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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]
BLING Stapler
Let us not criticize Best Buy’s BLING Stapler. It is what it says it is, after all, a refreshing note of honesty in a retail business gone mad. It is a stapler. It has BLING. $3.99 of BLING.
Tek Sketch
The jarring, breakneck pace of change is embodied in the TEK SKETCH. In the very name is a fusion of the future and the distant past, a summation of human history from the first crude cave painting to modernity’s hard-edged technological precision.