Whats the most useless piece of technolagy that you ever bought?

CorkMan_ · 27-04-2016 03:50PM

For me it's a camera. Bought a Samsung Digital one two years ago, then got a HTC One and use it ever since. I can't remember the last time I used the camera.

KeithTS · 27-04-2016 03:53PM

jester77 wrote: »

I had a few of these and thought they were great, much better than portable CD players and less skipping. Def one of the better products before digital music was available.

I am toying with ordering the most useless thing ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xCd55oSgO4

lego rocks

you know MiniDisc and CD's are digital music right....
Also loved my MD player though, best piece of kit ever, you could edit songs to a 28 frame per second accuracy which was a nice selling point

neris · 27-04-2016 03:54PM

a "Jordan F1" steering wheel for my PS1 at the end of the last century.

RobbingBandit · 27-04-2016 03:54PM

A gizmondo, who wants to touch me!!!

Dyr · 27-04-2016 04:00PM

Technolagy?
Technolageee?

Sky plus of course

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

Ruu · 27-04-2016 04:02PM

SD Card picture viewer, plug into telly to look at photos.

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Nokia N-Gage

I still have mine but my brother ended up getting a virus on it, so it is just a brick now. Sims Bustin' Out, FIFA, all great games!

TerrorFirmer · 27-04-2016 04:04PM

AMKC wrote: »

No way would have loved one of them back in the day. I remember they sold the last ones for 90euro I think but only heard about it the next day a bit late then. Would have bought one had I off known.

I had the original and the QD, they were actually pretty sound from a tech point of view with some great 'Ngage' games and access to hundreds of games, emulators, movie players, etc due to the popular symbian platform. Just crap as phones - disaster trying to market a device like that as a phone as well.

I got fantastic use out of mine though. Would call it a flop, yes, but doesn't make the console itself useless. It could do so much more than any other handheld console could.

jayo26 · 27-04-2016 04:12PM

Ngage was a great phone it was just about 6 years too early i loved mine and fell in love with the sims on Ngage.

The first one was a bummer having to take battery out to change the game but second one was brilliant.

smash · 27-04-2016 04:13PM

fancy pigeon wrote: »

CD data destroyer. This one

There was more fun smashing them and far cheaper too

At least you didn't fall for the DVD rewinder!

major bill · 27-04-2016 04:17PM

Spent big money on an Apple Watch, dont think it's quite useless but as costs go it is definate something I bought that I simply cannot justify

when asked ''what does it do'' I can't give an answer

StillThinking · 27-04-2016 04:28PM

poa wrote:

Windows 10. I wish I had stayed on Windows 7, much better. 10 fights a constant battle Edge v Google Chrome. And don't get me started on Taskbar glitches. It basically ignores my settings and does what it likes. Free upgrade? Yes, free for a reason. Its ****e.

After months of fighting with windows 10 and cortana and start bar not working and having to google a million and one fixes I finally had enough and wiped my laptop. I'm not that tech savy but done a bit of research and downloaded zorin for my laptop, best thing I ever done.

As for useless tech I would say my spiralizer was the worse, only really works with courgettes and I don't like them, after it sitting in the cupboard for a month after its one and only use I chucked it in the bin

Dyr · 27-04-2016 04:30PM

The cowon q5w, it was an attempt at a tablet type device before we had tablets. Ran windows CE on an ARM chip (shudder) the wireless card could'nt handle 90% of the wifi connections out there so it was basically useless. Even funnier, it had an old fashioned radio style aerial to help with the wifi signal so you could look like a complete tool and still not get internet access

It was basically a very nice media player that was the size of a brick and cost the guts of 400 quid

Olishi4 · 27-04-2016 04:35PM

Probably one of those digital photo frames. I hardly ever turn it on.

Wibbs · 27-04-2016 04:40PM

major bill wrote: »

Spent big money on an Apple Watch, dont think it's quite useless but as costs go it is definate something I bought that I simply cannot justify

when asked ''what does it do'' I can't give an answer

I think they're a cool bit of tech MB, but ultimately pretty useless. A solution looking for a problem that doesn't quite exist. Now I will buy one in a few years time when they're dirt cheap and wear it just as a watch with all the other features off. I think they're a very pretty and very well made design. I've held a few smart watches and the quality of them and their bracelets really stood out among the rest. The daftest is the TAG Heuer one. Pointless.

Most of the tech stuff I've bought has been generally OK TBH. I wouldn't be an early adopter type so that likely helps. I wait to hear others saying yay or nay. The only thing I can think of is a Dyson vacuum cleaner. Utterly shíte IMH. I suppose it would be grand in some swanky floor boarded loft, but a three dollar hooker has more suction power. Beyond useless on carpet, it just pushes most of the dust around. The handheld is not much better though handy for the car. At a pinch.

Penn · 27-04-2016 04:59PM

Oh yeah, in an effort to lose weight, I also bought a juicer for making vegetable juices.

I'd have been better off doing a Homer Simpson and just squeezing them against my head. The amount of veg you need to get even a little bit of juice is an even greater waste of money. Not to mention the amount of cleaning the thing needed.

Vegetable Juice... who the f*ck thought that'd be a good idea? How did I fall for that? Vegetables don't f*cking have any juice.

Mr. CooL ICE · 27-04-2016 05:30PM

Penn wrote: »

Oh yeah, in an effort to lose weight, I also bought a juicer for making vegetable juices.

I'd have been better off doing a Homer Simpson and just squeezing them against my head. The amount of veg you need to get even a little bit of juice is an even greater waste of money. Not to mention the amount of cleaning the thing needed.

Vegetable Juice... who the f*ck thought that'd be a good idea? How did I fall for that? Vegetables don't f*cking have any juice.

"Barman: Here you are, sir. One prolytic digestive enzyme shake.
James Bond: Do me a favor, will you? Throw that down the toilet. Cut out the middleman."

-Spectre

esforum · 27-04-2016 07:03PM

3d blu ray player for my father for Christmas, still in the ****ing box and that was 3 years ago.

esforum · 27-04-2016 07:03PM

Penn wrote: »

Oh yeah, in an effort to lose weight, I also bought a juicer for making vegetable juices.

I'd have been better off doing a Homer Simpson and just squeezing them against my head. The amount of veg you need to get even a little bit of juice is an even greater waste of money. Not to mention the amount of cleaning the thing needed.

Vegetable Juice... who the f*ck thought that'd be a good idea? How did I fall for that? Vegetables don't f*cking have any juice.

also juicing isnt good for losing weight, sorry

Graham · 27-04-2016 07:11PM

It would be a close tie between a Psion MC400 and an Apple Newton

Cee-Jay-Cee · 27-04-2016 07:45PM

I had a beer gut in my late 20's and so in an effort to lose it without having to reduce my beer intake I bought one of those ab-toner belts. I used it once for about 15 minutes, noticed no difference afterwards (as if one 15 minute session would have made a difference) and threw it in a drawer, where it sat for about 6 years till I threw it in the bin.

I also bought a top of the range mini disc player in 2003/2004, never used it and clogged it on eBay for half nothing a few months later.

dubgurl · 27-04-2016 07:56PM

The camcorders with the tiny cassette tapes, should have got the DVD type camcorder. Now the camcorder is broken and have no way to recover the cassette tapes, as they never thought of manufacturing a device to read the tapes!

Dubwat · 27-04-2016 08:11PM

My mother got a new car one year so I bought her a puncture repair kit as an Xmas present. It was one of those kits where you'd plug it into the cigarette lighter and it would pump enough gunk into the tyre to get you home. The male part of my brain was super impressed with it.

Little did I realise that if my mother did get a puncture, I would be the 'tool' she'd phone to fix it

Wibbs · 27-04-2016 08:15PM

Dubwat wrote: »

My mother got a new car one year so I bought her a puncture repair kit as an Xmas present. It was one of those kits where you'd plug it into the cigarette lighter and it would pump enough gunk into the tyre to get you home. The male part of my brain was super impressed with it.

Yeah that reminds me I got a similar mini air compressor to pump up the car tyres. The early days of buying "cheap" shíte in Lidl. And shíte it most certainly was. Plug it into the ciggie lighter and off it would put put and fart and an hour later would have transferred a couple of hundred atoms oxygen and nitrogen. I'd have been better off blowing into the tyre myself.

sunnysoutheast · 27-04-2016 08:19PM

I had a graphic equaliser in my stack of hi-fi separates.

Also had a force feedback joystick to play MS flight simulator on a 14" monitor. Played it twice, maybe.

Edward Hopper · 27-04-2016 08:20PM

dubgurl wrote: »

The camcorders with the tiny cassette tapes, should have got the DVD type camcorder. Now the camcorder is broken and have no way to recover the cassette tapes, as they never thought of manufacturing a device to read the tapes!

Plenty of places will transfer them for you, not that cheap to do, but I got some copied last year. Google mini dv to dvd or whatever tape you have and it should throw up some places.

bodhrandude · 27-04-2016 08:42PM

StillThinking wrote: »

After months of fighting with windows 10 and cortana and start bar not working and having to google a million and one fixes I finally had enough and wiped my laptop. I'm not that tech savy but done a bit of research and downloaded zorin for my laptop, best thing I ever done.

As for useless tech I would say my spiralizer was the worse, only really works with courgettes and I don't like them, after it sitting in the cupboard for a month after its one and only use I chucked it in the bin

What in the name of god is a 'Spiralizer'?

Dyr · 27-04-2016 08:47PM

sunnysoutheast wrote: »

I had a graphic equaliser in my stack of hi-fi separates.

Also had a force feedback joystick to play MS flight simulator on a 14" monitor. Played it twice, maybe.

Is it a sidewinder force feedback? Do you still have it?

People will pay good money for them still, they were discontinued about 15 years ago but they're one of the most highly regarded joysticks in the simming community.

Ally Dick · 27-04-2016 08:47PM

Tefal Actifry chip maker. Made nice chips. After a few weeks, there was a smell of burning and the thing never worked again. Same happened my father in law's one

colm_mcm · 27-04-2016 08:47PM

Philips Streamium. Overpriced device that grabs your music from your PC and plays it through your audio system via WiFi. bought it in 2006. basically way ahead of its time but a pain in the arse to use and got consigned to the random stuff press soon after.

sonofenoch · 27-04-2016 08:53PM

A weather station....could read the difference in temperature inside and out, amazing

Whats the most useless piece of technolagy that you ever bought?

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