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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)

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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

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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.

[Deleted User]

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.

Ted Plain

Duckjob wrote: »

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

Profoundly useless. Surely they should be a sort of vacuum cleaner and suck instead of blow, no?

Off on a tangent; I remember seeing one of those shows about people with OCD a few years back and one of the participants said that they hoover their lawn daily. :eek:

Forward a couple of years and I now have artificial grass in my postage stamp-sized back garden.

I absolutely love my artificial grass. Could not recommend it highly enough.

And now I vacuum clean my lawn from time to time! :pac:

allthedoyles

The curved tv's . Sales have been so poor that none were manufactured in 2017

gerrybbadd

Touchless germ pumps for hand soap. Entirely pointless. "oh, but you'll get germs off the pump handle" they try and sell you.

But, when the liquid comes out of that pump, it's meant to kill germs anyways. FFS

the_syco

DontThankMe wrote: »

I believe the underwater hairdryer is fairly useless.

Sometimes you gotta use it, as the underwater towel isn't dry yet....

Jayop

grahambo wrote: »

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.

Most of that list I agree with, but self driving cars will be ubiquitous in a few years to the point that only the rich will be able to drive a normal car.

And Bluetooth headphones are already taking over from wired ones. They're brilliant and much better than the old tech.

Samuel T. Cogley

Jayop wrote: »

Most of that list I agree with, but self driving cars will be ubiquitous in a few years to the point that only the rich will be able to drive a normal car.

And Bluetooth headphones are already taking over from wired ones. They're brilliant and much better than the old tech.

I knew this was coming along at some point. Why are the proponents of self driving cars so sure they're just around the corner and will be the second coming of our Lord and Saviour?

We won't see self driving cars for decades for the simple reason people don't like change. FFS Most people won't drive an automatic. What we will see is more and more of the technology built in as safety features but fully self driving cars, not much before 2040 if even then.

bonzodog2

razorblunt wrote: »

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.

Do you work for IBM ? :rolleyes:

jimgoose

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Do you work for IBM ? :rolleyes:

Probably not, but I do. He was quoting one Professor John Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr.

jimgoose

In terms of making eejits of us all and doing human society disservice generally, I'd say it's hard to beat Ye Booke of Faeces.

crossmolinalad

murpho999 wrote: »

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.

And now the last news from the dutch they gonna use them again
they have changed the program and should work fine now and willing to test some next year when the local polls goes on