27 of the Worst Pieces of Tech People Have Owned

Nobody needed three seasons of Black Mirror to figure out that not all technology is beneficial, especially now, when our plastic-filled brains are boiling daily in what could be delicately described as a techno hellscape. It turns out Asimov’s novels were off because nobody told the robots they couldn’t hurt people in the first place. 

But even if your self-driving car isn’t accelerating into concrete bollards to try to shave two minutes off your commute, there’s a huge amount of tech that just kinda sucks. Which, given “smart” products’ price tags, hurts plenty all by itself.

Knowing this, though, doesn’t prevent some people from investing in the latest tech anyway, even if it sounds idiotic. You may not need a TV on your refrigerator, but the very idea sounds like something we should be into, right? As one Redditor found out: wrong! And given the rest of these stories, we can only hope they’ve learned from their mistakes.