Tech & Gadgets
The bleeding edge of technology that mostly just bleeds your wallet. From smart devices with dumb ideas to gadgets that solve problems nobody has.
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Sceptre 30-Inch Curved UltraWide Monitor Review: UltraWide, Ultra-Bad
The Sceptre 30-inch UltraWide isn't just UltraWide — it's ultra-bad, the display equivalent of being punched in the face by your own poor choices.
Redfall Review: A Bloodsucking Disaster
If a vampire could suck the soul out of gaming, it would be Redfall. Arkane Studios decided to take a hard left turn and deliver this flaming dumpster full of shattered dreams and overpriced misery.
The Apple Butterfly Keyboard: The Keyboard That Turned a Sandwich Crumb Into an $800 Repair Bill
How Apple spent four years shipping MacBooks that could be disabled by a single grain of sand, a flake of skin, or an ambitious piece of dust
The NoPhone Zero: A Featureless Black Plastic Rectangle That Does Nothing, Costs $5, and 130 People Funded It on Kickstarter
They sold nothing. They called it a feature. And people bought it. The NoPhone Zero is what happens when satire becomes commerce. ⭐ Rating: 1/5 | Category: Auto & Outdoor | Tone:...
The Knee Defender: The Device So Obnoxious It Literally Got an Airplane Diverted
Two plastic clips that prevent the seat in front of you from reclining — resulting in water being thrown, passengers being removed, and a United flight landing in Chicago instead...
Juicero: Silicon Valley's $699 Monument to Solving Problems That Don't Exist, Then Solving Them Wrong
$120 million in venture capital. A Wi-Fi-connected juice press. A Bloomberg reporter squeezed the bag by hand and got juice faster. The founder now sells $40 'raw water.' ⭐...
The Amazon Fire Phone: The $650 Shopping Cart That Could Also Make Calls
How Jeff Bezos spent four years building a phone whose killer feature was making it easier to give Jeff Bezos money
Samsung Galaxy Note 7: The Phone That Tried to Cremate You
How Samsung spent $17 billion proving that lithium and hubris don't mix
Google Glass: The $1,500 Face Computer That Turned Wearers Into Social Pariahs
How Google spent $895 million inventing a new way to get punched in a San Francisco bar
The Theranos Edison Machine: The Blood-Testing Device That Couldn't Test Blood
How a 19-year-old dropout, a fake baritone, and a black turtleneck scammed $700 million from people who should have known better
The Ouya: The $99 Console That Proved You Get Exactly What You Pay For
How 63,000 Kickstarter backers funded the gaming equivalent of a Rubik's cube that plays phone games on your TV
The Amabrush: The Mouthguard That Promised to Brush Your Teeth in 10 Seconds and Then Brushed Your Wallet Clean
How a dental paint shaker raised $4 million on Kickstarter and delivered bankruptcy instead of oral hygiene ⭐ Rating: 1/5 | Category: Tech | Tone: Absurdist --- Brushing your...
The Skarp Laser Razor: The Razor That Might Blind You Before It Shaves You
How a razor with no working prototype raised $4 million on Kickstarter before the platform itself pulled the plug
The Nokia N-Gage: The Taco Phone That Failed at Being a Phone AND a Game Console
How Nokia built a device so ergonomically hostile that making a phone call required holding it sideways against your face like a slice of pizza
The Coolest Cooler: How $13 Million in Kickstarter Money Bought 20,000 People Absolutely Nothing
The portable party disguised as a cooler that was actually a Ponzi scheme disguised as a portable party
The Microsoft Zune: The Music Player That Bricked Itself on New Year's Eve Because It Couldn't Handle a Leap Year
How Microsoft's iPod killer killed nothing except its owners' patience and every 30GB unit on December 31, 2008
The Lily Camera Drone: The Selfie Drone That Faked Its Own Demo Video
How a startup raised $34 million in pre-orders for a drone that was actually a GoPro strapped to someone else's drone
Quibi: The $1.75 Billion Streaming Service That Died Faster Than Its 10-Minute Episodes
How two Hollywood legends burned through nearly $2 billion to prove that nobody wants to watch TV shows designed for the bathroom
Triton Artificial Gills: The Crowdfunded Device That Promised Humans Could Breathe Underwater Using Physics That Don't Exist
How $900,000 in backer money funded a mouthpiece that would require processing 90 liters of water per minute to keep you alive
The HAPIfork: The $100 Bluetooth Fork That Judged You Harder Than Your Mother-in-Law
How a French company put a gyroscope, a battery, and Bluetooth in a fork, charged $100, and solved exactly zero eating problems ⭐ Rating: 1/5 | Category: Tech | Tone:...
BreezeBot Home Robot: $800 for a Roomba With an Attitude Problem
This "home assistant robot" promised to be the future of domestic help. It vacuumed one room, knocked over a lamp, and then parked itself in a corner and refused to move.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold: The $2,000 Phone That Folded Exactly as Promised — Also When You Didn't Want It To
How Samsung's first foldable phone broke in reviewers' hands within 48 hours and taught the world that some screens should remain flat ⭐ Rating: 1/5 | Category: Tech | Tone:...
SmartFridge Pro: The $4,000 Refrigerator That Needs Its Own IT Department
It has a 21-inch touchscreen, a built-in camera, and WiFi. It also fails at its primary job: keeping food cold. Welcome to the future.
The Tiko 3D Printer: A 3D Printer That Couldn't Even Print Its Own Obituary
How three college kids raised $3 million, shipped 4,000 broken printers, and wrote the saddest Kickstarter farewell letter in crowdfunding history
The Philips CD-i: The Console That Made Link and Mario Look Like Crimes Against Animation
How a Dutch electronics company lost $1 billion making the worst Nintendo games that Nintendo didn't make ⭐ Rating: 1/5 | Category: Tech | Tone: Absurdist --- In 1991, Philips...