The most useless piece of technology you have

[DJ_DEnM]

A camera that I bought last year for a photography class. I have nothing to do with it, so I'll probably sell it to one of the freshman taking the course this year.

 

[Bagged Milk]

Floppy disk

I don't think it gets much more useless than that.

oh yeah? well, I have a few ZipDisks

The betamax of data storage

 

[King of Asgaard]

Floppy disk

I don't think it gets much more useless than that.

oh yeah? well, I have a few ZipDisks

The betamax of data storage

Spoiler

I don't have one of these, but it's the most useless machine ever:


It's literally a box that immediately switches itself off once switched on.

D'awww, it's adorable.

OT: My printer, 'cos the fucker barely works at the best of times.

 

[Crises^]

Have to say my watch as my phone/pc took over its job of telling me the time along time ago.

 

[VanQ]

My Nintendo 3DS. I bought it on launch and grabbed Rayman 3D with it. Played through that and didn't touch it again until Ocarina of Time was released and grabbed that since everyone raves about it.

Ocarina of Time pretty much sucks. I guess I don't have the nostalgia needed to enjoy it. Haven't touched the 3DS since.

I really want to trade it in for the cash but I know that Pokemon will eventually completely migrate over to it so I can't. Biggest waste of money I have ever spent.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-accessories/razer-armadillo-ii

this bastard... absolutely no use whatsoever

it seems even nothing costs a lot these days

 

[manic_depressive13]

My phone. I don't want a wanky touch screen gadget that connects to the internet and can tell me what fucking latitude I'm at. All I want to do is make and answer calls, which I now can't do whilst wearing gloves.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Floppy disk

I don't think it gets much more useless than that.

you say that....but i have to use those for work. Cant use anything bigger because the tech i have to work with is too old.

I can't even remember what I used to use them for, they seem almost useless now because they have such limited storage. I have tons lying around but no floppy drive to read them with. Oh god. Horrible memories of idiots laughing at the word floppy and inevitably linking it to hard drive.

 

[Eleuthera]

I own one of these

Explanation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette]

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I have a few...

First of all the Portal of Power for Skylanders...

Yes... it does allow me to play the game... but what else does it do? Nope... nothing... it just sits gathering dust, and makes you wonder why they didn't just give you a particular code... or even make it kinect/eyetoy/webcam compatable, and not just a hulking pointless bit of plastic! :/

Next... these guys:

These are pretty much a product of my hoarding... My old PSP broke, and I got a 3DS instead, I got a Blu-ray player when HDDVD died, and my minidisk player hasn't seen a battery since I got my first iPod... but for some reason I kept all of the disks for all of them... well... I dunno why! :S

Also, interesting to see that 2 of them were unsuccessfull Sony ideas! It's impressive that sony come up with most of the info storage and media devices, but only aroung half of them are accepted into common use... the rest fall to the wayside and are hardly used again!

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

A phone, I have two but never use them....

 

[The_Waspman]

As loathe as I am to admit this - because it means I've slowly become part of the digital age - I have both a cd player and a dvd player that I no longer use. Other than that...

I still have a huge stack of floppy disks from uni, with my essays on them (one on each I think.) I even have a floppy disk drive. Not sure why, I mean, my watch has more storage space than a floppy disk these days.

I also own a magic 8 ball. Thats pretty fucking useless.

 

[EeveeElectro]

My drawing tablet. Sigh.

I bought it to get better at art, and I've barely used it.

Someone more deserving could use it but i dont know.

Sell it? If you're barely using it, I'm sure you won't miss it if you sell it and you'll make a quick bit of money.
I was looking for one a while ago but gave up on it because the lowest is £40 and I'm not sure I want to spend that much money on it in case I barely use it.

OT: I suppose the only think I can think of is I got some electronic air freshener, battery powered because it had a fan. I thought it was plug in like my old one, but it needed batteries.

Well it was really loud, VVVRRRROOOOOMMMM, couldn't even smell it and it stopped working after an hour. Not buying more batteries for it though.
I'm hesitant to waste money on stuff so I don't really have much.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

snip

you say that....but i have to use those for work. Cant use anything bigger because the tech i have to work with is too old.

snip

oh yeah? well, I have a few ZipDisks

The betamax of data storage

I feel so so sorry for both of you.

 

[Ytomyth]

A portable mini-television.

I have a normal tv (which does not require reading glasses) and you still have to power it. <- USELESS.

 

[madster11]

Tie between my surprisingly shit HDD video camera (480p w/ bad mic) and a little motorola rokr thing that plays music through speakers via bluetooth. Actual unit works well - good sound quality and nice and loud, but i've used it a total of 1 time. If i want to listen to music quietly i just use my xperia, if i want to listen to music with friends/party/beach i have a bunch of other stereos.

I also have a ton of devices my xperia took over from - PSP, GBA, SNES, iPod, etc.