Competition: Worst Gadget ever
November 25, 2005 by budda
Filed under Bluetooth, Competitions, Consoles and Video Gaming, Gadgets, Handhelds, Internet, Mobile Phones, Portable Audio, Wi-Fi, Wireless
What is the worst Gadget you have come across? Let us know via the comments form below and you will be entered into a competition to win a Nokia N-Gage QD Silver Edition together with a bunch of games.
How do I enter?
- Use the comment box below this post to leave your answer. Please include a valid email address for us to contact you on! This is not displayed on the website, so there is no feat of spam junk emails.
- List the worst Gadget you’ve ever seen with a brief description and a link if possible. If you’ve owned the item it would be great to seen a short review of it! Tell us why it really is the lamest thing you have ever seen.
- We’ll award the most entertaining item with a great shiny new Nokia N-Gage QD Silver Edition along with a number of games to get you going.
- The winner will be announced on the 16th of December 2005 (in enough time to get the prize through before Christmas) so be sure to get your entry in before this date.
Worst Gadget?
This can literally be anything from the rubbish Marks & Spencer ‘mens gifts’ to the downright useless USB tat you see popping up on the ‘net..
The Prize
It’s more than just a portable games device, you get a fully functioning Nokia mobile thrown in, plus all the features of modern mobiles: digital media (mp3) player,email client and bluetooth connectivity.
Read more about the spec of the N-Gage QD Silver.
If you fancy a free phone upgrade this Christmas, and something to occupy yourself whilst visiting the relatives over the holiday time, get thinking and enter our competition!
More N-GAGE Xmas shenanigans @ http://www.n-gage.com/xmas
We reserve the right not to publish some competition entries due to their content. All comments are moderated.
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The worst gadget I’ve ever seen is definitely the ToeTapper 2340TZ from Peditron! It’s a huge(twice as big as other PDAs) PDA that you strap to your ankle and you type on the device using your toes! It has a backlit 640 x 180 widescreen display with inverted buttons. It’s so stupid that when I first saw it, I thought it had to be a joke! But it’s for real! Here is the link to the site where I saw it:
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/351/C5182/
This device is the lamest thing I’ve ever seen because who in the world would want a PDA strapped to their ankle? It looks so dumb and it’s just ridiculous! I can’t imagine someone actually tapping on a big PDA with their toes! It’s beyond stupid!!!!
http://www.dansdata.com/usbthings.htm
USB network adapters.
Competition: Worst Gadget ever
I came across these things called Indicatears while xmas shopping on the web.There little indicator lights that you clip over your ears so as to signal to other pedestrians which way your turning.
What next the asse mounted brake light.
http://www.pointlessbutcool.com/gadgets/indicatears
My vote would go to the Nintendo Virtual Boy.
Perhaps its most obvious problem is that despite being pitched as the next big thing in mobile gaming (circa 1995), it wasn’t really very mobile. The device was bulky and with its goggles, stand, controller, and cables, it couldn’t easily be carried around and played on the go. Worse still, fragile internal parts could break if the device was used under heavy motion, such as being in a car.
The system’s ergonomics were terrible. The base couldn’t be adjusted, so many players would have to hunch over to use it. Then there was the possibility of eyestrain and eye damage: according to Nintendo, the Virtual Boy shouldn’t be used for more than 30 minutes at a time, and kids under 7 shouldn’t use it at all!
Of course, problems with the device don’t stop there. There’s the single-colour display, the silly name, the lackluster games with little 3rd-party support, and amazingly, no multiplayer support whatsoever!
It was a system hardly anyone could love. And even if they did, they really ought to keep it within 30-minute intervals.
the worst gadget ever is usb fan
its stupid, and pointless and s not worth it. wastes a usb slot and gives air less than my arse can while farting.
http://www.directusbstore.co.uk/cnb/shop/directusbstore?productID=190&op=catalogue-product_info-null&prodCategoryID=28
totally pathetic
the USB disco ball. why you ask? I dont know. it isnt even the cool mirror type that could possible hang from inside your case, its more of a seizure-enducing flashing light kind of disco ball.
http://www.xoxide.com/multi-color-disco-ball-usb.html
http://www.babeland.com/page/TIB/PROD/DS215480
A usb vibrator. Need I say more?
How about an electric nail clipper, after all those old fashioned hand powered ones never did the job well… http://sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productview/sku=SI743GPH/hppos=8
The worst gadget ever has to be the USB Fairy lights, that have had a lot of hype this season. One question, why have lights that work only when your computer is turned on? – and have to be near your computer because of the ridiculously short length of wire? Come on, who wastes their money on this stuff?
The worst gadget must be an electric can opener. It’s so useless. Why do you need it? You can open cans with a little can opener..
solar powered lamps!!!
http://linuo.en.alibaba.com/product/0/50388594/Solar_Powered_Lamps.html
Worst gadget ever…. Gizmondo. It’s awful, i mean the gaming is not upto date, you can get those graphics on an n-gage, the price is way too much… I would rather get a psp!
The USB Cup Warmer, why was it invented?
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000760025008/
The worst gadget i have ever seen is the gameboy…….I have to sit near a light sourcec and play and when i do this i will not be able to see the game running on the screen
usb aquarium…
http://usb.brando.com.hk/usbminiaquariumblue.php
http://www.thegadgetblog.com/2005/06/28/casio-gw-400j-vibrating-watch/
Casio GW-400J Vibrating Watch
if I wanted a massage, I will get a OSIM massage chair and not just a massage on my arms
The “intelligent chip” – Improve the sound of music from your CD’s by setting this on top of the CD player – what?
A water powered clock. you can also keep flowers in it
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/757e/
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At GadgetSpy.co.uk you have the opportunity to win a Nokia N-Gage QD Silver Edition and some games to go along with it. What do you have to do? Just comment on this entry about the worst gadget you know….
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/4833/
Full body immersion Virtual reality at last.
Marvellous thing for any mobile user – http://www.gadgetspy.co.uk/2005/12/07/somebody-answer-the-phone
a usb body massager, i really cant see this selling very much. imagine forgetting u had it on and walking away from the computer only to have the computer pulled over because u didnt unplug it
http://usb.brando.com.hk/usbmassageball.php
This is the worst gadget i have seen in my life
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/77aa/
Last Christmas I asked my son to buy me an adaptor so I could listen to my mp3 player in the car. It was in the form of a cassette with a short cable coming from it. The cable wasn’t long enough so the mp3 player had to dangle and the stupid thing didn’t work anyway! Plus I had to dismantle the radio/cassette player to get it back out again:-(
Bluetooth earpieces – they get lost in your hair, you look like you’re talking to yourself (and you frequently are) and they blip with a blue light to show you’re permanently plugged in – how robotic is that?
So, who won? It’s the 16th and I want to see if I’m going to get a brand new N-Gage for Christmas.
The worst gadget to me is the USB warmer, it can warm things up to 70 F which is lower that normal ambience temperature here in Florida (80 F), if you plan to get this thing to “warm” something, maybe in florida it could “cool” it
http://www.gigi-gia.com.tw/mini-usb-heater.htm
What else when N-Gage and N-Gage QD is in the Top??
What could be worse than a gadget made just to open the heat sealed blister packs that everything comes in now and is itself sold in that type of packing. What do I use to get the tool out of it’s package?
The winner of this competition is Liam….:
“I came across these things called Indicatears while xmas shopping on the web.There little indicator lights that you clip over your ears so as to signal to other pedestrians which way your turning. What next the asse mounted brake light.” http://www.pointlessbutcool.com/gadgets/indicatears
This Gadget is absolute pants – plus it is *real* and for sale – and it’s sort of Christmassy too with the lit up ears
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Interesting article.