Tech | May 06, 2009 | 14 comments

Terrible Tech Products

source: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49293700-7,00.htm

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There are some interesting pieces on this list, some of which I had never heard of. A particuarly fabulous example is the 'Barcode Battler', where you can scan any barcode to create fighting numbers on the screen.

This got me to reminiscing about my childhood, and some of the completely useless items that entered it. I am glad to say the Tamagotchi is on this list of terrible tech products. I also remember a life size toddler doll which moved and sang to me (my brother found it much more fascinating).

What pieces of technology do you find utterly pointless?
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14 comments // Terrible Tech Products

  • Skyscraper08
  • Skyscraper08
  • Slick
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      Slick  

    • So you have seen all the stuff in the list that were just wastes of plastic and time but I want to know if there is anything else that you felt was missing from that list.

      What other products do you think should be on the list but aren't?

    • 2 years ago
  • jsaraco
  • Jamesbuckingham
  • Slick
  • saverio
  • brykins
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      brykins  

    • I had an Amstrad eM@iler phone. Never used it for emailing but the phone book on it and the fact that you had a qwerty keyboard for entering/maintaining the phone book, plus the built-in answerphone, handsfree, etc, made it a great small business phone for me. I wonder if I still have it anywhere.....

    • 2 years ago
  • abbym0308
  • FreshPlastic
  • mattbrawn
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      mattbrawn  
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    • I hated tamagotchis, they just seemed so bloody pointless. Leave it unattended for more than 3 seconds and you're guaranteed someone will have given it that lethal injection...

    • 2 years ago
  • St_Alia_10191
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      St_Alia_10191  
    • mattbrawn:

      YES! That's what I immediately thought of. I had an offbrand penguin Nanopet from Japan, and you could make it drink beer and stumble around drunk! I had a dinosaur who was SO HARD to keep alive, and if you managed to get it past day 100, a meteor would fall out of the sky and kill it! WTF sooo pointless.

    • 2 years ago
  • beccatigger
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      beccatigger  

    • My sister used to have a leapfrog page circa '97. To get it started u needed to put the pen on a particular point in the book but it never worked. I spent hours trying to get it to read a story! Think they're significantly better these days though.

      Also, never understood how it worked anyway....

    • 2 years ago
  • HughbertD
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