Snore Reducing Pillow
The $129.95 price tag makes this 16 degrees of crap.
Pointless printer
In this economy if you have this much money to plonk down for a pointless disc printer then have at it.
Pig speakers
Fat, sumo wrestler, pigs with cords coming out of their bums. The world of speakers has hit a new low.
Einstein Brain Station
Stretch your mental acumen to the point where comparisons with the mind behind special and general relativity become reasonable, even necessary—by playing a $50 handheld Sudoku machine.
Reproduction Scale Hooks
At first sight, this $80 set appears to be a wonderful remnant of a bygone era, when precision engineering was wedded to intricate craftsmanship. Ah, but no.
“These are not working scales,” says the blurb at Signal, “but they will hold coats.”
Religious Scriptures
Eight reasons why most gadgets suck
Popular Mechanics’ worst gadgets of 2007
CrunchGear’s eight ugliest gadgets of all time
Worst Diamond-Encrusted gadgets
Ten reasons to throw away your cell phone
OpenMoko Freerunner
OpenMoko’s Freerunner is a valiant attempt at making a completely open-source cell phone, right down to the nuts and bolts. You can even download the CAD files for the handset. Unfortunately, Dave Fayram’s tested it, and reports that the user interface is crap.
More OpenMoko Train Wrecking (Now with Qt!) [Dave Fayram via BBG]