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  • The compound Data Dots uses for application is patented and extremely difficult to remove. A damaged item would have little value to thieves. As of 2011, hundreds of Americans cities (growing) Now have training and equipment to detect Data Dot marked items. Data Dots are cheap, quick and easy to apply (many dots per item). Police are checking items daily (pawn shops are starting to check). Millions of $ of stolen property is being recovered . DETERRENCE+DETECTION+RECOVERY= CRIME PREVENTION!

  • ultimate theft protection???

    it doesnt protect your stuff. it just proves its yours AFTER its been robbed. it really doesnt help at all, because stuff is easy to prove its yours anyway. shitty product :D

  • @TheeGrandmaster i dare you to tell this to some one who works there. it is a must in Austraila on all cars and it has brought car theft down there and other places along with copper, electronics,. a lojack can be placed in only a few places in a car and is easy to remove, whereas DataDot DNA has a min of 1000 dots to remove and can be placed anywhere on a car.

  • Anyone who thinks this is good should be shot in the face!

  • I don't want to be shot in the face!

  • @tuinal have you ever used this product?

  • Are you lot fucking stupid, i am not blaming technological for my cousins death you pillocks..i am just saying there is more to life than guarding over material goods that have a 3 year life span..DICKHEADS!

    No i dont want my DNA sprawned over some DVD made in bloody taiwan..FFS..only place i want my DNA is in my family..end off!

  • you sound like your choking on a cock

  • the enthusiasm in the narrators voice is chronic

  • lame, people can steal just the same, another worthless product. if you want to sell it after u steal it just hold it under blacklight and scratch it off

  • If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours

  • LOL

  • People like tracielaurens are idiots for passing on those stupid bullshit messages that everyone knows is crap.

  • fuck, this guy makes it sound sooooooo *yawn* exiting..

    and it doesnt 'protect' anything, leave that to good old fashioned guns and locks.

  • In order to protect my valuables, I always use a magic marker to write my social security number on everything I own. That way, the thief will know that it does not belong to them, so they won't steal it! Way cheaper too!!

  • Awesome! So thieves can still take your stuff, but if they try to sell it? You can prove that it's yours! But only of the hock shop owner reports the goods... or if the thief hasn't scratched off the dot... or if the thief hasn't just sold it on the street, or is using it themselves... and your goods are still just as easy to swipe.

  • At the end of the day it is only material goods with a life value of a few years, why go through some possible personal shit that could be hacked into for a DVD or plasma tv...not worth it! Our privacy, health, family is worth much more..lost my cousin to a cancer last week, who cares about this crap! Science and tecnology is screwing up the world..big time!

  • yes, it is very sad that your 'cousin died to a cancer' last week, however if we didn't have science or technology, there would be no way to get rid of cancer whatsoever... People wouldn't even live long enough to ever worry about cancer! so please, think before saying something stupid.

  • do you people read as your are typing? Surely you'd ask yourself if you're on crack. "it is very sad that your cousin died of cancer last week however if we didn't have science and technology people wouldn't even live long enough to ever worry about cancer"

    freakin' rofl. You know nothing about cancer. Since even kids can get cancer I think we always live long enough to worry over cancer. Also, a lot of technology causes cancer, along with products of technology.

  • true, kids do get cancer, and some technology can be bad, ddt anyone?

    but still, if we didn't have any technology whatsoever, then where would all of us be?! In the jungle somewhere running after food, with our own bear hands, cause remember - a stick used to kill something is technology, although very primitive.

    So what would you rather? being extremely primitive, living without youtube!? or living as you do with the many benefits but some dangers that technology brings?

  • 1st of all, this isn't your dna (and that can be replicated easily). 2nd, considering how few items on the market are marked with this, it is unlikely police will look for it in the first place or scan your item using microscopy. Write down your serial numbers.

  • I don't want any motherfucker using my DNA, If I wanna beat on a cop or steal stuff I don't want you using my DNA to find me BIG BROTHER I H8 U*!

  • If you beat up a cop or steal stuff, you SHOULD be hunted down...moron. I dislike the idea of Big Brother but if it catches twats like you; "WE HAIL DNA TECHNOLOGY!"

  • "a special water-based adhesive" called glue

  • this is the thing: with a padlock, nobody can take it. with this, it has a number on it. big whoop. there's no guarantee anyone will even see it.

  • How would you even find it? Besides, couldnt you just wash the dots off?

  • Why don't they put a GPS on the datadot..

    Put a smaller chip inside of it, then the cops will go to it. Pwned.

  • I don't want my old stuff back - I want the new stuff that my insurance will buy me.

  • What if someone puts their own datadot one someone elses stuff??

  • ERr on someone elses stuff. heh.

  • Lol it doesn't have any utility ^^

  • ok you guys need to look at a bigger picture instead of expecting the government to do every thing. if every retailer repairer ect ran a light over each item that came though the door and checked on the data base wellll and perhaps he company can give a reward of some kind to do so.

  • totally stupid

  • this is just silly, just because u put ur signature on ur 10 dollar bill doesnt mean u will get it back...

  • product it markets is worse than just using a standard locking mechanisms because only thing required to remove those dots would be to just wipe it off with a tower or cloth since.

    Criminals aren't going to simply try to pawn it, so that takes away the possibility that's going to be detected and even if it is the pawn brokers don't care. they just want to make money themselves they are most likely going to over look it and just sell it as quick as they can.

  • well its only a 10% chance they will even find it!

  • Here in UK we use something called "smartwater". much better, basically a pen with invisible ink that only shows up in UV light. Much easier for everybody to use!

  • all bullshit ok lol ok so yea its got ur own lil number on it woohoo um if you live in an area like me the police are so fuckin stupid that theyll be like wtf and not know shit about anything so thx DATADOT for all the bullshit ur feeding america =]

  • ahhh the point of the dot isnt for location, its for identification.

    its not going to find your property, but if someone trys to pawn it then itll be matched to a database where you registrered it as stolen and there you go.

    also, alot of crimes are commited by people you know, so if that asswipe at school just got a new ipod after yours was stolen then theres a way to prove it.

  • cbarnes71 is right, anyways data dot. Common i can buy a ultra violet light, find the dot, scrape it off and put mine on. And anyways this dots probably gonna cost quite a bit.

  • its an interesting concept, maybe now ill put my 'dot' on everything i steal.

  • this is ... shit

    "datadot sticks with your valubles wherever they go!"

    yeah great, how the fuck do you know where they went

    calling it theft protection is wrong

  • ok so your new DVD player has been stolen. some jerk has sold it at a Garage sale (car boot over in the UK) how is having a stupid lil microscopic number going to bring that player back?

  • Thats right guy!!! all shit!

  • BULL SHIT!!

  • Pointless. C'mon poeple, let's not fall for more of this 'mark of the beast' shit.

  • so i'm basically going to go through every household in america in order to find my stolen ipod so the police can read these data dots? useless still why not make a fuckin tracking device or something...

  • ummm wierd my replys go to top of page, well that was for user: emptypub

  • Just becareful out there, the government is slowly trying to get us to fingerprints, DNA, eye iris and biometrics...for micro chips and all of this to be loaded on a data base...dangerous, everything can be hacked into and stolen!..this stuff is light, but in my opinion dont go there!

  • This is totally useless unless the police know who stole the item, in which case the datadot is irrelevant. I.e. the datadot is totally worthless.

  • all a thief needs to do is clean a stolen object with alcohol (CD Cleaner type spray) and bingo its clean of the datadot.

  • If it was also a tracking device, it would be really helpful!! And the guy who's talking is a little weird; he gets a bit too excited at times.

  • people should be more careful.

  • interesting, but only useful if the item is somehow recovered....plus, someone unknowingly buying a stolen good would probably not notice the data dot

  • A terrorist hacker could hack into are DNA, AND use it, change it and abuse it? Imagine your whole essence of who you are on a database? Dangerous!

  • a question - do you have a brain in that head of yours? The DNA is representative, its not your ACTUAL DNA, that'd make a serial millions of digits long.

    Go back to junior high!

  • ummm yeah They sorta ment "DNA" as a metaphore like how we can be identified by our DNA because it is specific to eachperson, your goods are simply protected by a ID or "DNA" that is specific to only your item. :P But yes I do share your concern in other matters that deal with archiving our personal identities...like google !!!!

  • This is demonic, and it only material goods. Selling your soul to the devil and spreading out your DNA on everything to place on a database is a bad move. more technology there is the more we are accessible to crimes we can never control..or know anything about!

  • Useless.

  • lol what a dump stuff

    just write down or make a photocopy of the S/N or P/N of the object and that's the same shit

    no one will recovery it anyway, lol

  • ummmm, y not jsut write your name on your stuff? XD

  • bet they all get tha same so tha person hu made it getz bare shit off ppl lol

  • it's completely idiot. it shows my bike without lock but with this satellite tracker... ..... ...........

  • Maverick is right.

    This is pointless

  • Unless these dots have a trackers on them that can be detected by satalite, no reason to fall for shit like this.

  • GardedByMonkeys is my Xbox Gamertag send me a friend invite want to see if this works

  • "Only 10% of those valuables are ever recovered"

    And this 10% would somehow increase if people stuck what looks like glue and a speck of dirt on their possessions how?

    Wait, maybe you're supposed to glue the item to your hand?

    Or better yet, why not just glue a few strands of hair (aka- ACTUAL DNA) to the item instead?

  • What does it do? Its just a damn serial number. It doesnt stop crime....

  • hi whot is it??????????????????

  • "the ultimate theft protection"... how exactly does it stop it from getting stolen?

  • Um

    What thief would steal something with these hard to see dots on it?

    Duh.

  • it would be better said that data dots help recover stolen goods, in time the world will be awash with data dots, and their use will fade into the everyday.

  • You know why we need that kind of protection? IT'S BECAUSE (9/11) OK! that why uncle Ben!

  • DUMB dah DUM-DUM DUMB!

  • This serves the same purpose as a serial number.

  • This is actually completly real technology. If you did some research, you'd find that out right away. Google datadoddna for the main company's website. They also have several distributors around the world.

  • the dots contain a tracking device and are turn on when reported stolen the item can be tracked to with in 3ft any where n the planet ..so if you think you are gonna find the dots then the chances are you will be cought before you find them and you can add as many as your kit will allow ..gr8 tool ....just dont eat one lol

  • the ad mentions nothing about a tracking device. how would you fit a tracking device into something that small?! LOL the dot is encoded with a code that is registered to the owner, so that in the event a stolen item is recovered or found, it can be positively identified as belonging to the owner and returned. that's all it is. still not a bad idea, would work best for things like bikes since it's hard to prove that a resold stolen bike is actually yours.

  • i know bcouse i use them my self look it up you might learn sumit.....nowa days motors are made so small you cant even see them ....but yes there is also a code..

  • if the technology to make a microscopic device like that even exists(which i doubt), it is not known or available to the general public. And if it was it would not be "inexpensive" like the datadots, it would be atronomically expensive. I don't need to look it up to know that you are clueless.

  • go back to basics!.....and cheap shots will get you no where

  • hehe my dad has somthing similar on his motorbike

  • when they steal, your stuff, dont they also stealthe data dots? waste of money

  • exactly, and when stolen objects are confiscated, they find them and give them back (or so they say) the cops around here probably don't even know what a "DataDot" is

  • The dots "stick with your posessions", so, how can you get them back? You need to find the thief first!

  • Lol yeah... doesnt help that much...

  • ok ok, next time i steal anything, im going to check for dots using ultraviolet light, and mag glass, thanks for sharing the new anti theft idea... now i know what to look for.

  • where do i get this

  • blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

  • Who ever send this gay chain mail is a pure idiot

  • I will die

  • this assumes that the criminals are stupid enough to get caught and half all their stuff seized before they have sold it.

    not likely, sorry.

    this also assumes that the cops will also be LOOKING for this small company's obscure, exotic, and unheard of mark on the device, even though they have never been trained for it.

    bravo.

  • She died

  • Possibly more efective than marking things with one of those invisible pens which were never actually invisible in anycase. But UV lights are fairly inexpensive. One would imagine any committed thief or fence could easily find these and remove or replace them.

  • scascAC

  • Does anyone actually use this?

  • Um..thieves can slap these little dots on all your property and claim them as theirs when your belongings get stolen. Good idea? I think not.

  • lol good call!

  • I'd have to agree with you here---someone could easily put their dots on your valuables and claim your shit as theirs in any place where these dots are valid and checked for.

  • this could posably work if cops would look for somthink like this

  • you can get lojack for bikes, luggage, laptops and boats now too. I don't think this will work b/c cops wont eve look for the data dot and prob wont know what it is when if they found it.

  • If it's gonna risk getting stolen, you probably don't 'need' it anyway. You slave away and buy/borrow for things that someone else will get who hardly break a sweat swiping 'em? Just like the Crack Spider...Heh heh heh!

    Word to the wise: Don't be the crack spider's bitch! ;-)

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  • haha.. they can quickly return the item to its rightfull owner.... only IF recovered by authorities. What percent of stolen stuff are actually recovered by authorities? Now if it had gps tracking, that would be great.

  • youve got a point there

  • exactly what i was thinking

  • the gps would probaly cost more then the item

  • LOL