The top useless gadget i ever owned was a 3D Glasses,,purchased from bulk supplier in USA n which brand u guess ?? its Gainward.
Basically it comes with a small adapter which has some convereter inside to connect your monitor/vga card thorugh it. then u connect the glasses wire to it & there you go nothing happens !!

After long time of looking for information about this un official product by Gainward i got a thread,It had to be used with nVidia 3D stereo software,at that time the VGA card i had was ATI Radeon 9000 which is not compatible.

So it was a complete waste of time+20$ for glasses+FedEx fee+customs tax.

Oh yes, I must confess I am a gadget lover . I have lived in Japan for quite a long time and my every visit to Akihabara was like passing through heaven… As for the worst gadget I would have several candidates but my winner is: Palm m505 PDA. The specs were perfect but just a few minor glitches made it unusable: it locked up making all data inaccessible and the only way to get it to turn on again was to hard reset it – which deleted all stored information, battery was going dead for no reason almost daily, it won’t hold a charge, was not dependable at all also refusing to sync with PC. In summary it was the most unreliable, frustrating piece of technology that I had owned (later my Palm Tungsten T and T3 were much better ). –With best greetings from Poland

The worst gadget I ever owned was one of the early USB drives (only 128MB), it was PQI’s and it was soooo FAT an chubby that it simply blocked all the other USB ports near it, ohh, and they called it ‘MIB’ – Memory In Black, how lame is that?. But i steal have it, after all it was “my first one”.

The worst I ever owned was a vivitar minicam I once received as a christmas present. It claimed to have a camera that can take 1 megapixel pictures and record video at 30 fps. Well it did record video, but drained so much power that the three triple a batteries it ran on lasted about 10 mins. Then upon checking out the video I had taken, I found there was absolutely no sound. The camera, was even worse. It was hardly 1 megapixel, and it could only save images in 320 x 320 resolution (wtf). Finally the menu was complete trash, it was a simple black and white screen, with two buttons to access all the various functios, making simple things like turning it off, a 2 minute procedure.

Wonder if webcam is considered a gadget but I have got one which turns off the whole computer after every 3 mins using it

The worst gadget I ever owned was an mp3-cd player, one of the first. At the time it seemed like a good idea, because the price of blank CDs compared to flash media justified the purchase. It was a great deal clunkier than any CD player I had ever owned, with a loader that could only be described as “molasses-esque”. It took more than 15 seconds just to begin playing a CD. The sound quality was cacophonous. The player had essentially no skip protection in an age where at least some kind of skip protection was expected. Since I got this primarily for bus rides, this negated any modicum of portability left. Lastly, the navigation was horrible; per-folder browsing wasn’t possible: You could only move backward and forward through tracks, and with hundreds of songs on a single disc, that proves to be very daunting. So, to recap, I got a portable mp3 player that transformed into a mundane, muddy-sounding CD player with no skip protection.

I’d rather have gotten a phonograph.

The PINE PALMP-3 PLAYER must be the worst MP3 player ever made. See it here:http://factorydirect.ca/catalog/product_spec.php?pcode=PI0064 It only has 64MB of memory – barely enough to fit a few podcasts, Random shuffle play plays the EXACT same order every time! Track 3, 17, 5, 2… Sure, that’s fine once – but that’s the order every time! It only recognized half of my MMC card – just pretended the other songs were not there except on random where somehow it would find them! And it’s sloooooooooow. Fast forward only advances at 2x speed -and never gets faster no matter how long you press the button. I could go on and on and will tell you more if I win the contest and will do a product review comparing the two players

The top useless gadget for me has to be the attachable cell phone camera for my old Motorola T722i. I could never find it, and when I did try to use it, the resulting pictures were basically big blobs of bright color. Sort of nice abstract patterns, but not useful enough and too clunky to be used as a camera.

well, the worst gadget I ever possessed was worth 1830€… a fully loaded Asus M6Va. Never .. ever … buy a laptop before it’s released and tested by some people who know what they are doing. The performance was phenomenal but the heat issues as well. After just 30 minutes of gaming the 3Dcard got as hot as 130°C. And the CPU pushing 100°C. Once, it got even 10° hotter then the maximum temperature a Centrino CPU is supposed to work at. And as if that wasn’t worse enough it also made so much frigging noise .. I couldn’t believe it. Even when idling the fans spun so loud it would drive you nuts. I had to use software to make my laptop overheat so I wouldn’t lose my mind.

So .. now I have a MacBook. Made by Asus. I still feel guilty to the one I sold it though He has to use it for class every day, just like I had to for one very painful year. Every time you had to load a program the fans would go banana’s and everyone would be staring at me :s

please send me this beautiful mp3 . I will be very happy
I ‘m from belgium
Thanks you very much

My worst buy was a 1GB MP3 player from Packard Bell.
First of all the beast eats batteries like candy, it can’t remember what song I was on when turned off, no lock possibility to keep it from skipping etc etc. WORST menu system I have ever seen on any MP3 up to date :/ Slow transfers etc, so what ever you do, never buy one :S

By far the worst gadget I’ve ever owned was a pair of 3D Glasses I received for Christmas when I was about 7 years old. They were meant to be used with a Sega Genesis or Super Nintendo and according to the advertisement, provided an IMMERSIVE 3D EXPERIENCE! Being 7 years old and not really have any clue about the technological capabilities of the early 90′s, I imagined being able to play all my favorite 2D side-scrolling games in, basically, a first person perspective! So when Christmas finally came, you can imagine how disappointed I was to find that it was nothing more than two tiny screens that rested in front of my eyes. Then to top it off, my father, upon noticing my displeasure with my new glasses, promptly returned them and bought a FLOWBEE! (ranks in at second place for worst gadget) which would provide my brother and I with crappy haircuts for many years to follow. Flowbee: http://www.flowbee.com

My father comes back from his trip to Japan, I awaited his arrival with ferverous anticipation at what oddities he may have found on his travels there. He arrives back and hands me a box, containing a pair of gloves that connect to a USB port in order to heat up the gloves heat. Thats not even the worst part of the gadget, they were mittens so I couldn’t use them with a keyboard!

Have anyone heard of those fake PSP? Fun for 5 and under but garbage for anyone older. Seriously, if I recall correctly, it had only 5 games and a probably 256 color screen, which faded after like 2 days (I dont even know why I played it for 2 days but heck, I didnt have a real PSP). If the real PSP is big, this one was huge – 4 AA batteries, thats like the original Gameboy. So if you consider something like that a gadget, thats probably the worst I’ve ever received as a gift.

The worst gadget I ever bought has to be a NEC TurboGraphix CD player. The unit was over $500 bucks over 15 years ago. The thing barely had any games and I ended up wiring it up to my car so I could play CDs. I even ended up getting into a minor fender bender changing discs (icy roads and fumbling for a CD).

I guess it’s good to be in Tokyo where one doesn’t have to drive a Dodge Horizon with a video game CD player wired up as a CD stereo!

Cheers!

MDR-EX71 White Sony ear in headset. I used them to workout, after 2 month the cord started to basically deteriorate. I paid 50 US when they came out. So I waited a while for a lower price and ended up getting the same model again but in black. Have em for about 6 months now and are like new! Ahhh who started this WHITE hype about MP3′s again ^^

I buy recently a device to workout passively, here in Brazil named Total Shape (see the Pelé Ad: http://www.polishop.com.br/intershoproot/eCS/Store/pt/ImagesM/prft013242_150.jpg). It’s tedious and not so funny… And the worst: it knocks down the beer!

The worst gadget i ever own was Motorola L6 handphone. Yes it’s very thin etc but the design had no consideration on human ergonomics and so on. The placement of the buttons at the side are such that you always press one of them accidentally. The graphical user interface had no intuitiveness to it at all, i often dunno where the cursor is actually at. Navigating is such a chore as well as u can’t choose to just go back one folder, press “back” will just totally take u out of the whole option. Not to mention the os always hang. Ya they actually have the highest radiation of the handphones around. I normally left them with my watch and other electronics when playing soccer, know wat they all went crazy after a while. These doesn’t normally happen when i’m using other handphones.

The worst gadget I ever own was a Sony minidisk player purchased in 1998 for AUS$1200 I have to say a very advanced concept at the time and very well engineered gadget but despite all its technological and engineering advances it was slaughtered like a pig in no time.. Thanks Sony. PS. Have never owned a Sony product since.. Once bitten, twice shy..!!

Worst gadget experience was probably the “INNERTEK S-CAM” (Chinese?) MP3 player / Camera I got from Akihabara in Tokyo in 2004. It boasted “2.0 Megapixel Camera, MP3 Play Too!”

As if the “Play too” wasnt a big enough warning, the name of the camera was the “S-Cam”, which , if you remove the “-” spells out SCAM ! My girlfriend at the time warning me : “Look, its called the SCAM, maybe you shouldnt buy it.” Sadly I ignored her warning. The camera quality seemed to be more like a 1 megapixel quality, and would only work if you used it at a certain angle. The MP3 player mode wasnt much better, you could hear the little motor inside spinning loudly in the headphones which were even worse than American Airlines headphones. On top of that the battery flap broke off, battery life was 2 hours (!), lens cover broke after 2 weeks.

The worst gadget Ive purchased would have to be the Nexxtech Stereo Headphone Mp3 Player. At the time of its release these insanely huge gaudy stereo headphones were a first of its kind having a self contained mp3 player. I jumped at the idea and wasted about 200 dollars for it. For the first day it worked fine, until the weight started to bother your head and ears. To my dismay it also only was 128mb of memory, and within 10 minutes of battery use from the two double-A’s, the screen no longer had enough power to function (sure the mp3 player worked but you couldn’t see the tracks or options). After only 3 weeks the headphones themselves quite literally fell apart at its seams. They used, get this, superglue, not screws, but run of the mill super/crazy glue! This was probably the worst waste of money and a disappointing purchase I have made to date, other than this laptop, but to this day, I sooner carry around my laptop with earbuds inside then risk purchasing another lame mp3 player.

The worst gadget I ever owned : Ipod Shuffle(1st Gen).For the first year it was working well,playing music & dangling around.Then one day,it decided not to work.Plugged into PC & ITunes didn’t recognize it.I thought it was acting up so I laid it to rest for a week then tried plugging in the PC again.Still can’t recognize & worst,the LED was not blinking.I was so furious that I banged it on the table for a few times,hoping the components will fall into the right place thus fixing itself.I put it aside for around 3 weeks then I decided to try to plug it in the PC for one last time.Guess what? It worked,with a few mishaped bumps around the body.

The worst gadget I ever owned – Creative MUVO TX SE series player… As you know somtimes winter is very frosty in Poland ( I live in Poland )… So I usualy used my MUVO in minus 20 degrees C…. Work well, for day when memory has been broken… I really dont know why! Now i have Sandisk player, winter comes on, so we will see…Mayby Sandisk survive minus 20 degrees

The worst gadget I ever owned was a Sony MD (MiniDisc) Walkman MDZR2. I bought it at a Sony trade fair in the Philippines and I rarely used it for less than 3 months and the laser suddenly conked out and the player stopped functioning. I brought it to the Sony repair center and was charged for replacement of the laser lens but was given a discount after relating to them that I had just recently bought it in their audio fairs 3 months ago. They should have replaced it for free instead of charging me with for a discount. In my experience, the life capacity of laser lens in a Mini Disc player was very limited and barely lasted even a year. Sad to say, this unit is currently not working and the laser lens needs replacement again. I think the flash players are much better off in that they don’t have a laser lens that will easily expire.

I live in the states, and decided a few years back to buy a mini kotatsu for my dorm room. Dust must of accumulated or something during the breaks, because one day, I turned it on and smoke began spume out of the heating device. My friend and I had to hang it outside our window while having a fan blow at max speed just to keep my fire alarm from sounding. Sweet ei?

The most useless gadget I’ve ever bought has got to be the USB Cup Warmer. It doesnt get hot enough to even warm my hands, never mind a cup of coffee.

Worst gadget I ever had was a Scandisk digital audio player. You can use it as a radio, voice recorder and mp3 player. Could never figure out how to switch between those functions!

My worst gadget was Motorola T720. It looked pretty good when it came out, but I had too many problems with it. As soon as my contract was up, I ported my # to Cingular and got myself a Treo650.

The worst gadget I eve had is my IPOD Nano 1 Go, first of all I paid a really expensive price that was allowing me to get a much better MP3 player from any other market maker but now I am stuck with a beautiful (I have to hide it to protect it) usefull (Itunes is the most uneasy tool to use) MP3 (or should I say Apple AAC) player. Also I can resell it due to the very cheap price I can get now As conclusion, I will say that the only good points are the mirror-face where I can check my beautyfull face every morning and the engraved message dedicated to my dear wife Yuka.

Worst gadget ever? I guess I have to go with my Atari Jaguar back in 1995 which I paid a little over $300 for the system and two games. Aside from Alien vs. Predator and perfect port of DOOM, all of the games sucked and I eventually sold the system to get the Sega Genesis. 3D0 is a close second to the Jaguar as well.

The worst gadget I ever 0wned was a Mustek DV5000 mini camcorder. At first glance it was really cute-loking and small, at least at the time when I bought it. Some days after ordering it arrived with a ‘big’ 128MB SD-CARD and I realized that the performance of this little cutie was absolutely poor. However last summer I lost this camera in france which wasn’t that bad because I wouldn’t be able to throw it away or give it away (because no one who I knew would take it voluntarily). (germany)

Wort device… the EMarker! When you were listening to the radio and heard a song that you liked, you would press the only button on the device and it would record something like the time and maybe a clip of the song.. When you got home, plug it in and it would search for the song… It was a bad flop and the company sent out emails to all the owers offering a full refund if you sent it back in.. Kept mine

The worst gadget I ever owned is a Creative Zen Vision 30GB player. The hard disk on this player failed on me 3 times. I had to have it replaced by Creative each time only to have it konk out again within weeks.
I can understand one player failing but all the replacements also failing in a similar fashion was just too much. Absolutely the worst gadget ever.