[VIDEO] Man steals Nintendo 3DS from Chinese production line

A Nintendo 3DS has been stolen from a Chinese factory, more than eight weeks before the device goes on sale in Japan. The anonymous thief has since taken photos and shot footage of the console, spreading evidence of their crime Internetwide.

While this act doesn’t actually achieve much (the console doesn’t even turn on, and the perpetrator certainly can’t put it on Ebay, unless she/he wants to lose their job), I’m still weirdly jealous that someone has a 3DS on their mantelpiece.

Scroll down for a nice comparison shot of the nabbed (and very, very glossy) handheld next to its many predecessors, and a video (which I don’t expect to hang around for long). How long before some miscreant nabs a working 3DS?:

[TGBus, via Kotaku]