RED teases with yet another mysterious image
By Donald Melanson 
posted Nov 6th 2008 5:33PM
posted Nov 6th 2008 5:33PM
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.
PRESS THE RED BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!!
You see that red button? Whatever you do, don't ever push the red button!
No its cool..im just going to press the red button.
The red. Shiny. Jolly. Candy-like button!
No Dexter reference yet?
Dee Dee : "Ooo, What does this button do??!!"
Wow.. I had forgotten about that cartoon. When you wrote Dexter, I was thinking of the serial killer.
nice, Red releases a hot plate that heats to 5000 degrees.
The movie quote is from....True Lies!
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
It says right around the button "scarlet"
Don't touch it you fool! It's the history eraser button!
DON'T TOUCH IT! It's the History Eraser Button you FOOOL!!!
......wtf could it be.....
I know what this is... this is an espresso machine... No, no wait, it's a snow cone maker... Is it a water heater?
No ... it's the HAL 9000. My advice to anyone is to stay away from it ... it will kill you!
very HD projector!
-StalematE
I am going crazy trying to remember what movie that is from......
nvm, i got it...
Sorry, responded to the wrong comment (Engadget comments system = not so good).
The movie quote is...True Lies!
You're kidding, right? It's obviously an HD Polaroid camera...what else could it be?
The mystery product is Darth Vader.
You work for AVG or something? :D
Digital alarm clock.
Powerbook g5?
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.
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).
The above trick works in Firefox, IE not so much.
Who GAS?
I'm guessing it's a home theater projector.
2nd that.
Has to be , it says Cinema. Must be a high def projector
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.
It's says 'Scarlett' on it. The Scarlet is a camera. That much we already know.
Its a projector, you can see a little lens at the top right, those are probably cable slots in the front
definitely... also says RED DIGITAL CIN(EMA)
Tis a RED polaroid duh
Looks like a Polaroid camera
My thought exactly.
I was thinking the same thing.
It's obviously a 200 megapixel polaroid camera.
Its... expensive
I think you're all off. It's obviously a new and improved DHD with haptic feedback.
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
It's GlaDOS V2
Looks to me like an awesome projector for some reason.
It's a camera with an "Easy" button.
lol
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.
'tis a projector with a large ON button, or it's the Hal9000, either one.
It's a new Polaroid camera.