You decide '08: The best of Crapgadget at CES
By Paul Miller 
posted Jan 13th 2008 6:12AM
posted Jan 13th 2008 6:12AM
The nominees
Round 1: the Mini Phone
Round 2: the MP5 player
Round 3: Boxing Champ
Round 4: Fugliest display evar
Round 5: tweety! digital camera
Round 6: The Apple Pie
Round 7: 64MB Beer MP3 player
Round 8: Firetruck with 1.5-inch digital photo frame
Round 9: spy recorder for little girls
Round 10: PC Desktop Duo
Round 11: Janky-ass MP4 watch
Round 12: iPod docking pink plastic purse
Round 13: e-paper display actually paper
Round 14: Hello Kitty with human debris
Round 15: Shredmaster Jr.
Round 16: Music Player Sunglasses
Round 17: the non-existent digital photo frame
Round 18 finale: Tole Pure really is a crapgadget
I couldn't remember any, first?
I have to go with the spy cam aim for girl hopefully the thing does video. i could always place in a female co-workers hotel room.
A hidden camera in the girls room? God, you are SO SAD, and 5 years old.
Why not try ACTUALLY meeting a girl, getting a girlfriend, and having sex. That way you can see a REAL naked girl in front of you, instead of ones on TV.
Yay! First!
I hate you and your kind.
Go E-paper display actually paper!
Whats this "First" thing about?
I usually hate people like that too, but then i saw the magic words: "0 Comments" and my life was transformed. I'm deeply sorry.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's the 64MB Beer MP3 player.
- Who buys any kind of digital music player under a gig anymore?
- It's not ripping anything off directly, like 6, 15, or 16. That thing's crap all on its own.
- And it's not just generic junk like the keyboard and mouse combo... the item /itself/ was a bad idea.
Why is the Janky-ass MP4 watch on this list? I would proudly wear this fine piece of nerd jewelry.
It's not really a gadget but can I vote for the Engadget/Blogsmith blog commenting system since it's total crap?
Failing that the MP4 watch as that thing was a brick.
(5th attempt at replying, one comment didn't reply, the rest didn't reply either but I noticed before I hit add)
If you think this is crap head over to gizmodo, you can't even reply to people!
EDIT: But apparently you have to strangle your computer to get it to reply to anyone here anyway, I think I actually prefer gizmodo's system now. Much less frustration.
Dude thank god CES is over, its really hard to just pick one as the best Crapgadget almost everything that was shown was mostly Junk, you Guys should just skip it next year, and leave CES for the New Bs, am pretty sure no one is goin to miss it
And for the next pile of crap - Macworld!
Gotta be the paper paper display...
I can barely see the charts, more contrast please!
As for the vote, yeah the photo frame (or the lack of it), as in "what photo frame?"
Nevermind the charts. WHY are the links, and the poll choices in REVERSE ORDER from each other???
#18 was the only one that knew where to go :]
The others were misled :]
and then when you click VOTE
another dimension of PAIN!
I love being a pessimist as much as the next nerd but ...
Couldn't we vote for the best gadget ... just a thought.
I'd go for the non-existant frame.
At least they can get some attention literally without "anything".
Pink purse
You simply can't go wrong with a slogan like "I love clean butt".
of course i also did like the beer mp3 player to bad it does not with a bottle opener.
So hard too choose. Engadget, we're only human!
All right. The Hello kitty with human debris looks fab.
Change my mind, the e-paper made of real paper is way funny. Makes Gizmodogate look like a childish prank (being sarcastic here).
You think this is crap head on over to gizmodo you can't even reply to people!!
Engadget should take the cake for the worst of CES. I was really disappointed to keep coming back for updates only to find a running list of admittedly crappy gadgets.
I think the entire staff was all too ready to head off to Macworld to do a half decent job. And this is typed with an iPR
iPT, even
737 CES posts and all you saw was crapgadget? really? i vote you "worst eyes"...
I agree, crap gadget is insulting and demeaning. Let's talk about the good stuff and let the less original guys improve their work.
Where's the HD-DVD option?
If Apple makes their iMacs pink, would you still buy them?
WHy isn't the rolly or polly or whatever the piece of crap from SONY not in the list????/ That is the worst gadget EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!