I just seen the actual video of them shutting down the tvs it was a little bit funny at the end. It is still very wrong and not professional.

Very unprofessional. That is to be expected of such an unprofessional site.

Very childish. I'm not too familiar with the laws and terms of that convention, but I am pretty sure that public disturbance such as that can be prosecuted by the legal system. Hopefully those "gizmodo" guys get what they deserve.

That's very wrong and immature, but funny at the same time....

watch the vid, its funny :)

I'm surprise motorola didnt sued them for damage over presentation.

The only time I thought they were out of line was during the Motorola Presentation

Bad enough to do it. Then you record it and show off to try and get hits? Hopefully they get a month in jail. Lets see how funny they think that is.

someone goes to their site and starts having fun with their servers. See how much their advertisers like having the site shut down randomly.

I liked their CES coverage but what they did was plain wrong and stupid.

It's funny yet it is damaging to the reputations of those companies showcasing their technology. People probably thought those products were faulty.

Kotaku is part of Gizmondo also right? serves them right!

every one of you saying "ooooo how unprofessional" not only does more childish things at your job(if your old enough to have one), but also thinks booth babes are professional and love to see them. You're all hipocritic turds. If you are mature enough, youd realise that people in their 30's like to have fun too. Get over yourselves.

After i saw that vid first words outa my mouth wher "Yea there baned" i win a cookie

GizmodOWNED

i thought it was actully funny but to go out and ban them is a little to much it was just a joke cant have fun any more i see every one has to be serious all the time. great job giz still nice to see yall like to have fun now and then!

Playing with someone's money isn't fun. In some places would get you killed. These companies invest a lot of time and money into their displays and presentations.

Time is money. Money is time. Since those guys didn't pay any money...they should take Gizmod's time and put them in jail. Just my opinion. This isn't a joke.

Now if Gizmod did an interview at their respected jobs and mess with someone there on a one on one basis...that would be comedy. At CES? yeah...banned for life.

Next year they will have plenty of links to other websites on new and interesting products. Dumba$$e$.

Sites like these suck. They are run by kids. Companies spend their hard earn money and precious time to cater to retailers and us consumers. Presentations are not easy. Plus Gizmodo could have damaged those expensive LCDs. I miss Techtv where technology was taken more serious with a little fun in it.

I wasn't impressed with how Gizmodo handled the Halo 3 unboxing, and I was less impressed with this. I have a lot of options of where to get my tech news and I've never felt the need to get it from Gizmodo. Too many options to spend clicks on sites like theirs.

Well no comment on the display part ( and hey do it once is ok, do it for multiple times is plain dumb....)

but imagine you are the one presenting, after you get that kind of interupt, you might be able to laugh and say yes its a joke (because its in the public....) but if you tell me you are completely cool with it...you are lying

think again, how many time and preparation they spent on this one particular presentation for the industry, no doubt there is no doubt that they should be banned when they do it while someone is presenting, a word of disrespectful is just the least i could use for mentioning it

*laughs hard* i love that, i love the music on the original video...lol

Gizmodo is proving there is still a difference between professional journalists and bloggers who happen to get paid. Way to take asshat to a new level guys. With the amount of money these companies are spending at shows like CES, gizmodo and Gawker better hope none of these companies find legal reasons to take them to court for damages, especially for their stunts during the press conference.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of the agreement they make in attending this show calls out exactly this sort of behavior as unacceptable.

And if it doesn't already, you better believe it will next year.

What a bunch of idiots. Way to F up people's hard work.

Gizmodo was way over the line with these "pranks" (if true).

I'm glad they did it , needed a good laugh.

Although nobody was hurt. I mean like seriously , as if people think that the final product was gonna be faulty , there's a reason why the word "Prototype" was put in the dictionary.

LOL @ people saying hard work , it's money that makes things and i seriously doubt Motorola just lost 50 million because of what happened at CES.

what makes me think these people spend all their free time going on go on MMO games and griefing people for laughs?

'nuff said.

The video's really funny, watch it. Well, at least, it's funny when they're doing it to random screens when everyone's just milling about, but at the Motorola presentation, it got a little silly.

With that said, I still think everyone's making a mountain out of a molehill here.

A site acted stupid at CES, and got banned from next year's show, so what? Let it go, already.

I generally like most of the gaming site/tech sites out there. But something about these guys, Gizmodo and in-fact Gawker Media in whole, just doesn't appeal to me. Whether it's the unprofessionalism in Gizmodo and Kotaku, or the complete bullshit in Gawker, I just don't or never did like them. This event just shows how incredibly stupid they are. There are many smaller sites otehr than these assholes that deserve the attention Gizmodo/Gawker Media gets. Assholes.

This site seems to be run by 12 year olds.

I thought it was funny. "OMG! mah presentationz! Nohz!" As for "messing with someones livelihood".... Dude it was a multi-billion dollar company, aint nobody going to lose any money because of it and if they did it wouldn't be enough to be called a fraction of the bank those guys make anyway.

They got owned

If i was Motorola i would sue them it made them look terrible on stage, looked like their equipment was totally unreliable and could easily of cost them sales contracts

I dont care about the show floor stuff but an official press conference..