as an Apple Remote how much trouble do you think he has with undoing a woman's bra? Unzipping her pants? Opening the door for a woman? Blah, blah, blah...

booshpilot

I still prefer the Samsung Omnia unboxing post from last month (which Giz quickly took down for some unexplained reason.)

+ Watch video

Ron-Mexico

@Late_Night: LOL!

RE-L

He expressed really good that i have sometimes with the gadgets i receive
but to me it seems like the smaller the device the more difficult is to unbox it
but either way it was very funny 2.10 min of my life :)

TBM-Fan

i think he faked it. he tried to rip the plastic box apart before sliding the cardboard out of it. of course trying to rip plastic will be difficult..

flareak

Plastic clam shell/bubble packaging = the evilest of packaging.

RE-L

I actually laughed... Thanks Giz!

Jhwk

@mpar: yes that's 0.20 for the remote, and 19.80 for the apple logo.

adhir

hahaha i laughed my ass off watching this video. I love how he made grunts while trying to get into the package. haha his dude had some serious problems and i love how he found the hardest way of getting into the package and still posted the video. Ive never seen a box get that destroyed hahaha soo funny!

Jad35

I don't have this problem. I noticed the difficulty when I bought products form apply with similar a similar box. I just whip out the old swiss army knife and cut through the plastic. What really pisses me off is when I buy DVD's. I get so many and sometimes they come with 3 security tapes. WTF!

innout3x3

@trekkie: yes - i figured that would be the response. i'm decidedly not a packaging engineer. yet, i've opened enough packages to know good packaging when i see it. for robosapien/raptor/etc, the metal twistie ties are not it. foam with a roboraptor shaped cutout would have worked as well and not driven parents and their children to fits on christmas morning.

adhir

Go to Costco, purchase one of their gaming bundle packs, the ones with the console and a game and a controller. Anything short of a SWAT entry team will not get you in. Not to mention the new action figures are near impossible with the twisty ties and those super small clear rubber bands.

Xaldian

DORK SMASH!

LazyPanda

20$ for that crap wow... really i had no idea

mpar

Wow, most of you seriously have no sense of humor.

AHemp

@adhir:

when you ship stuff in a boat it vibrates a lot. To keep it in place you spot weld them to the packaging.

The other reason is fuckers that steal and deserve to DIAF. They were poking into packaging and swiping pieces of the set ruining toys for all the kids. So they weld them in place.

It sucks, and this is how the industry tried to combat those two problems.

trekkie

@adhir: What I'd like to do is put the bastards who decided on doing that, put them down in a room, and have them open every single toy they ever packaged.

That'd show em.

sean09

I like how he goes into 'the literature' after dropping the remote. Awesome comedic timing.

future-proof

@Evildead22: exactly. i like how he keeps his cool and talks nonchalantly after wreaking havoc on that packaging.

aphxtwn

Best unboxing I've seen in a long time!

Scott

@drzeller: haha, it makes perfect sense!

efenili

What a drama queen.

wiggatron

I LMAO

Glare

Man, he almost broke a fingernail.

= )

ANoel

@jpitsch:

LOl me too.

Strider-No.9

The voice sounds like Eric Wareheim from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Not gunna lie...

bosspants

More like deboxing than unboxing.

Hyman Decent

I don't _EVER_ want to be so tech-savvy that I become a gibbering monkey when it comes to opening a simple box. There are proper tools for everything, and scissors are _NOT_ the right tool for this job. That's just what people who have no clue what they're doing use.

For a box, you _cut_ the tape with a shop knife or a box cutter (don't use your kitchen knives because you probably won't want to find yourself eating tape goo a week later). For the plastic clamshells, there's usually an "innie" side and an "outie" side around the outside edge where it's heat-sealed. On the "innie" side, drop a knife point into the 90 degree corner and cut _three_ sides of the package open. After that, it's not terribly hard to pull the flap open so you can get at the tasty goodies inside.

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge:
Send me one, and I'll send you video of me doing it in under a minute. Guaranteed. And no hospital trips necessary. You see, I do have the proper tools for opening boxes, blister packs, and pretty much anything an object might come commercially packaged in. And I know how to use them safely. 15 years of shop experience, and no missing body parts, nor any major at-fault injuries.

@adhir:
I guess you're not the one who vacuums your house, or you'd know why foam packaging is much hated (y'know, aside from the bad-for-the-environment thing).

@innout3x3:
I've actually gotten pretty good at peeling those off in one piece. Even the ones that are designed to tear apart when you try to do that so you can't reseal the case after opening it. Alternately, if they're that much trouble, you could always slit them right down the middle (the DVD case even provides a nice handy groove to guide your knife blade).

Purple Dave

Blister pack meet keys, keys meet blister pack..FIGHT!

20 minutes later..
Keys win.

smeee

Say what you will about Monster Cables, at least their heavy plastic blister packs are easy to open. More people should take cues. I was forced into buying a component cable from them once.

Enochrewt

Everyone can thank big box retailers for the state of packaging security. Stores like Wal-Mart now mandate that manufacturers (of high dollar merch) who want to sell their product at Wal-Mart MUST use sealed, tamper resistant (proof) packaging. It is a theft issue.

So really you can thank the shoplifters.

design4food

man that was totally stages. No one can have that much problem opening a simple box (nor stay that calm if they were having that much trouble).

redkamel

@Rattierevolution: Grease! Hilarious!

I agree the vid would've been 2x more hilarious if the remote would've flown into the MacBook!

ZukeZuke

I'd be frustrated too if I had spent $20 on a d-pad.

Xenocide

Who actually video tapes themselves unboxing an Apple Remote, failed or not?

Mammoth

ummm actually its very easy to open that box. I used to open them all the time when I worked at Apple Store. There' just one side you have to cut. Hmmm dunno why he glued all sides together?

vgart

I personally am impressed, as he made it to a full two minutes and managed to open it without trying to use his teeth! Which is more than I can say.

Countless times I've habitually put CD's and other shrink-wrapped packages in my mouth and tried to bite through them before the idea of grabbing a box cutter even enters my mind.

silvarga

@ZukeZuke:
Woulda been 10x more hilarious if it impaled itself in his flatscreen TV...only to reveal that lying in the corner is another flatscreen TV with a Wiimote stabbed through its screen.

Purple Dave

nothing like those fancy unboxings where they sit in a dust free room with breathing masks and scalpels...

urbanturban666

ever try to unbox 360 stuff, headsets are the worst almost cut the wires once...or twice

invictus2006

finally, an unboxing video not made by some retard

sonicwinder

@adhir: Actually, you should make vids of your kids unboxing their presents.

smegz

Having that guy open something is like asking Gallegher to open your beer.

Yeah, I know it's a joke

Duc

ahhahaah omg... that was some funny shit

qiuness

the funniest thing is that i was listening to slayer - reborn while this video was playing. as soon as you see the frustration begin, the solo comes in! KING FTW!

helimarker

i thought this was going to be lame initially but that was hilarious.

@Rattierevolution good stuff

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