Is dropping a Panasonic Toughbook during the middle of a CES press conference embarrassing, or the best product demo ever?
Panny, you sneaky dudes! This was the only thing more exciting than Justin Timberlake’s surprise entrance.
Is dropping a Panasonic Toughbook during the middle of a CES press conference embarrassing, or the best product demo ever?
Panny, you sneaky dudes! This was the only thing more exciting than Justin Timberlake’s surprise entrance.
Barry
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:38 PMhis right foot looks like it’s doing a little dance lol
TvZ
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:43 PMI’m just waiting for the dance mix meme
Ollie
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:47 PMembarrassing? that’s staged as hell, he doesn’t even react and try to catch it, he moves his foot OUT of the way, instead of trying to stop it…
Marketing at its finest.
vpn'er
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:56 PMI agree normally you’d move your foot IN the way so you can stop it hitting the hard floor.
Drew
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 1:11 PMThis man has lots of money, he doesn’t care if the tablet explodes and takes out half the auditorium with it.
He’s more concerned about his foot.
Chris
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 1:57 PM(Y) The tablet’s expendable whereas a prosthetic foot doesn’t sound very appealing
Virus__
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 4:14 PMAdam Hills seems to make an audience laugh about his.. Seems alright if you ask me. lol.
justaguy
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 1:31 PMif that’s the new Toughbook tablet then it probably was staged…have a look on youtube for some of their videos of Toughbooks vs ATV andToughbook vs snow mobile.
John
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 2:13 PMThe Panasonic guys do this at trade shows all the time with the toughbook laptops. How else do you show how tough it is? Surely someone at Gizmodo has seen this done before?
DarkAura
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 2:37 PMBut does he start to move his foot before he starts to drop it?
This has to be one of the biggest conspiracy of our time!!!
Jono
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 5:39 PMfake.
Jeff
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 8:19 PMBUT, it proves they are tough.
Denis
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 8:51 PMGood sales gimmick – I once bought a microphone simply because the demonstrator dropped it for effect.
Eamonn
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 8:57 PMDefinitely staged… If you drop something, you tend to kinda go ‘shit dropped something, better pick it up’ but he’s going to pick it up while it’s falling.
mavx4
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:27 PMnext time, get chuck norris to round house kick the tablet
Sowhatmeh
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 7:00 AMStaged or not, that single theatrics proved a point quicker than a boring 100 pages slide of keynote