Top Ten Dumbest Gadgets O’ The Week — 12/12/08
But first, here are some cool gadgets you can buy for me:
- Sheep Lawnmower — if I had a yard, that is
- Funky Fireplaces — from the French
- Monolith Table — this may not be comfortable, but it looks cool
Here are my choices for the dumbest gadgets of the week:
- Paper Airplane Launcher — are we really that lazy?
- Carbon Fiber Door — for $15,000 I would expect more
- Pet Collar Camera — this would be cooler if it was video and if it had a built-in webserver
- Crashing Calculator — words fail me
- iPhone Coffee Table — lame
- Cuckoo Speakers — seems highly dangerous
- Bear USB Hand Warmers — I just do not get it
- Force Feedback Helmet — “feel the impact of getting shot in the head”
- LED Watch — I still do not want to learn another way to tell time
- Casio Multi-Colored Calculator Watches — I appreciate the legacy geekiness, but they are just ugly
Here are a few Christmas gadgets that are dumb:
- Christmas Tree Projector — projects a tree on your wall
- Christmas Tree Poster — really?
- Cardboard Christmas Tree — a green (?) alternative
- Beer Bottle Christmas Tree — fragile
- USB Christmas Decorations — tack-o-rama
Force Feedback Helmet: The feeling of getting shot in the head… minus the whole death thing! Just what I’ve always wanted…?
Cardboard Christmas Tree – This inventor must not have had a very happy childhood…
I submit that there has never been and never will be a “good Christmas gadget”. We all know that deep down you want an iPhone table.