The Most Useless Piece Of Modern Technology

Me_Grapes

What's the most pointless piece of modern equipment that exists today.

For me, it's the ipad/tablet. Just such awkward things to use and to hold. If I want something portable to access media, I'll use my smartphone, and if it's more storage I'll use my portable laptop thank you very much. Currently in hospital with the arm in a sling, and was given one of these to keep me entertained, but the thing is just such a dreg to use, notwithstanding the fact my good arm in incapacitated. I really can't see how these things have taken off.

Anything else that beats the portable tablet in the useless stakes?

(Not sent from my tablet)

jamesbere

3d TVs

DontThankMe

I believe the underwater hairdryer is fairly useless.

Theboinkmaster

That's strange - I have an ipad and I love it.

If I want to do something on the net, iPhone 5 screen is too small and laptop too cumbersome/wait to boot up.

So ipad is perfect - use it every day.

What drugs are they giving you in hospital

antodeco

DontThankMe wrote: »

I believe the underwater hairdryer is fairly useless.

Not as bad as the inflatable dartboard!

jamesbere

antodeco wrote: »

Not as bad as the inflatable dartboard!

The chocolate teapot is hugely disappointing aswell

Firefox11

Me_Grapes wrote: »

What's the most pointless piece of modern equipment that exists today.

For me, it's the ipad/tablet. Just such awkward things to use and to hold. If I want something portable to access media, I'll use my smartphone, and if it's more storage I'll use my portable laptop thank you very much. Currently in hospital with the arm in a sling, and was given one of these to keep me entertained, but the thing is just such a dreg to use, notwithstanding the fact my good arm in incapacitated. I really can't see how these things have taken off.

Anything else that beats the portable tablet in the useless stakes?

(Not sent from my tablet)

I find smartphone screens too small to watch anything or in small doses. My Nexus 2013 7" Tablet is invaluable to me if I need to watch something or surf the web on the go.

I'd be a bit lost without it tbh.

Outlaw Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuN02YWhpw4

Me_Grapes

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

That's strange - I have an ipad and I love it.

If I want to do something on the net, iPhone 5 screen is too small and laptop too cumbersome/wait to boot up.

So ipad is perfect - use it every day.

What drugs are they giving you in hospital

I donno....cumbersome is the exact word I'd use to describe the ipad, at least you can rest the laptop on a surface

Don't know, maybe it is the morphine 😉, but I'm just not a fan.

Beta Ray Bill

I bought me misses an apple watch for Xmas and she turned her nose up at it.

I also bought a 3d TV and 6 sets of active 3d glasses that I've used once

Camera on the TV so that you can use you hand a remote control.... RUBBISH!

Google/Snapchat goggles... More rubbish

Virtual Reality things like the Occulus Rift, novelty will be worn off in about 2 weeks (Same as the Nintendo Scope for the SNES all them years ago)

Self Driving cars... Pointless, will never be cost effective to put 10 Radars and a super computer in every car.

Bluetooth head phones..

Any of them hoovers that claim to have 500% more suction than other hoovers that use cyclone tech. More Crap

List goes on and on.

Hande hoche!

Chip fork.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

This NoPhone pile of crap... the fact people have bought this and the company still exists... beggars belief...

Ted Plain

Dettol's Germy Pump.

Professor Moriarty

jamesbere wrote: »

The chocolate teapot is hugely disappointing aswell

The motorbike ashtray is a big let down. And the lighthouse in a bog became a bit of a white elephant.

Nabber

The Irish e-voting machines.

iPods- just buy an iPhone instead?

The_Valeyard

Think 3d TV was a complete joke so I agree there.


But I love the HTC Vice, great fun, disagree with other posters on that .


But the most useless is the 1200 pound 'Umbrella drone' to hopefully follow you around in the rain.

me_irl

"IOT Devices"... Smart appliances connected to the net (toasters, kettles, fridges, etc)

There's a relevant Twitter account to follow some of these useless yokes.

https://twitter.com/internetof****/status/862264660724252673

^ feck, link doesn't work... just replace the **** with the word "shít".

koumi

I have on of those two in one things, got it as a christmas gift and didn't think I'd use it that much but it turns out its fairly handy, I do have a decent smartfone which is my go to but I actually like having keys and when I need to do a bit quickly pull out the tablet/thing

5rtytry56

Any Nintendo Device.
Although the Nintendo ds was once marketed by Nicole Kidman as a device with educational application you have to be a bit nieve not to see why the ds was made in the first place.

bodhrandude

Nabber wrote: »

The Irish e-voting machines.

iPods- just buy an iPhone instead?

Ipods are better as you don't have to answer them.

ED E

sugarman wrote: »

Smart watches, aside from the heartmonitors built in can people not just take their fecking phones out of their pockets!

You're failing to see the light. They're whopper.

Atoms for Peace

bodhrandude wrote: »

Ipods are better as you don't have to answer them.

And with a lot more storage and battery life.

paleoperson

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Any Nintendo Device.
Although the Nintendo ds was once marketed by Nicole Kidman as a device with educational application you have to be a bit nieve not to see why the ds was made in the first place.

It was made primarily for gaming, it can also be educational. I don't see the difficulty.

Fair enough if you're not a fan of Nintendo products, but to call them "useless" when many people clearly enjoy them a lot is a bit much. I think OP is going more along the lines of functionally useless, as in there's no point to them technologically.

dudara

Curved and 3D TVs

The idrive system in my car - it's terrible!

Conversely to the OP, I love my iPad Mini, always in my handbag!

o1s1n

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Any Nintendo Device.
Although the Nintendo ds was once marketed by Nicole Kidman as a device with educational application you have to be a bit nieve not to see why the ds was made in the first place.

The super Nintendo was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century :pac:

Samuel T. Cogley

Anything Apple.

There was a time they were truly their own thing and did something different, then they were a well made PC with an OS people liked, now they're ****e build quality and panned obsolescence with a OS people like so much no one goes, hang on a minute this is software - why can't I put it on a €300 laptop?

Teledildonics - don't look that up at work.

bbbbb

Digital photo frames

5rtytry56

o1s1n wrote: »

The super Nintendo was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century :pac:

....as proudly sold in TESCO (renowned for their Nintendo EXPERTISE) with Starfox back in the day....,;)

Atticus Jung

Nabber wrote: »

The Irish e-voting machines.

iPods- just buy an iPhone instead?

Didnt ipods come first?

Bluetooth toothbrushes are going to far.

Samuel T. Cogley

Atticus Jung wrote: »

Didnt ipods come first?

Bluetooth toothbrushes are going to far.

Well MP3 players came first, the Jobs did what he did best and stole the idea, and marketed them well and then came iphones. You're right though ipods are a legacy of the time before smart phones.

Tom Mann Centuria

Vegetable spiraliser.

silverharp

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Vegetable spiraliser.

how very dare you :pac: , I am late to the fad but I got one of the "pencil sharpener" ones and its pretty good.

Samuel T. Cogley

What are deez yokes?

murpho999

Nabber wrote: »

The Irish e-voting machines.

iPods- just buy an iPhone instead?

They weren't actually Irish.

Dutch as far as I know and it was Ireland that raised the query on them and we deserve credit for that.

Many countries including The Netherlands gone back to manual voting because of it.

Parchment

Those QR codes.

Decuc500

3D tv’s are on the way out but I have to say I get good use out of mine.

I love ‘immersing’ myself in a 3D blu-ray film. The Hobbit films looked great in that format.

Samuel T. Cogley

THE WEST WING
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JOSH
So, I had this meeting with NASA this morning.

LEO
What a waste, since the moon. My generation never got the future it was
promised.

JOSH
What do you mean?

LEO
35 years later, cars, air travel's the same. We don't even have the Concorde
anymore. Technology stopped.

JOSH
The personal computer.

LEO
A more efficient delivery system for gossip and pornography. Where's my jet
pack, my colonies on the Moon? Just a waste.

Crazyteacher

Dyson animal. The most awkward machine ever. Had to buy a cheap light Hoover and it's 100 times better.

fizzypish

Selfie sticks.

They bother me greatly......

Beta Ray Bill

o1s1n wrote: »

The super Nintendo was one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century :pac:

Indeed it was...

However a great many nintendo products missed the mark

Nintendo Scope (Giant Bazooka that needed C or D size batteries)
Nintendo Wii (Hailed a huge success when it came out due to the controller, but by the end of Stephens Day most people had enough of it)
Nintendo 64DD
R.O.B
Famicom 3D System
Power Pad
Etc
etc

They made a great console, but also made a hell of a lot a crap to sell with it.

floatwinner

koumi wrote: »

I have on of those two in one things, got it as a christmas gift and didn't think I'd use it that much but it turns out its fairly handy, I do have a decent smartfone which is my go to but I actually like having keys and when I need to do a bit quickly pull out the tablet/thing

My head hurts after reading that.

callaway92

Parchment wrote: »

Those QR codes.

Sure they're pretty much extinct already in fairness.

Duckjob

Not modern in the techie sense, but whenever I see a guy outside with a leaf-blower I just think "WHY?"

paulbok

Decuc500 wrote: »

3D tv’s are on the way out but I have to say I get good use out of mine.

I love ‘immersing’ myself in a 3D blu-ray film. The Hobbit films looked great in that format.

I'm glad something was able to improve them.

paulbok

Duckjob wrote: »

Not modern in the techie sense, but whenever I see a guy outside with a leaf-blower I just think "WHY?"

Have you ever tried sweeping grass or leaves off gravel drives?

368100

Parchment wrote: »

Those QR codes.

This......

useless

storker

iTunes for the way it puts ridiculous barriers in place to do the same thing I can achieve with a simple copy and paste on Android. And it has one of the worst-designed user interfaces I've ever seen.

Smartwatches which look like nothing more than a solution in search of a problem.

circadian

The Eye

Got an iPhone? Here's a case that adds an Android phone to it.

Ri_Nollaig

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Think 3d TV was a complete joke so I agree there.


But I love the HTC Vice, great fun, disagree with other posters on that .


But the most useless is the 1200 pound 'Umbrella drone' to hopefully follow you around in the rain.

Have to agree, the 3D TVs were definitely a joke but for a long time any good TV came with it anyway. Its funny how 3D has done multiple iterations of the years, wonder if there will be another in 10, 20 years time.

I kinda, agree with the VR headsets, atleast the current generation. I have a vive as well and while it is impressive and great technology. Most of the best applications are glorified tech demos, Google Earth VR for example. With the exception of any "cockpit" based games, I dunno if it will ever take off [pardon the pun]. Perhaps Fallout VR might change my opinion on this.

razorblunt

grahambo wrote: »

Self Driving cars... Pointless, will never be cost effective to put 10 Radars and a super computer in every car.

.

You're right, everyone knows driverless cars will become 10000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.

Samuel T. Cogley

circadian wrote: »

The Eye

Got an iPhone? Here's a case that adds an Android phone to it.

Actually while that is total bollocks Kickstarter in general has been a bit of a gathering area for the stupid and poorly thought out.