MacBook Disguised As Newspaper

Ed Sutherland ()

(Photo courtesy Gadget Lab)

(Photo courtesy Gadget Lab)

Have you ever left your MacBook on the train or in a cafe, only to return and find it gone? Maybe the best bet is to hide that sleek know-it-anywhere Apple design behind something more mundane, like a newspaper. That’s the concept behind a zippered laptop case that appears to a passerby as just a discarded newspaper. The advantages of the faux newspapers may be limited to the myopic thief, as Gadget Lab’s Charlie Sorrel notes:

“Spanish readers will note that the name of the paper is spelled wrong (it should be La Vanguardia, with an extra “i” before the final letter).” For English readers, the company also offers “Herold Tribune.” The obvious misspellings are likely due to copyright issues, but it could affect the coverup’s effectiveness. Maybe a licensing deal could be worked out to offer real newspaper front pages?

An alternative is the DIY route, using a common container to hold your valuable Mac. Sorrel puts his MacBook in a Jiffy Bag protected by a Fed Ex envelope. Could these new coverups be the backlash to a plethora of bling iPod/iPhone and MacBook coverings?

[Via Gadget Lab and BBG]

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Ed Sutherland

Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.

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  • Gene

    Or you could just not leave your laptop laying around while you wander off.

  • MacRat

    “Have you ever left your MacBook on the train or in a cafe, only to return and find it gone?”

    Uh, no. Because that would be a stupid thing to do.

  • electrojitter

    agreed.

  • kbuck

    Now the good samaritan doesn’t have the opportunity to say, ‘scuse me sir, you left your computer behind. Or the diligent employee (that also knows their every move is recorded on video while at work) won’t know it’s a laptop and toss in with the rest of the discarded news papers.

  • imajoebob

    What a great idea! I’ve never seen anyone pick up an abandoned newspaper on the Tube. And you can be certain if I seem some scurrilous cad try to read the copy of The Independent you left on the seat I’d throw him to the floor of the car and sit on him while someone else runs to find a policeman.

  • Nathan

    It’s a cute case, but if you leave your laptop, or any other expensive piece of equipment somewhere, you deserve to lose it.