CDEX Production Junk
So let's just speculate that the prop g4 was built using hacked Ramen equipment and sold to some fools during one of the dog and pony shows. These half baked rip offs are sent out and the users told that cdex would welcome some feed back, thus the "beta" units.
Then "cdex" tells us that poteet and the team are traveling and working. The "labs" are helping cdex define what the machine could do for them, defining who needs this prop and why. Thus bumfield announces "beta" testing and first units deployed, with more deliveries expected.
Years later one user sorta thinks it might be able to use the prop in the kitchen under the sink to ensure returned items are in fact the same ones served up for lunch. Voila! Ready for production!
Expect a sales notice, like a g4 "production" prop has been unloaded at so in so place, success! And like the other Valimed toys there will be just enough sold to keep fools (accredited of course) interested in supplying the perps with big pay checks for nothing, the SCAM continues.