Stupidest Computer Periphial or accessory ever invented?

[ApacheXMD]

hehe
ass-blaster.


-patchy

 

[The Wildcard]

What about those gaming vests with the subwoofer attached to the chest vest, hahahha.

 

[SUOrangeman]

No mention of iMac? Oh yeah, it's a forbidden word around here.

-SUO, anti-Mac committee

 

[DarkKnight113]

I mentioned iMac stuff. You know, the crappy mouse and keyboard. What I don't understand is why they include that crap even with their G4s. Oh yeah, it's Apple...

 

[FatAlbo]

Those old Compaq keyboards with speakers built into them.

 

[DaveJ]

What about stupid software? My vote for the all-time stupidest piece of software has to be Microsoft Bob. What the hell were they thinking?

 

[spec411]

YESS THE WORST KEYBOARDS AND MICE ON THE NEW APPLES?? CMON THIS IS TECH???

 

[The Wildcard]

Which reminds me of another stupid invention, those keyboards with all those shortcut buttons on the top. You know, like those keyboards for the compaq comuters and stuff. Like you press a button and it tells your computer to bring to you a website. Sounds cool, but i don't think you can customize them. They all bring you to Compaq pages.

 

[WombatWoman]

I just abhor the ergonomic keyboards. I know people who swear by these, but I just swear at 'em.

 

[PCAddict]

I agree with The_Wildcard. Montors with speakers built into the case are at the top of my list. Compaq was really big on that concept for a while back when I had the unfortunate experience of having to sell them. Many of their systems didn't ship with speakers so you had to either buy their monitor, or fork over extra cash for speakers. I saw alot of those speakers go bad, which meant you had to RMA the monitor, which meant having a pissed off customer who couldn't use their system.

The only thing worse were the IBM CrAptiva S-series systems which came in black and had the proprietary setup where the floppy drive and CD-ROM were part of the monitor base assembly and connected to the tower via a fat cable.

 

[Raincity]

Microsoft Bob

Rain

 

[BA]

Wildcard, a friend of mine had a compaq with all the keyboard buttons. Got a new hard drive and had to re-install windoze. Couldn't ever find the driver for the buttons, and it'd just continually turn the volume all the way down.

 

[catseye]

Follow these clues to what is by far (we're talking light years here, billions and billions of them) the most incredibly idiotic computer peripheral ever concieved, ever. Period. Be warned, though, not for those easily offended.

Okay, it is a commercial site on the world wide web.

freaks
understands this
foolishness
more than
everyone here.

 

[ApacheXMD]

-patchy

 

[BiggieN]

hmmmm....nice clues. me being a college student and all, it took me 2 hours to figure it out...NOT. that might be a dumb thing but it will revolutionized aol chatting...now it'll be age/sex/ip address so they can "hook up" with you....hahah. that's sick!

 

[AndyHui]

I don't like CDROM caddies.....hassle...

 

[bigjon]

Ribbon cables - those things suck. You can never bend them the way you want to and they get in the way. And who the heck decided to line up the pins just right so it would fit either way?!

As if that weren't bad enough, a lot of vendors came along and decided to plug some of the holes in the ribbon cable connectors so that you couldn't use the cable on any other system :|

 

[dennilfloss]

The iBrator or this hot seat.

http://www.compucheap.com/fungraph/inax.jpg

BTW, real men use trackballs.

Awful (Hole)

 

[Harvey]

I vote for the WOM (Write Only Memory). You can write to it an infinte number of times, but you can't read it.

Second on my list is the RAF (Random Access Forgetory).

 

[WombatWoman]

Harvey, even worse is the batch file related to Write Only Memory: the WOM.BAT

 

[sandorski]

Hehehe, the worst thing? How about them mouse looking mice covers. The next stupidest peripheral invented would be the mice under them covers! Get a Trackball baby!!!!

 

[Makanani]

I was watching CNBC at work a few months ago when they interviewed this shmuck who really thought his product of a mouse that can "feel" things would be a huge hit. He said that people would want to feel what an item feels like before they buy something online. I was laughing my damn head off. Then i imagined buying a great looking woman online then "hmmmmmmmm" hahahaha

 

[Windogg]

Hey Honey!!! Wanna feel this nice waffle iron?

 

[catseye]

Well, you know Biggie, don't want to corrupt America's youth (Paulson).

 

[randomlinh]

we're judging america's youth by paulson. Does anyone else see a problem w/ that?

My say in this would have to be those borders for your monitor.