The best one is Sony Mylo! Thanks’

ok…so the worst gadget award goes to Nokia N93 cell phone. Not only it looks fugly but weighs too much for a phone. And by the way, I am from India.

The worst gadget ever for me is the Kensington FlyFan. I bought it to cool down my Zalman Reserator on hot summer days. But the noise it made. My god! I looks good, feels good but It’s my worst geek product ever!

Worst gadget ever? Dell Optiplex GX260…..if the CPU fan wasn’t dying, then the mobo capacitors were exploding. If the mobo caps weren’t exploding, then the HD had irrecoverable sectors on it and wouldn’t boot. If the HD wouldn’t boot, then the oh-so-timely power outage while I was updating the BIOS (yes, these events do occur in reality) renders it a brick and has to be sent to Dell.Yeah, worst PC ever!

I bought one of those police car detectors to put in my car. Not to get away with speeding but so I know when to be extra careful when driving because here in Japan police have a monthly quota of fines they must give out. So come end of the month the police are out on alert to fill their quotas. Instead the thing goes off every ten seconds as it gets set off by everything, most notably convenient stores which are everywhere!! Damn thing cost over 40,000 yen.

I’ve had allot of bad gadgets, i buy gadgets quite often, and i’ve had allot of completely useless and bad gadgets.
I think the worest gadget i’ve had was the USB coffee warmer, the idea was verry nice, but my coffee didnt stay warm at all, it barely worked, and after 3 days it broke and it broke my USB pci card aswell, i was glad it didnt destroy my complete pc, but that definitely was the worest and most useless gadget i’ve owned.
But the zalman 5.1 headphones were pretty useless aswell, used a couple of times, now its eating dust and i’m using my trusty old Stanton
greets from the Netherlands!

The worst gadget that I had was a Sony Mini Disk Walkman. The reason

I ditched my cassete walkman and CD walkman for the Mini Disk.. But what do I get a fancy player on which I had to work hard to get songs into. I needed a computer and patience to convert mp3 to attrac.
I would easily record my cassetes from my CDs or i could use my CDs without the hassle of login into my computer. My music system as enough.

The worst gadget I had ever had was a fake iPod. I had purchased it from an electronics market and this guy told me that it was 4GB. The box looked exactly like the real one. But obviously it wasn’t He offered it for $50 which made me think it was a good deal. I got home opened it and I knew it was not an iPod, inside the box was a USB fan. I cursed myself and connected it to my computer. I connected it and it worked fine (It was summer so a fan seemed good enough for now). While I was cooling off myslef from anger with the fan, my computer shut off. Why? The Black and red cables were touching eachother where the soldering joints were. As you know, positive and negative cables touching eachother will kill the power source. I don’t know if this was a story of bad luck or bad gadgets or a mixture of both.

Worst gadget I ever bought was a personal cooling unit from Sharper Image. It’s a device you fill with cold water and wrap around your neck. Fans inside are supposed to blow cold mist against your neck cooling you down in the heat. Unfortunately, it would leave a wet ring around my neck and the device sounded like I was getting ready for take off.

The worst gadget I ever owned was and still has to be the philips P44417P 3in1 keychain Mini Digital Camera. Why? because of a few simple flaws. It does everything it says it can do, which is good (webcam, digital camera, records video), but the problem with it was that i couldn’t see how the pictures or the videos turned out until I hooked it up to the computer and even from there I had to use the software that came with the camera, which was not exactly user friendly. I also didn’t know how many pictures I had left until I would turn the camera around to see the number displayed. one issue with the webcam was that it was way too light so it wouldn’t stand straight when hooked up with the USB wire and there was no stand even for additional purchase available. I had to use the manual to understand what the numbers meant because there were several displays and without out I would be utterly lost.

The worst gadget is a Philips DCC tape player. Slow, noisy and fragile (it broken after 4 months). Infact DCC disappear very fast…

the worst gadget was a plastic webcam that came along with with some in plastic wrapped trash magazine my mother bought. it needed batteries to take pics into its memory(?) tho it didnt work without the usb cable connected to computer. the silvery stick lived for about a week in its strange holder and then died for good. buy a trashbin and get free litter…

I’m from usa. Worst gadget I had? This flashlight I bought for the car. Every time I plugged it into the car’s aux power outlet, it would kill the car. Some how it kept blowing a fuse. That was the worst $10 I spent. Yeah, you get what you pay for.

Please don’t laugh; I was young and inexperienced. A few years back I bought a Franklin eBookMan. It had a large screen, handwriting recognition and, from my limited research, a thriving development community online. So I bought this thing and…, it was just bad. First thing you had to do out-of-the-box was download the OS to the eBookMan. The OS turned out to be utter trash. Exact details now escape me but I remember it being slow and badly designed. The file browser, for example, didn’t support folders so you had to scroll through hundreds of files if you wanted to delete something. The sync software for Windows was kind of buggy too. Battery life amounted to a little over two hours. And it only used alkaline batteries. I shrugged all that off and decided to try out the SDK. At least it compiled (after a lot of work on my part). Nothing else worked though. After that experience, I vowed never to buy anything electronic from Franklin again.

– Jacinto, from USA

My super awesome Dell Latitude should fit this category quite will, aspecialy when it decided to overheat and explode. Yey! Goodbye my table……

I worst in my life is, KOSS KS5192 DVD Home theater system. When the Tech support asked me to do the Firmware upgrade for a 2 second delay in Audio problem, the whole system gone dead. The worst part is, after this insident, there is no more Koss-av.com web site nor the customer support. This is my first and last home theater system. I cant afford to buy one more. By the way I live in India.

The worst gadget I’ve probably ever had was a Siemens M55 cell phone. I thought I was in for a treat when I read the spec sheet at the time — color display, polyphonic ringtones, dynamic “event lights” — it sounded like it had it all. Too bad it was absolute garbage. The screen was ridiculously low resolution, the menus lagged like there was tomorrow, the voice quality was deplorable. I guess you get what you pay for (it cost me $25).

The worst gadget I have and I still own it is the Palm m125. I has a b/w screen, 8MB of memory. No, it’s not those specs that made it the worst geek product I have owned but it’s the battery!!!! everytime I changed the battery everything resets to zero!!! So yes I still own it, but don’t get the idea it’s still working. Of course it’s dead, after I dissected it and made all sorts of hack for a rechargeable circuit, it eventually gave up on me. Good thing because I will never miss it. Although I can’t complain because my GF (now my fiancee) gave it to me as a gift.

I have one gigabeat P5 that I call it, gigaworst. I’m trying to do it syncronize with my pc for 8 months, but, at the moment, I don’t obtain success. Sorry my english.

My worst idea: a gift bought for myself: An electrical peeler for vegetebales… It was clearly indicated on the box => very useful! And I was sure it was… I proudly show it to my wife, and run a demo! Very impressive:my first vegetable (a carrot) was peeled very quickly, and my kitchen painted in orange at the same time. Damned! This was a gadget from the family where you need to be clever for using it. So I discovered a forgetten transparent part in the box needed to prevent painting the room. Next demo (The kitchen was still in orange, just in case) was better, the north wall was not reached, but the windows not transparent anymore. Ok! you need to read the doc before using it… No problem, I’m able to do this. Clearly indicated on the 3rd page: ‘Use a salad bowl filled with water and peel the vegetables over it.’.Easy: Next demo leading to my conclusion: Very useful doc to help people to clean the kitchen with lot of water… Now I’m waiting the USB version to have another try.

NOKIA N-GAGE
why?
did you ever sidetalked?

Dlink DI-624 wireless router. It was good for a few weeks when I purchased it. After that, the router keeps rebooting itself like crazy (5-10 mins/time), no matter how you refresh the firmware or change the setting. It must be the worst defective product that Dlink has ever had. !

Worst ever? A generic laptop cooler when after placing my IBM T43 on it, it seemed to apply to much pressure on one of the fans that it didn’t spin, and thus well was pretty useless as a cooler.

THe worst gadget in my opinion is the Motorola Razr. Not much funtionality, camera with low mega pixels, average software, so so connection. The design is definitely excellent, but it is way too over hyped. Almost everyone has one in America. They should seriously look at what phones the Japanese have, ranging from Foma to Panasonic, and they will realize what an ancient bar of metal the “Razr” is.
Writing from Vancouver, Canada.

The worst gadget in my opinion is the Creative muvo n200. Because his firm ware is unstabile..

Promise you won’t tell anywone ? Ok, so it’s an Atari Lynx, the “Other Game Boy” I actually hesitated between the two 10 years ago. Clearly, I must have been drugged or something. If you’re too young you may not even know what I’m talking about ! Do some googsearch and have a laugh

Back the second one just in time my worst gadget was for sure a wifi usb key I bought some years ago. The thing would only produce blue screens on the old laptop I was using, it didn’t support half of the available channels either. where I got trapped is that it was a 802.11b card, and the g standard has been implemented in consummer products just weeks after I bought that wifi usb dongle. the only good point: it was cheap (no wonder!)

The worst in my life I think was a Samsung lcd monitor, it was one of the first lcd models when lcds were just beginning. I had to cut the cords before throwing it away because it was so bad that I didn’t want anybody take from the garbage to use it.

The worst gadget? Let me see… It was a LG cellphone MG320c (BRAZIL) or KG320 (EUA) this phone has a beautiful style, slim, few height, great LCD… but it has serious hardware problems like loud speaker sound, poor battery time, PC connection fails, java apps uncompatible, etc. If i was list all problems of this phone i’ll spend the whole day to finish. So that’s it. I hope LG correct this problems because this phone is very style..