Destroy Your Mouse for Shot at a Free Razer Mamba
Posted 01/21/09 at 02:30:24 PM by Paul Lilly
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We wouldn't advise strapping a brick of Black Cat fireworks to a perfectly good computer mouse, but if you have an old rodent laying around just taking up space in your PC parts bin, you now have an excuse to put it to sleep in the most inhumane manner you can think of. That's because gaming peripheral maker Razer is asking users to submit a YouTube video of "how you trashed your old mouse to stand a chance to win the Razer Mamba," which is Razer's new hybrid gaming mouse.
Razer showed off the Mamba at this year's CES, which features a hybrid wired/wireless design in a shell that looks very similar to the company's DeathAdder. The new mouse is set to go on sale in February with an MSRP of $130. The deadline to enter the contest is January 30, with winners to be announced on February 17, 2009.
Razer hasn't said how many winners it will select or what the criteria will be, but this isn't the first time the gaming peripheral company has tasked users with destroying hardware for a chance at trading up. Razer ran a similar contest with its Tarantula keyboard, in which 5 winners were selected.
Don't plan on entering but still have a cool idea on how to destroy a mouse? Hit the jump and share!
Damn, could of won one...
Submitted by NayC on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 3:40am
If only I knew about this competition earlier...
We built a trebuchet that could launch small rocks (around the size of a fist) for about 75m-100m. Then got a metal bucket and used petrol to set things on fire, and launched them...
Or, when I went up in the hercules open back military plane, I could of chucked it into the sea from 10,000ft. Damn.
Or launched it from the local clay-pigeon launcher, and shot it with a shotgun. Maybe set it on fire too....
Either way I like the idea of strapping it to a big firework... may do that for fun.
Submitted by hogkill on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 9:23am
I'm sure there will be people who will destroy perfectly good mice, in which case Razer promoting waste production. Im glad I never bought one of their mice, what with the "omg teh razers are for uber 1337 gamerz" marketing.
Logitech's high end mice are a lot better made than Razer's anyhow, probably in part because they don't need to markup prices to make up for idiotic advertising costs.
I'm a gunsmith so I'm trying
Submitted by whitneymr on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:14pm
I'm a gunsmith so I'm trying to decide between running through it with milling machine or putting a .45 caliber bullet through it.
Submitted by Hamerlock on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 1:12pm
I could call in a favor and have a mouse put on one of the targets at a bombing range in Nevada, geting the BDA video before the deadline would be the problem.
Who cares about the stupid
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 1:30pm
Who cares about the stupid give away that would just be cool.... We ought to just do things like this for the fun of it. Like all those years ago David Letterman would run stuff over with a steam roller and would end the segment by running over his microphone.. LOL.. And don't forget the entertainment that Gallagher provided by smashing things with his Sledge-O-Matic.... LOL... that was great. I remember smashing things usually my brothers and sitsters things with a steel hammer from out of dads tool box.. Those were the days. My biggest thing was smashing things that were in operation.
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 12:44pm
I've turned into a fan of Will it Blend and the whole Microwave it videos on youtube and I imagine alot mice are going to meet their end in that fashion. Since I have access to the City Bus I should take an old mouse with me to work and a digi cam and run a mouse over with a City of Phoenix Public Transit Bus or go to the Light Rail yard and put one on a track and have a light rail train run one over. There's plenty of fun ways to kill old hardware that I'll only think about and never really do.. God it's terrible being lazy and not really in need of a new mouse.
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