CD Destroyer
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Trying to eat a CD isn’t quite the most effective way to destroy it. Scissors won’t actually work, either. You could spend a lot of money on a shredder, but why would you? You can just buy a CD Destroyer.
Elecom has launched yet another USB device, which can render your CDs/DVDs useless in just five seconds. CD Destroyer is powered by any USB interface that can deliver a 500mA current to the device that makes it usable with any PC or a laptop. The device measures just 60 x 20 x 50 mm and weighs 130 grams. The SCR-CD001 scratches the disk and renders unplayable on any CD/DVD player, and is priced at just $26.72.
Just watch this! I took a completely blank and brand-new CD and placed it into the device. Within seconds, it looked like someone played Spirograph on it. Remember that game? It was so cool! This CD is now completely unreadable! How easy was that?
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32 Comments
ndfootballch
February 5th, 2008
at 5:49am
we’ll cd you later lol
ajhw10
February 5th, 2008
at 5:53am
It’s art!!
podcastbard
February 5th, 2008
at 6:47am
pretty decorations.
Windows Vista Torrent
February 5th, 2008
at 7:15am
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PlayerXT
February 5th, 2008
at 8:48am
Wouldn’t it be better to use that thing on the back of the disc where the data is actuaily written?
eliotschreiner
February 5th, 2008
at 9:07am
why not just take some sandpaper and go over it?
kpslover
February 5th, 2008
at 10:03am
i could just scratch the surface on the floor! Much cheaper!
smartpartsionlover
February 5th, 2008
at 10:48am
id say get an external hd that you encrypt everything on aka digital safe
Seanuk
February 5th, 2008
at 5:14pm
Im sure hi tech government agencies may be able to get something. Not if the disc is blank to start off with! lol
ArchTymeWizard
February 5th, 2008
at 6:17pm
At Blockbuster, we use a auto roller that pokes hundreds of holes into a disc.
mobilephone2003
February 5th, 2008
at 8:51pm
CD Shredder
HertsCast
February 6th, 2008
at 2:50am
Lol, For that disk you need to have a special heavy duty one to make sure no vista can be retrived.
DJMattyf
February 6th, 2008
at 3:17am
The best and most fun way to destory a CD is to put it in the Microwave!!!
Don Davies
February 6th, 2008
at 5:59am
No need to get any software/equipment to destroy CD/DVD’s just put it in a microwave for about 10 seconds. It’s really destroyed. Don
Ted Sbardella
February 6th, 2008
at 7:06am
I just us a drill. - but that makes a better coaster.
latro666
February 6th, 2008
at 7:26am
chirs you’v been a bit more crazy in your latest vids, hehe are you ok?
zeldadevideos
February 6th, 2008
at 10:14am
ill try it
leandroenck
February 6th, 2008
at 10:55am
The other side of CD holds the data… not this face. I could put this CD onto a CD Polisher and extract data from it.
The safest way is to use a knife or scisor on the face of the CD that you write with the CD-Pen.
osxdude
February 6th, 2008
at 11:16am
The geeky ornament. The geeky clock (refrence to CoffeehouseShmuck).
Stan
February 6th, 2008
at 11:17am
Looks like another gimmick to throw more money at. When I have a CD that needs destroying, and I don’t feel like just scratching it up with a key or a knife, I’ll pop it into the microwave for a few seconds. It really does a good job of destroying it. Look to youtube and search for ‘microwave CD’.
Dr. Woo
February 6th, 2008
at 12:09pm
I can save you $26.72 by using a common household appliances. Run the disc through the dishwasher. Turns the disc into a usable ashtray. And if that doesn’t work, try the oven.
Vince
February 6th, 2008
at 1:03pm
It would be possible to recover the cd as the information is stored on the underside of the top layer of the CD and not the bottom of the disc itself..
squeak2199
February 7th, 2008
at 4:29am
damn I was gonna say that! haha
Domexpo
February 8th, 2008
at 8:30am
why dont u just throw on the floor and push it around
HarryH
February 9th, 2008
at 5:02pm
Gee, a few swipes of my knife across the top does a fine job. Yeah maybe someone can recover a few bits, with much effort, but my data isn’t exactly top security stuff. If I really sweated it, the microwave can finish it.
HertsCast
February 9th, 2008
at 10:24pm
Reminded me when I was destroying a hard drive….. with a hammer and a solder.
BladeAssault
February 18th, 2008
at 2:08am
yeah..jus scratch it with a scissor and the cd wont work…
Renatodonadio
February 20th, 2008
at 5:41pm
The easiest way to make a CD unreadable is breaking it by folding. Even if you reattach it, it’s very hard to make the data on the edges match. That gadget is useful if you want use the disc later as a fancy decoration or a clock dial
FantasyMindedMan
March 4th, 2008
at 5:31pm
The data on that cd would have not got distroyed like that. The device did scrape a patten onto the cd! but he did it on wrong side! the data is stored on the non reflective side! on other side. somebody could have still been able to get the data! if they replaced the layer you scratched.
I am just comment this in the hope it will make people do the correct side of the cd. or do both
plank0wner
April 1st, 2008
at 7:42am
The media is in the center of the plastic. All this does is scratch the plastic, while leaving the actual media un-touched. 3 seconds in the microwave does a much better job.
beavkil
April 15th, 2008
at 6:23am
its fun to make them brek into pieces
beavkil
April 15th, 2008
at 6:27am
it is stored on a think metal sheet, if you break one sometimes it comes out