Gizmondo Honcho Gets 18 Months in Fängelse [More Crime]

That’s Swedish for “the slammer.” Bo Eriksson , lesser known for his role heading the failed portable called Gizmondo, more known for bizarre behavior including wrecked cars and arson threats, is headed there. According to the translation from a Swedish radio Web site, Eriksson is looking at 1.5 years in the pen. Some of the charges against him were dismissed, but enough stuck to make a judge seize his passport to keep him from fleeing while the sentence is affirmed. Gizmondo’s history as a short-lived $400 handheld, which crashed in its parent company’s bankruptcy, has the added ignominy of being overshadowed by the man who killed it - Eriksson

- whose wrecking of an illegally imported Ferrari Enzo back in 2006 is far more interesting than any of the 10 titles released for the platform. Of course, Eriksson is such a charming rogue there’s been discussion of his story, and Gizmondo’s, heading to the big screen after a Wired piece on the fiasco was optioned. Prosecutors aren’t calling the verdict a complete success, but Eriksson thinks the 18 months are “very strict,” and his lawyer-mans is mum on word of an appeal. Prison for Eriksson [Sveriges Radio P4 Uppland, via Engadget ]

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