Razer saves gaming again! Unleashes the Nabu smart band

[Coment]

You aren't looking at it from the right market eyes.

Just imagine all the [I]games [/I]that you can make in which interaction with hands is needed...
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[morky]

I want this.

They should make leaderboard so lazy people (like me) can challenge others in stair climbing and running. Seems neat.

But it shouldn't go for more then 60$.

[Awaken90125]

[QUOTE=eirexe;43450093]Oh wait, 50$? that's pretty nice price.[/QUOTE]
It is $50 for devs, for consumers it will be ~$100

[Joscpe]

[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;43443547]You know what something like this could be used for that would be great? Rumble, like what you get with a controller.[/QUOTE]

Rumble? I don't believe this is meant to be a cock ring.

[dai]

[QUOTE=Lolkork;43447055]Stop putting 'smart' in the name of all new electronic devices, it's starting to get really dumb.[/QUOTE]

still not as dumb as companies who still bandwagon on apple's iPrefix, but slightly better than the "HD" fad

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[Psycommu]

[QUOTE=dai;43450761]still not as dumb as companies who still bandwagon on apple's iPrefix, but slightly better than the "HD" fad

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Sorry for the bump, but I've been needing a reason to state this

Might be stupid but it works.
Got your attention, didn't it? A lot of people have bought those because of that little prefix. Either because they believed it, or they just wanted to see how "HD" or just all-around stupid it really was.
On the outside it's dumb, but it's kind of a clever marketing scheme. Label it for what's new, what's "in". You never know, people just might fall for it and make you a good hunk of cash.

If I was going to release a gimmicky product, of course I wouldn't name it for what it really is! I'd bend the rules a little. Just slap whatever's popular in the name and instant $$$$$

Of course, I'm not saying it'd be morally right to take advantage of stupid or overly curious people. I would rather make a good, legitimate product than a gimmicky one with fancy names and letters all over it. I just see what these companies are doing.

[Zethin]

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;43456993]Sorry for the bump, but I've been needing a reason to state this

Might be stupid but it works.
Got your attention, didn't it? A lot of people have bought those because of that little prefix. Either because they believed it, or they just wanted to see how "HD" or just all-around stupid it really was.
On the outside it's dumb, but it's kind of a clever marketing scheme. Label it for what's new, what's "in". You never know, people just might fall for it and make you a good hunk of cash.

If I was going to release a gimmicky product, of course I wouldn't name it for what it really is! I'd bend the rules a little. Just slap whatever's popular in the name and instant $$$$$

Of course, I'm not saying it'd be morally right to take advantage of stupid or overly curious people. I would rather make a good, legitimate product than a gimmicky one with fancy names and letters all over it. I just see what these companies are doing.[/QUOTE]

How does that make the product any less dumb?

[Psycommu]

Did I ever say it makes the product less dumb? Of course not! I'm just saying that the [I]companies themselves[/I] are onto something when they do this, and not entirely stupid themselves.

The products with the fancy names are still just as dumb. :v:

[dai]

that's the reason it's so fucking agitating, so many random companies do it because they know they can ride some coattails without even trying to mask it.

it irks me more because the company that does the VR equipment I work with unofficially named their shit things like "iCube" (3D Projector room thing), "iBench" (tabletop 3D workbench monitor), and iCatcher (digital whiteboard thing, I think this is their crowning achievement in making it seem like a snazzy pun instead of coattailing). The only upside is that when they showed the technology to a company from china showing interest in buying the technology, the chinese company turned around and made some laughably cheap knockoffs of the whole hardware lineup (with no software to actually make shit work), and named it all gCube, gBench and gCatcher. I assume their company starts with a G