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What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used?
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?"
Or lack thereof.
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The phone with the crappy camera, oh yeah I really need that.
In fact most multi use items are crap.
Non open connections, if in doubt just use USB.
Battery life measured in minutes not weeks, totally useless.
California portable fuel cans, total crap.
American car designers, another ugly car with no style and they try and sell you it based on an engine with push rod tech. Give me a nice well engineered Japanese or German car thanks.
McMansions with 6 bathrooms and no space for a yard. No class at all.
In fact most anything with an American designer sucks. Or is it anything that needs a designer sucks.
Keyboards with ever more useless keys. Same for mice.
Nuclear reactors that aren't pebble based.
one size fits all
etc etc
Power steering is the worst feature ever. It makes cars heavier, more expensive, and adds more components that leak and break. And in this era of rampant obesity it would be just as well to spend a little energy turning your steering wheel.