what is the most pointless inovation evar?

[The King And His Fool]

DVD rewinder. Yeah, I probably don't have to explain this one.

Thank god! Now I can finally re-watch all my DVDs!

 

[soapyshooter]

The internets! Giving every idiot an opinion since 1991

 

[BubbaJeff]

The Pen!

It's a pencil that you can't erase, runs out and leaks everywhere, it also can't work in space! Why do we use it?

The pen does work in space, Stephen Fry told me so.

The mechanism relies on gravity. Try writing with almost any pen upside down, and after the ink has flowed away from the nib, which may take a few minutes, it will stop writing.

Or you could make a vacuum based pen, where dispensing ink from the tip will leave a vacuum behind it sucking ink towards the front from the back of the pen. I call it space pen, or a spen for short. I'm so smart.

Wasn't the pen invented before the pencil anyway, and hence wouldn't be innovation? Maybe I heard wrong, but it makes sense to me that people used something to stain inks onto paper before they dicked about putting bits of graphite into a stick.

 

[Rickyvantof]

iPad.

Fucking stupid.

 

[primitivescrewhead]

The Ipad, I have an Iphone, it does exactly what an Ipad can do, completely pointless

 

[vorlors]

the reply all button .

 

[ReSpawn]

The Pen!

It's a pencil that you can't erase, runs out and leaks everywhere, it also can't work in space! Why do we use it?

The pen does work in space, Stephen Fry told me so.

Yea after thousands of dollars were spent on making one that works in space. Normal pens don't because the lack of gravity affects the ink inside the pen. All the while the Russians used pencils

Pretty sure that's one o'them urban myths.

Pencils leave shavings when writing, and in a low gravity situation, get everywhere.

 

[.Warheart]

This.

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMGJB410Ccs&NR=1

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Videogames - are pretty pointless

 

[DarkGargoyle]

the reply all button .

That's for buisiness users and coordinating projects. I've only just started needing to use it, and it's actually handy.

OT: the majority of the world's iPhone apps.

 

[tgcPheonix]

DVD-Rewinder

http://www.dvguru.com/2006/10/03/the-dvd-rewinder/

that's right it rewinds DvDs....

 

[Arachon]

the helicopter ejector seat

The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamov_Ka-50] has an ejection seat, so it's not as stupid as you may think. Especially since the Ka-50 is one of the coolest choppers out there.

 

[elvor0]

"Pay to play" games... (seriously, why pay money for the game, and then pay again to actually play it :S - it's not like you have a choice or something)

Something tells me you don't understand the cost of running the servers and the amount of content developed for games like World of Warcraft, the money doesnt appear out of thin air, selling copies of the game without a subscription fee would never upkeep WoW, and it would end up relying on micro transactions and have no or very few updates.

 

[Je Hones]

I'm surprised nobody has said Kamikaze pilot helmets.

I do believe that is a myth, though.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

"Pay to play" games... (seriously, why pay money for the game, and then pay again to actually play it :S - it's not like you have a choice or something)

Something tells me you don't understand the cost of running the servers and the amount of content developed for games like World of Warcraft, the money doesnt appear out of thin air, selling copies of the game without a subscription fee would never upkeep WoW, and it would end up relying on micro transactions and have no or very few updates.

Guild Wars is my most favorite MMO of all time, and it seems to do fine without monthly fees

- as a matter of fact, it is so successful that a sequel is coming, and that doesn't have monthly fees either

 

[Darren20]

NASA spending thousands on a pen that would work in space.
But realising that a bic pen already works in space.

 

[jultub]

"Pay to play" games... (seriously, why pay money for the game, and then pay again to actually play it :S - it's not like you have a choice or something)

Something tells me you don't understand the cost of running the servers and the amount of content developed for games like World of Warcraft, the money doesnt appear out of thin air, selling copies of the game without a subscription fee would never upkeep WoW, and it would end up relying on micro transactions and have no or very few updates.

And then there would be no WoW... I don't really see the problem with removing any and all pay to play features

On topic: Paying for porn online.

 

[Captain Blackout]

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