'The Claw' - Sanyo's CD/DVD Media Destroyer

A look at "The Claw" -- a machine made by Sanyo to destroy CDs and DVDs.

[Gabito]

Imagine someone accidentally putting a valuable CD into this, thinking it was a CD player.

[potatocouchtwo]

No way, they turned younger siblings into a machine. Technology truly is incredible.

[KRAFTWERKK]

You have selected Microsoft SAM as this CD's default vooooiiiice.

[despairchanpu]

I know a couple of kids who essentially serve the same function when it comes to most forms of technology, but they do it for completely free.

[JamesPotts]

At work, I've seen the shredders that handle hard drives. Those are impressive.

[EpicTyphlosionTV]

Playstation 2 Slim: "Finally, a worthy opponent!"

[themaritimegirl]

Someone needs to edit in the Law & Order sound effect every time you read "THE CLAW!".

[Larry]

Quite amazed people had enough discs in their life that they needed an arbitary device to destroy them. I'm guessing this was more for offices, rather than home use?

[kingding]

Imagine being old and mistaking this for a CD reader

[maxisk]

And you can put it in multiple times.
CD: "Oh god, stop! Not again!

[liquidphoenix]

My sense of humor is so ruined I absolutely died when I saw the Microsoft Sam Gettysburg Address CD

[timmy]

I work in healthcare, specifically Radiology/Medical imaging, and we make a TON of CDs for patients/doctors/lawyers etc. While watching this video at first I thought "Oh my goodness, this is so cool and useful!" At a previous job, we paid a company to take away our discard CDs. At the job I'm at now, we have a super noisy shredder that destroys the CDs, creating plastic shrapnel in the process. As I watched the video, I realized that this product wouldn't help us at all, as it doesn't do anything to destroy anything written on the CD. Our CD burning robot prints a label with the patient's name directly on the CD (using a thermal printer). Cool product, but useless for my needs.

[NanoBurger]

In the Army, while working in G3 planning shops we used to render CDs unusable by putting them into a microwave for a few seconds. Once the fireworks are over with, the CD is unreadable by anything.

[kopshi]

"Four soi and seven years ago" got me pretty good lol

[kwirkLA]

I love that you had an old CD of Microsoft Sam reading the Gettysburg Address lying around to test this

[TwoBlackMarks]

This actually solved part of a mystery for me.
This has to be where alot of people stored their Playstation discs in the 90s.
In this, and as coasters, frisbees and gravelpile flatening devices.

[LancerloverLL]

4:55 That's a really cool opening mechanism.

[MichiganPeatMoss]

In 1996, our first child's baby stroller was adorned with those very much available AOL discs as "hub caps". :)

[thepenultimateninja]

I've always just popped them in the microwave for a couple of seconds. Completely fries the metallic layer, and it's cool to watch too.

[earthling]

Yeah, best to just get a paper shredder. More than one use in one machine then.