RED teases with yet another mysterious image
The RED folks sure do like to tease out their upcoming products -- and occasionally even lead folks astray -- and it looks like they're really pulling out all the stops for their forthcoming Scarlet and Epic announcements. That includes a slightly perplexing teaser image released a few days ago and now this new, even more confounding image, again posted on the Reduser forums by RED founder Jim Jannard himself. While speculation abounds, no one seems to have quite pegged down exactly what it is, or if it actually is something at all, so feel free to take your own shot at it in comments.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
blueangel00100 @ Nov 6th 2008 5:35PM
PRESS THE RED BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Plothole @ Nov 6th 2008 9:14PM
You see that red button? Whatever you do, don't ever push the red button!
James @ Nov 6th 2008 9:52PM
No its cool..im just going to press the red button.
Camperton @ Nov 6th 2008 10:19PM
The red. Shiny. Jolly. Candy-like button!
souravgh @ Nov 6th 2008 10:27PM
No Dexter reference yet?
Dee Dee : "Ooo, What does this button do??!!"
Richard @ Nov 6th 2008 10:53PM
Wow.. I had forgotten about that cartoon. When you wrote Dexter, I was thinking of the serial killer.
konshuss @ Nov 6th 2008 11:48PM
nice, Red releases a hot plate that heats to 5000 degrees.
xboxbotox @ Nov 6th 2008 11:57PM
The movie quote is from....True Lies!
ah-palin @ Nov 7th 2008 5:24AM
Press the RED button to
* (Go back in time and) vote for McCain-n-abel
* Bomb the wall street
or ..(silly me)
* beam up netflix and youtube (or similar me toos) on to your wall
billy bob thorton @ Nov 7th 2008 10:24AM
It says right around the button "scarlet"
SPG @ Nov 7th 2008 3:35PM
Don't touch it you fool! It's the history eraser button!
Joe @ Nov 7th 2008 3:29PM
DON'T TOUCH IT! It's the History Eraser Button you FOOOL!!!
FLaSHBaCK @ Nov 6th 2008 5:35PM
......wtf could it be.....
StalematE @ Nov 6th 2008 6:28PM
I know what this is... this is an espresso machine... No, no wait, it's a snow cone maker... Is it a water heater?
sk8rpro @ Nov 6th 2008 7:36PM
No ... it's the HAL 9000. My advice to anyone is to stay away from it ... it will kill you!
brickwood @ Nov 6th 2008 8:32PM
very HD projector!
chris @ Nov 6th 2008 10:25PM
-StalematE
I am going crazy trying to remember what movie that is from......
chris @ Nov 6th 2008 10:29PM
nvm, i got it...
xboxbotox @ Nov 6th 2008 11:59PM
Sorry, responded to the wrong comment (Engadget comments system = not so good).
The movie quote is...True Lies!
(01) @ Nov 7th 2008 10:36AM
You're kidding, right? It's obviously an HD Polaroid camera...what else could it be?
AVG @ Nov 6th 2008 5:36PM
The mystery product is Darth Vader.
Technex @ Nov 7th 2008 3:17AM
You work for AVG or something? :D
Abuzar Baloach @ Nov 6th 2008 5:36PM
Digital alarm clock.
Jørund @ Nov 6th 2008 5:36PM
Powerbook g5?
7of7 @ Nov 6th 2008 5:38PM
I'm guessing it's a home theater projector.
HemanC @ Nov 6th 2008 6:16PM
2nd that.
digitallysick @ Nov 6th 2008 6:23PM
Has to be , it says Cinema. Must be a high def projector
mcg @ Nov 6th 2008 8:37PM
Hmm, I'm not so sure. It seems far too narrow to be that. Good HT projectors tend to be boxy.
Besides, they may know something about cameras but I don't think that maps to projection.
Camperton @ Nov 6th 2008 10:23PM
It's says 'Scarlett' on it. The Scarlet is a camera. That much we already know.
jack @ Nov 6th 2008 5:39PM
it's either this scarlet product or the canon 5D MKII that I already have several L-series glass for. I'm leaning toward Canon unless this scarlet truly is a game changer in the biggest, most profound, way.
schtum @ Nov 6th 2008 6:35PM
It says Scarlet in front of the red thing. You can make out "CARLE" easily, and the T becomes apparent if you lighten the image a bit (don't even need photoshop, just highlight the image with your mouse and click in the address bar).
schtum @ Nov 6th 2008 6:37PM
The above trick works in Firefox, IE not so much.
Dizzybro @ Nov 6th 2008 5:39PM
Its a projector, you can see a little lens at the top right, those are probably cable slots in the front
MrFairladyz @ Nov 6th 2008 6:14PM
definitely... also says RED DIGITAL CIN(EMA)
Cordell @ Nov 6th 2008 5:39PM
Looks like a Polaroid camera
Eddie @ Nov 6th 2008 6:20PM
My thought exactly.
barry99705 @ Nov 6th 2008 6:48PM
I was thinking the same thing.
Tyler Murphy @ Nov 6th 2008 5:40PM
Tis a RED polaroid duh
rhino @ Nov 6th 2008 5:40PM
It's obviously a 200 megapixel polaroid camera.
Eric @ Nov 6th 2008 5:41PM
Its... expensive
Valicore @ Nov 6th 2008 5:43PM
I think you're all off. It's obviously a new and improved DHD with haptic feedback.
DirtyVegas @ Nov 6th 2008 5:45PM
It's GlaDOS V2
JoshK @ Nov 6th 2008 5:45PM
The button hints at the "Scarlet" (Look towards the base of the button.)
They said (on the website) that EVERYTHING changed with its design.
http://www.scarletuser.com/showthread.php?p=21391#post21391
holycow @ Nov 6th 2008 5:49PM
Looks to me like an awesome projector for some reason.
Aluisius Sudiarto @ Nov 6th 2008 5:51PM
It's a camera with an "Easy" button.
Game_playa @ Nov 6th 2008 8:18PM
lol
dentaldoc @ Nov 6th 2008 5:52PM
Red Needs to Render its Byline Obsolete!
Red Cinema's byline "RED RENDERS OBSOLESCENCE OBSOLETE" is starting to sound a little obsolete. After subtracting all its VaporCine products, there is but a single camera. And in essence, Red has rendered it (Red One) obsolete. Starting last year, Red has been offering to take back all those Red One cameras in trade (some day) for the VaporEpic. But now, before anybody ever even showed a prototype of it, Red announced that it too is obsolete!
So the camera that was going to continue in the tradition of keeping obsolescence obsolete, is now itself obsolete! Who knows, pretty soon they may just decide to render cinema obsolete.
Perhaps it would be a little less confusing (and disingenuous) if Red changed its byline to "Red Renders Obsolescence".
The news psycho buzz head space that Red is trying to occupy makes Apple's accomplishments look positively juvenile, I mean – obsolete. Uh-oh. I fear that I have just made myself an unworthy customer with my "bad attitude". Red is probably about to render me obsolete.
coffee @ Nov 6th 2008 5:54PM
'tis a projector with a large ON button, or it's the Hal9000, either one.
Carl @ Nov 6th 2008 5:55PM
It's a new Polaroid camera.
gad get @ Nov 6th 2008 5:56PM
It's something that requires a big red button.... Perhaps a weapon of some kind? A self-destruct?