Piicron: why choose, when you can have it all? Invest now!
By Paul Miller 
posted September 2nd 2008 7:32PM
posted September 2nd 2008 7:32PM
posted September 2nd 2008 7:32PM
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Where precisely should I click? Google search?
Speaking of Google, what about Google Chrome? Why hasn't Engadget reported that?
https://www.piicron.com/invest.php
Apparently engadget doesn't want you to go to the website they just asked you to go to.
Mike-- Yeah, I'm typing this from Chrome right now. It's interesting, it's tech news, c'mon Engadget!
Google Chrome! I'm using it now and I can say it's pretty good. Java is unsupported, however, so I'm not trading Firefox yet.
Back on topic.
Ok, can I call BS on this?
wtf engadget ... google chrome? hello?!
btw .. google chrome is absolutely blazing fast. fastest browser I've ever been on ... minimal memory usage.
@Mike10010100:
I also noticed that engadget has made no posts about Google chrome... maybe because it isn't available for macs?
Indeed. This Chrome browser is pretty cool. But I'd like it more if they had called it Uberchrome.
Google Chrome? I'm using Songbird as a browser right now. Playing music and web browser all in one package is awesome! I'll check out Google Chrome though.
Google Chrome is no news. The REAL news is that Apple is going to unveil something on Sept 9th, and Engadget already reported that :)
Wow, long blonde haired dude playing poker gives chick orgasm by squeezing her neck.
..."Invest in PIICRON you want, wise choice it is!" ...apparently they hired yoda to be their spokesperson.
Crap! Again I got lamed by my crap internet. Does this fix that problem also?
No, you got lamed(wtfisthat?) by caring if you're first.
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You could have had first if you were using Google Chrome like the rest of us. C'mon dude look where you are....
Also, this is total Vapor Ware. First off play every console game? Hmm sounds like piracy to me. Second, you think Sony and Microsoft are going to just Give up their code to use. Ha!
@SooperGooMan
Really. Less than 12 hours in the wild and you want to post that? I didn't even know they had Chrome on the iPhone.
Now how amazing is that handheld?
Wow, so I can invest just buy putting in my credit card information? Sign me up!
http://yougotowned.net/
https://www.piicron.com/invest.php
...since engadget doesn't want to post the link that they ask us to go to
apparently piicron has only existed for the amount of time it takes to dream this up and build a website about it. found this post, thought the moderator's reaction was hilarious:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?s=0bdd6547a716aec7f52f1b7b341fd548&p=1210073#post1210073
Plays any game for any system ever? Piicron is an investment in patent infringement, clearly.
That and a giant collection of emulators...Like GameTap but soo much worse!
Oh good. I've been looking for somewhere to invest my magic beans.
I won't clamor for them to be burned at the stake, but ya gotta admit it looks bad. I googled the name "piicron" and the company's url was the fourth highest website. Engadget's article got pageranked above them. Yikes!
Wow.
Just wow.
Although the 4870x2 does have more processing power than all the consoles, and regardless of how cool that would be, it's not going to happen.
But if it does, I'll be the first to buy one, as long as the prices aren't as high as listed. $2k for a game console? And does a handheld system really need 3d image capture?
Is that a joke or some wild dream? Seriously the web site doesn't look serious. . . and at the same time it does. . . . .
From their website, their absolute best version of the Ubercron is the Ubercron 31337. That's right, that's the name of the product! This is so legit!
Also from the site:
"We will let you in on a little secret we have realized after long & hard innovative testing. Batteries degrade over time. No, really! Who could have figured? We surely expect to receive the Nobel physics price for our discovery."
"...we dreamed up the dream console, the monster of monsters, the god of gods."
"...from close talks with different types of consumers we have made the frighteningly discovery that price matters!"
"You want quality? So do we. Quality comes in anodized aluminium with several colors to choose from."
"Impressed? Don't be, we are just getting started!"
Oh goodness... must remember to breathe... I mean, I get that they're trying to be over the top, it's just... I can't imagine ever buying a thing these people would try to sell me.
"any game ever released to any console"
NES, SNES, N64. What are they gonna do, put slots on the thing, or leave you to find your own ROMs of them? Either way, I don't think it's legal. It's illegal if this thing plays ANY game released for ANY other console, isn't it?
Piicron? More like Pikey!
This was probably some ID students first semester project. Why is this news worthy?
What do you mean by "ID"? "ID" can stand for a lot of different things.
That's exactly what this looks like.
Check the "About Us" section on their horridly designed site:
http://www.piicron.com/investors/whoarewe.php
The whole thing is three late-teens/early-20s guys, and their mother, who is an optician.
It's a student project turned scam site.
FRIST!
FIAL!
every couple years, there come a company that promises a miracle machine...
years later, they deliver blank checks to investors and CEOs are seen crashing limited edition Ferraris...
at least last one did come up with a $130 keyboard...
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/12/phantom-keyboar.html
Übercron (The monster flagship that plays any game to any console)
Netcron (Our revolutionary & groundbreaking handheld game console)
Secron (Our value console, owning PS3/WII/360, aimed at 3rd world)
Controller (A controller, unlike any before it)
I'm glad they have time to make 3 consoles, specially a unique one for the third world!
I wonder what the controller would be like?
lol! They're gonna charge people for grid-computing services through the consoles and pay console owners for the work done.
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If your console does the work, naturally you should get paid, right? Leaving it on working on a task from someone else can earn you $, quite a pleasant thought, is it not?"
Hey, Blogsmith! I wasn't finished that comment! Anyway..
The fact that they used a $ symbol for the word money says it all. This isn't happening.
THAT is what tipped you off? Nothing else?
Just another nail in the coffin, Peter.
Its fun to root for the liitle guy every now and then but its a lot harder if every company that's ever made a game console is suing.
They'll need all the capital they can get to lawyer up. You think the big 3 of gaming will take that one sitting down? Hope SEC has a junior analyst or two free to shut down that investment non-sense.
Well for the ps3 and 360 that would mean 1 less console to lose money on manufacturing while there still being 1 more console for someone to buy games for.
Never going to happen....
Hell yes! If I use their credit card donation form to "invest" one US cent, I'll get a hundred bucks in 2012! Awesome!
Also, I hope they make a super TV to go with that third-world gaming system.
Let me guess...not only can this thing play every game ever, but incense and scented oils comes out of that little vent/compound eye thing on the center...am I right?
lol:
"No ads, no monthly fee, no shareware, no strings attached. Full, free lovely games for your enjoyment & personal pleasure.
But how? We'll soon unveil how this is possible. Suck on that Microsoft, Nintendo & Sony, how does it taste? What do you think we are up to?"
There's too much crap to read on this site, and all of it sounds like a freshman in high school wrote it...