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What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used?

Posted by Cliff on from the if-they-were-fruit-they'd-be-lemons dept.

kooky45 asks: "In an effort to make our lives easier and more entertaining, technology designers pack more and more features into electronic devices, but often they're more nuisance than they're worth. An earlier article on LEDs discussed some of these. Another example is my Nokia 6320i mobile phone which has a back lit screen that drains the battery life at an alarming rate. When the phone is not in use the back light is off; if the battery starts to run low, it gives me regular warnings by beeping and turning the back light on! What other examples of designer stupidity have you seen?"

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  1. easy by geekoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    meta-moderation

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  2. Re:Get this... by Nimey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gore-Tex


    I first parsed that as "goatsex in running shoes". Please don't do that again.
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