29 Examples of Flawed Technology That Shouldn’t Exist

Wasn’t technology supposed to be useful and helpful?
29 Examples of Flawed Technology That Shouldn’t Exist

There’s tech for everything. Need your daily steps measured? No problem. Need to know exactly how much money you have in the bank? Got it. Need to hover 65 feet off the ground and shoot lasers for miles? Okay, we don’t have that one yet, but it’s most assuredly coming.

In what is clearly a transparent grab to get you to buy new stuff, companies are constantly rolling out fancy new gadgets and technology. But because of that push, we’re surrounded by tech that either needs to be retired or never should have been invented in the first place. Even the most decent product now comes with features that add nothing to its usefulness, or, even more annoyingly, actually make it worse.

If I want to search for a show on my DVR, I have to use my remote's arrow keys to individually select each letter on an on-screen keyboard. You Tube S
CRACKED COM These noise canceling headphones cancel out constant noise from the train, but not the occasional pop up such as a noisy passenger, which
WIRELESS AIRBUD Easiest way to lose S20. If only they had some sort of string that would keep them together...
CRACKED COM Bathrooms with stalls that use a motion sensor instead of a lightswitch are the worst. Constipation is hard enough, I don't need the extra
CRACKED COM I shouldn't need dongles to make my laptop functional, but Apple decided to go all-in on USB-C.
CRACKED.COM Hello, hou Ca-- I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. Automated phone systems are terrible in every way, but the ones that use voice recognition
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Touch Screen Appliances Are like paying 70 extra for a crappy version of Jchis- your phone COAdALOU that can only be used in one location. CRACKED CO
POP UP TENTS ARE AWESOME UNTIL YOU TRY TO FOLD THEM BACK UP ABCOSPORT SDORT
CRACKED COM THE ANALOG AUDIO CABLE IS STILL BEING USED BY MUSICIANS TODAY DESPITE ITS NOISY SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP. SAME MAKE IGr F: CRACHI SNAP NOTBE!
Look like a tourist! Expensive! Fundamentally unstable! Zero exercise! L nrnnnn SEGWAY PT Looking for a reason to exist since 2001
TLESATOR XLERATOR Hand dryers seem sanitary, but they actually spread bacteria and fecal matter by blowing it around the air.
CRACKED.COM Car alarms go off arbitrarily sO often that no one takes them seriously anymore.
Why does software still new come out with the floppy disk icon signifying Save? A whole generation doesn't know what floppy disk a is waS. File Edit V
A touch screen on a car is a distraction. RA It's basically an accident waiting to happen. CRACKED COM
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Whose bright idea was it to 'upgrade' the connectors for USB drives into something thin and flimsy? Rnr inesy They run the risk of breaking every time
CRACKEDcO My car's dashboard lights up automatically when the engine's on. 100 120 80 140 km/h 160 3 60 40 180 999 102564 200 20 220 The problem is, t
I love how my car stereo takes over music from my phone, but I hate that it does it with phone calls. The audio quality is always awful, and the volum
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Laptops that don't have USB ports. They think they're being sleek but they're being hugely inconvenient. Lots and lots of people still use USB devices
MAWEEL Whats the point of making a super sleek phone.... If I also need to carry around a super thick power bank? Give me a phone whose battery won't
CRACKEDCON QLED TV My curved TV looks nice but its narrow viewing angle means that I have to watch all by myself
Why does everything nowadays have lights that can't be turned off or dimmed? G It's painfuily annoying when you're trying to sleep or watch a movie in
MY SMART PLUG STOPPED WORKING AND NOW IT WANTS ME TO LOG IN AND TYPE A PASSWORD TO TURN ON A LIGHT. TP-LINK
CRACKED.CON I CAN NEVER FIND MY TEENY TINY USB DRIVE. SMALLER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER. LIERTY has
CRACKEDcO The disc eject and power buttons on the PlayStation 4 are enabled by touch, SO whenever I wipe the system I'll accidentally turn it on and p
EXTRA THICK WIRES ARE WORSE THAN THE REGULAR CRAGh ONES. They're supposed provide the wires extra protection from breaking, and sure, they accomplish
GRAGKED.GON Gillelte There is absolutely no reason for a razor to vibrate. It's just a flimsy excuse to jack up the price.
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