Amazingly, these waves of
Crapgadgets tend to showcase some sort of mini-trend. Oftentimes it's a certain fondness for
USB overkill, while other times it just feels like gaudy is the new black. This go 'round, however, we're looking at a veritable cornucopia of lameness. Eager to drop a Jackson to enjoy one of the most non-ergonomic wooden mice to ever see the light of day? Now you can. There's also the common issue of not being able to see text in a book while in pure darkness, but rather than just flipping a light switch or changing time zones to locate the sun, there's a wearable necklace to do the trick. Believe it or not, the list just keeps on getting better, with a machine gun-styled USB drive, heart-shaped telephone and a USB scent flower rounding things out. Dive into dumpster below if you dare, and drop your vote for the worst of the worst in the poll below.
Read - USB bamboo mouse
Read - Wearable hands-free light
Read - Machine gun USB drive
Read - USB guitar speaker
Read - Heart-shaped telephone
Read - USB scent flower
Read - Steering wheel Bluetooth mount
Crapgadget: go on, pick your (least) favorite| USB bamboo mouse | 516 (8.2%) |
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| Wearable hands-free light | 496 (7.9%) |
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| Machine gun USB drive | 806 (12.8%) |
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| USB guitar speaker | 860 (13.7%) |
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| Heart-shaped telephone | 1009 (16.0%) |
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| USB scent flower | 1512 (24.0%) |
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| Steering wheel Bluetooth mount | 1088 (17.3%) |
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posted January 24th 2010 12:48PM
@maveric101
because spending 3 minutes in Paint is too hard for them? here, i did it for them:
http://i50.tinypic.com/30kx1g3.png
i don't really care to read the product descriptions, i just want a picture of them. 1 engadget editor spending maybe 5 minutes to make and upload an image in order to save thousands and thousands of readers 1 minute apiece seems worth it to me.
USB condom. If I'm online, I don't need it, if I need it, I'm not online.
I say Steering wheel Bluetooth mount.
Ok the bamboo mouse isn't that bad its just badly ugly. The light is a very useful gadget if your not laying on your stomach to read, it also can be used for lots of other things but my favorite is; putting it around children's necks when outside at night(although embarrasing its safe). The uzi has 3 uses: USB drive, paper weight, and if low on cash you could rob a liquor store. The guitar? Why? The only person that would want this is is kid that has everything...including the USB Flower! And finally...the winner....what its a tie.....how could this be? The heart shaped phone and the steering wheel mount is this years leading cause of deaths...if you don't kill yourself driving you can use the phone cord to hang from closet for buying any of these products(minus the light).
You guys need to try harder. Just go to dealextreme and I am sure you can find worse.
I had to vote for the Steering Wheel thingamajig, but I am disappointed that the machine gun USB is so underrated. Imagine going through the airport security. A machine gun that works off the USB, huh? Beats the scent flower hands up.
I cant think of an interesting application for a two headed flexible dildo light like that :) Lets just hope it is nice and water tight.
Sorry, but i do not consider that wearable hands-free light a crapgadget.
The flexible light a crapgadget? Really!? I think that is a great idea not just for reading, but for detail work or fixing things that require a hands free light. I think the $15 list price is great for the light since it has spot and wide angle leds on each leg and you can use a combination of 1 to 4 of them. Not just draped on the shoulders or wrapped around the wrist, this could be wrapped around the head or a hat for a headlight.
Being one who collects flashlights and uses them almost daily, I had to have one so went looking. They are sold out almost everywhere although you can currently get ones in pink for $20 on amazon or $16 on ebay, plus shipping.
Wow, they are all so terrible. I don't know which one to pick...
I actually thought the wooden mouse wasn't that terrible in comparison to the others... so yeah, that one is probably the least terrible if one gets to choose one of those.
And am I the only one who thought the wearable hands-free light looked a bit like those collars from Fallout 3 that blow your head up if you run away from slavers...? Scary.
There is a guy with a ladder in that picture.
This is the point at which the given device exists within an entirely separate reality that the typical Engadget columnist has no way to relate to.
@jedi
The flexible light is shown attached to a ladder on their site, to light the work you are doing, which isn't so daft if you are fixing a lightsocket and the power is off actually.
The light actually looks useful. I'd probably wrap it around my forearm and not my neck though. The only thing that goes around my neck is my old dog tag chain holding my wedding ring.
That USB guitar speaker gets my vote. It's so ugly that it wouldn't even make our local dollar store - ON SALE. Seriously, that is pure excrement. I'm a musician too and I wouldn't be caught dead with anything like that in public. I'd even laugh at MYSELF every day if that actually ended up in my possession somehow.
@Chaosdivine
Then again, maybe I could break it open,harvest anything useful and somehow stick all the bits into the USB powered sent flower...remote controlled scent flower...sweet!
How is the bendable light a crapgadget?
a b ambo mouse is not bad. Plastic mice are horrible for the environment. they cant be recycled escpecially here in ny and just sit there in a landfill atleast the shell of the bambo mouse can be recycled.
where's the open office mouse ? well i guess it was cool after all....
That particular hands-free light might be lame but don't underestimate the usefulness of a hands-free light. I find I'm constantly using my headlamp: biking at dusk, working in the crawlspace, a quick check of something under the truck when I don't feel like dragging out the dropcord light...
It's probably the most-used flashlight in my possession...
@Smart People Play Tuba I see your logic. But of all those on the list, the USB scent flower is the only one blocked by my job's web filters, so I gotta go with it.
All of them were completely craptastic, except for the light which is only mildly crappy.
That is not just any "machine gun". It is a Micro Uzi, Engadget.
@Agent007
The site calls it just machine gun, and yeah it looks like an UZI, but perhaps there are subtle differences? Or maybe they are afraid the israeli sue them
So I voted for the Heart phone. Reminds me of the epilepsy inducing, blinking phone that everyone purchased for their dorm rooms in the early 90s. Equally as tacky. However, I do wonder how many of us actually purchase some of these craptastic gadgets that are featured here?
I feel like someone is looking to those hands free lights for their next ravetastic trip to Ibiza.