Remember when this microwave with a computer was launched? They said it would be handy for looking up recipes! The thing is -who needs a recipe to use a microwave? And the computers we already were using were fully capable of looking up recipes. This is just one example from a list at Gizmodo of gadgets that crashed and burned because they were redundant, poorly designed, or just plain silly. Link -via the Presurfer

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