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Razer used to only brand peripherals like its gaming-oriented mechanical keyboards and headphones, only a few years dorsum it started branching out into gaming laptops. The company has taken great pride in showing off its innovations at CES, and this year it took the form of a 4K "VR" projector (Project Ariana) and a wacky triple-screen laptop called Project Valerie. Everyone who saw the hardware seemed to think it was groovy, including the thief who made off with 2 of the prototypes. Ouch.

The company didn't announce the specifics of the theft right away — company CEO Min-Liang Tan simply posted on Facebook that 2 prototypes of some sort had been swiped. Razer later released a statement with more details. Two of the Projection Valerie laptops were apparently left unattended in the printing room around 4PM on Sunday. This was just as the conference was wrapping up, so Razer'southward squad was probably getting prepare to caput abode. Someone in the room took the opportunity to grab the laptops.

Someone might have seen something, considering these are not exactly subtle, easily concealed laptops. Project Valerie is packing three 17.three-inch IGZO LCD displays at 4K resolution in its tiny frame. Well, tiny for a computer with three displays. It's much larger than Razer's other laptops, but the ii side displays pop out on an automated swivel system. When all iii displays are deployed and online, you lot become a single continuous 12K (11520 10 2160) space to piece of work and game. Of course, gaming is the main selling point for Razer.

Powering all that display real estate will naturally require a peachy deal of graphical horsepower. Razer's prototype was powered by a GeForce GTX 1080. It's impressive they were able to cram the hardware in at that place, fifty-fifty with the larger frame. The press at CES was impressed as well. Project Valerie was awarded "Best of CES" by our sister site PCMag.

Razer says it is offering a $25,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the laptop thief. This offering is valid for a year from today, so you'll accept to rails down and turn in the guilty political party by adjacent CES. Anyone with data relating to the instance tin ping Razer at legal@razerzone.com.

If you want to get your hands on Projection Valerie the legitimate fashion, yous'll accept to look a scrap. Even earlier the theft of the hardware, Razer was shying away from launch engagement and pricing talk. Yous tin can register your interest on Razer'due south site, but yous should probably start saving up if you intend to buy one when (and if) Project Valerie is released.