Video: a CeBIT moment

As CeBIT continues to struggle with its enterprise vs. consumer identity, one thing remains constant: it's always a freak show. Alligator girl knows it even as she schleps it. See what we mean after the break.

[Bucky @ Mar 4th 2008 1:47PM]

I don't get it. My brain hurts now.

[Peter R. @ Mar 4th 2008 4:35PM]

As far as I can tell, and I'm surprised I even understood anything, some company at CeBIT is showing off durable computer products...but the idiots decide to joke about durability by having a fake mallet hit a monitor, and a cable in the mouth of a rubber crocodile(why not a rubber ducky?). But seriously though, Engadget is this really news worthy, there's not even more than two lines of text in that post. If that woman in the video, read Engadget right now, I bet she would have the same expression on her face as she did in the video, you know the one that says thats so stupid looking.

[Brodie @ Mar 4th 2008 1:48PM]

Where's Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont?

[pathogen @ Mar 4th 2008 2:36PM]

is ryan still dating her?

[phanbouy @ Mar 4th 2008 2:57PM]

wow; tech blogs can get you action. who knew?

[ReductiMat @ Mar 4th 2008 3:23PM]

HA! Give that man the $10,000... funniest post of the year.

[phanbouy @ Mar 4th 2008 3:36PM]

i just checked out her site... ryan's dating HER? she's a babe. shit... i'm starting my own damn tech blog ;p

[Richard Lai @ Mar 4th 2008 8:28PM]

You can find her video podcasts on iTunes, if you must.

[Tim @ Mar 4th 2008 2:01PM]

wait, what?

[Sinistrad @ Mar 4th 2008 2:05PM]

I've always watched from the sidelines as people complain about the newsworthiness of some of the articles here on engadget, undecided - but this is just ridiculous.

[soniiic @ Mar 4th 2008 2:07PM]

does alligator girl have a point to make? cos this post sure isn't making one

[a ham sandwich @ Mar 4th 2008 5:22PM]

sin?

[Vwartenbenschnuggen @ Mar 4th 2008 5:53PM]

tan.

[nd @ Mar 4th 2008 2:12PM]

huh?

[tintin @ Mar 4th 2008 2:16PM]

I like waffles!

[Kyrra @ Mar 4th 2008 2:18PM]

I'm so confused right now...

[Nathan Fritz @ Mar 4th 2008 2:34PM]

Why is this on Engadget? Why is this anywhere on the Internet?
It's not News, it's Engadget.

[Macobyte @ Mar 4th 2008 2:37PM]

Don't drink the Kool-Aid.

[Sintax @ Mar 4th 2008 2:36PM]

I like turtles...

[Baz @ Mar 4th 2008 2:39PM]

Did I mis something? like the point of that?

[Baz @ Mar 4th 2008 2:39PM]

Does this have something to do with the Alligator biting the cable? So an abrasion/crush resistant cable from a company that makes rugged military pcs? Im still lost.

[frankXchange @ Mar 4th 2008 2:41PM]

Maybe there was something encoded in the article? Or maybe he's hitting on her in a REALLY nerdy way?

[phanbouy @ Mar 4th 2008 3:00PM]

awesome

[Bufsabre @ Mar 4th 2008 2:42PM]

that was riveting

[adam @ Mar 4th 2008 2:47PM]

not even sure where to begin. will there be a follow up article?!

[w @ Mar 4th 2008 2:55PM]

hammer proof, but will it resist the bite of an alligator?

[richard knights @ Mar 4th 2008 2:55PM]

can I have those 5 seconds back please?

[EddieW @ Mar 4th 2008 2:56PM]

Don't you guys get it?! it's so very obvious! They are selling durable computer products and they are showing it by having a fake gator chewing on the cable and a weak hammer hitting at the screen and a ugly woman drinking coffee in the background not caring.
Gee! do I have to explain everything to you people?!

[chainofcommand02 @ Mar 4th 2008 3:06PM]

Dude. She's drinking tea. And I think that's a crocodile, not an alligator...

[phanbouy @ Mar 4th 2008 2:58PM]

"As CeBIT continues to struggle with its enterprise vs. consumer identity, one thing remains constant: it's always a freak show. Alligator girl knows it even as she schleps it. See what we mean after the break."

Allright... who's passing out the hallucinogens at CeBIT???

[Roofus @ Mar 4th 2008 3:01PM]

This is what happens when you give a news team unlimited space. Now that they don't HAVE to cut anything, they don't think that they should... They thought wrong.

[ReggieXuk @ Mar 4th 2008 3:04PM]

I think its a joke about how everything has become touch screen?

*checks website*

Its actually about rugged pcs, wtf?! Aligator teh hwat?

[b @ Mar 4th 2008 3:11PM]

It looks like she might have rolled her eyes when the demo started, but the video quality is too low to see it. YouTube sucks, it's fine for amateur stuff, but I really wish commercial websites would stop using it.

[Dave Haupert @ Mar 4th 2008 3:33PM]

My cat's breath smells like cat food

[turn_self_off @ Mar 4th 2008 4:21PM]

i spotted the hammer, but the fake handbag passed me by the first couple of times...

[DT @ Mar 4th 2008 3:36PM]

W...T...F...

[Senor Diddy @ Mar 4th 2008 3:52PM]

Wait....when are the pancakes coming in the mail?

[David @ Mar 4th 2008 3:55PM]

Military grade PC equipment... ok... woohoo
Rubber mallet.. I would be more impressed if they would shoot it with a 22cal.
She's really excited to be at Cebit..
Marketing dollars well spent!

[roflercopterer @ Mar 4th 2008 4:06PM]

I think the point here is this is a WTF moment. Kind of like moments of zen on the Daily Show. That in the midst of all the cool technology hotness there is a girl sitting behind a desk with a fake alligator and a motorized mallot tapping a screen. We don't know what it means, engadget doesn't know what it means and most likely even that girl doesn't know what it means.

[crawcraw @ Mar 4th 2008 4:24PM]

I think this is an encoded signal of something much, much more sinister. I think that girl has been kidnapped! The alligator is chewing the cable, which means that her ties have been severed. The mallet to the monitor signals that she's a goner unless we save her. If you look at 0:08, she brings the coffee mug up to the side of her face rather than her mouth. That means she is "beside herself."

It's so obvious. Call the police!

[EA @ Mar 4th 2008 4:29PM]

She is the one who make the hammer hit the LCD. I guess this video contuine, but some reason we can watch half. She controls the hammer with rope and feet. That's why she rolls eyes then hammer start to hit LCD. Haha Suckers Nobody think that

[H4MM3R @ Mar 4th 2008 5:18PM]

I feel sorry for that hammer. :(

[sdh @ Mar 4th 2008 7:00PM]

I would pay great amounts of money to see that alligator and hammer batteling.

[Chris @ Mar 4th 2008 8:04PM]

Slow news day?

[Sam @ Mar 4th 2008 8:36PM]

This is...a ridiculous way of getting the "Times Viewed" counter on the youtube video to go up. I think I watched it 10 times before getting it.

Its not funny, either.

[Nick @ Mar 4th 2008 8:43PM]

I laughed for ten minutes after watching that. Then I watched it again.
@Sintax: I also like turtles. And bunnies, lots of bunnies. Pink bunnies. With ears. And brains. Braaaiiiinns.

[Sean @ Mar 5th 2008 12:19AM]

Says Bruce Wayne: "You know how it is. You're at a wild party, someone starts passing around the weaponized hallucinogens...."

[Chird @ Mar 5th 2008 1:13AM]

coffee drinking alligator lady drinks coffee

[Casey @ Mar 5th 2008 3:56AM]

Who puts a tea bag in their coffee?

[Casey @ Mar 5th 2008 3:52AM]

most pointless post ever