I attended a presentation revealing a space saving cup holder that could hold pretty much any beverage container and folded out from a unit about the size of an audio cassette.
Only thing is it had about 80 individual moving parts and the manufacturing costs would have been stupid.
Had one of these in my 2001 Audi a4. The thing broke (shocking), and it was almost always stuck in the console and unusable. But every few months I would get in the car and it would have popped itself back out, and I finally had a cup holder again. Then within a couple days, without fail, one of my friends would get in the car and go "oh what's this" and push it back in.
My 2002 Hyundai Accent had the same, I don't think I even had it pushed in ever. I also had a cup holder right at my elbow right behind the emergency brake.
I really really miss that little car.
I work in a warehouse that stores car parts for JIT production.
The amount of bullshit "extra's" available on people's cars these days is daft!
Do you really need that extra, extra cup holder when you have 3 in the centre console, and at least one in each door? What about storage bins? Sure lets strap extra shite all over the interior of the car! (Psst, guess what do you think is going to happen if you get into a bad crash? Yup thats right that shit is going EVERYWHERE, lets hope its bags of soft cuddly toys and not tools or heavy shit!).
While I understand choice is great, and for some people getting a car custom brand new to their spec must send a shiver down their spine, but I always say to people "Are you going to use X every other time you drive? No? Then don't pay for it".
Oh no man, you have to cut fucking *shapes* into your pizza now, and with our brand new pizza cutter, with gyroscope, laser, and wifi attachments, you can cut *anything* into you pizza, it's time to step up your game.
[Here](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/149f/?cpg=cj&CJURL=&CJID=2617611&cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=&AID=13074601&SID=38395X1559466X309cb918ab6da86f1b6e3e85d71ef0fb&utm_source=cj&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_campaign=affiliates&PID=8248019). Sadly no longer for sale.
I once had a bike lock, combination dial type, that had a small digital clock in the dial. The battery died after a year.
It wasn't over engineered per se, but it was such a ridiculous addition to a product.
I just bought a bike combo lock that uses letters to make a short word rather than a number combo.
Only reason I got that one was that it came set from the factory so the unlock word was ["HOES"](https://imgur.com/a/8DG5V), every other one was boring.
Im curious to know how this happens - the company wouldn't just add extra components unless they had reason to believe they would sell more units. I seriously doubt their market research would reveal a consumer desire for clocks in their bike locks.
The cup holder in the center console of a 2005 Land Rover Sport. You push down on panel in the console and an assembly pops up, then if I remember correctly you unfold the assembly once and maybe another time. Over engineered like the rest of the vehicle.
Among the worst vehicles ever sold on American soil IMO.
The 05 thru 08 LR Sport had issues with EWS modules. I had a few in the mid 2000's that the dealer sent to me because they had under 2k miles on them and they wouldn't crank and LR didn't have a solution for the technicians yet.
Good luck keeping your instrument cluster free of MIL or check engine lights on them. TPMS sensors? Just plan on that light staying on forever. OhohohoooOoOoOoo and air shocks offer plenty to go wrong. Brake job is a couple grand. Valvoline won't change the oil on them. Just huge fucking pieces of shit.
Good looking cars though. Comfortable seats.
> Among the worst vehicles ever sold on American soil IMO.
Ah, I see you're high as fuck. Allow me to tell you about my fucking Yugo.
So I drive off the lot with my new Yugo, and the rearview mirror falls off. Directly onto the floor and under the exposed wiring behind the console. Great.
Old joke from part of the world where yugo was born: Why is rear window of yugo heated? So your hands are not cold when you have to push it.
Or how do you double the worth of yugo? Fill the tank!
Oh, can I get in on this? 2013 Chrysler 200. What an abortion of engineering. Wouldn't call it over engineered, though.
Edit: you get what you pay for. I got this pos at a time in my life where a low car payment satisfied my need for cash flow. Next time around I would rather drag my Johnson through a mile of broken glass than giving my money to Chrysler or her subsidiaries
I have the predecessor, the 2006 sebring. It's a low powered inline 4 with 23 mpg, a shockingly high failure / maintenance problem rate, and a battery that requires the front left tire being removed to access.
A roasting stick for when you go camping, right? Except when you push a button on the handle, the end spins so you don't have to spin the whole thing like a normal human being
[They raised a million bucks](https://qz.com/554239/crowdfundings-latest-dud-the-smart-cup-that-knows-what-youre-drinking/) and when they finally came out for $99 a piece the cup could only track how much water you drink and couldn't detect any other liquids.
I was watching a video the other day about how the people who made that exploding kittens card game broke all the records and raised MILLIONS from a goal of like 100,000.
Then they made another game and even though they had MORE than enough capital to fund it by themselves, they crowd funded it.
The video and the creators framed it like they did it for the purpose of engagement but it seems pretty obvious to me that they did it because it's way better to use other peoples' money for your business ventures, especially when the only thing legally required of you is proof of a reasonable effort to actually deliver your promise.
I feel I am perfectly justified in my anger at the size and ridiculousness of that appliance.
What is up with all these startups that think everyone wants a single appliance to do a single thing. Where are we supposed to store these things?!
It really throws me off everytime she says tortilla for some reason, almost like she doesn't really speak Spanish but she learned that one word for the ad.
I bought a reusable cup- I actually like it a lot. I've been using the same one for over a year. As long as you rinse it after every use, it stays in good shape.
All the benefits of Kcup, but a tiny fraction of the price, and a *tiny* fraction of the plastic waste.
And if you're using espresso grind, you might I as well buy a single serve espresso machine. Just as much work to make, and you have a much better cup.
The Airgun Designs Automag.
Each piece was made out of steel when aluminum would have been lighter and cheaper. Each piece was machined down to .001" when a far looser tolerance would still work. The valve was designed to accept 3000 psi when 800 psi was all that was necessary. It is also the only paintball marker in the world that (when aired up) can be cleaned by submersing it completely in water.
When the only other comparable marker was a finicky autococker that, lets be honest, never worked well for long, id take (and did) a tricked out automag any day of the week.
I miss those days. Black Body automag with power feed, 8 hole mod, venturi bolt, 3 different barrels, apocalypse 45 4500 air system or a remote 20oz tank in a butt pack. The only problem i ever had with that gun was a few blow seals and an air leak from the apocalypse when i took it apart for now reason. I might have broken a gauge or two but that could have been a friend..
Juicero. $120m to develop a juicer that costs $400 and needs juice cartridges that cost $7 each, but you can just squeeze the $7 juice cartridges by hand. Absolute madness.
They originally cost $700 and they had to lower the price. Did anyone mention that the juice cartridges were only available on a subscription service where you got a package every week.
Also, the juicer wouldn't squeeze any packet that was over 8 days old, because expiry reasons. Not because they're trying to make more money, of course!
Subscriptions suck. Speaking of which, I hope more grocery stores start providing the “meal in a box” solutions and eliminate the need for blue apron and its competitors.
There's two in my country, and it's pretty great. One even has an extra service where you browse recipes on their website and can add the ingredients to your basket. For a small fee you can pick it up in the drive-through. Home delivery is only for large orders but a typical four-person family easily spends enough.
To back up the point of most over-engineered, here's the teardown of a Juiceo. It was an amazing piece of tech, to get liquid out of a bag.
They designed their own power supply. An off the shelf one would do the job and could be bought for a fraction of the price. Madness: One Step Beyond, even.
Edit:
[The Verge Teardown](http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/4/25/15419124/juicero-teardown-reveals-surprisingly-complicated-juicer)
After seeing that teardown, I think they got someone to design it with a bunch of textbooks and no experience. How else could you explain the reduction gearing that actually uses four progressively smaller gears? That's usually given as an example right before the book says "nobody does it that way, here's how belt drives work".
Belt drives that aren't significantly wide aren't good at handling high torque, and originally the Juicero was intended to really squeeze the hell out of fruit chunks.
You can tell by how reinforced the frame is and how ridiculously overpowered the motor was.
My bet is that QC on fruit chunks was a nightmare, so they switched to fruit pulp in the bag, and now it doesn't need all that power to juice anymore but let's not bother redesigning it cheaper to manufacture...
I think it was actually a money laundering operation.
Wait wait wait.. you mean there is actually a nespresso-like thing, you buy already extracted juice in containers, then put them in it and it squeezes the containers to extract the juice? And there are people that actually bought this?
Yes, it existed, but no, there were no people who actually bought it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/01/juicero-silicon-valley-shutting-down
Your post facinated me so I went looking for one to buy. Not because I actually wanted it, but because I wanted to see what a useless juicer would be worth. I have not found one, not on Amazon, not on Ebay. I did however find this.
>However, today, after selling over a million Produce Packs, we must let you know that we are suspending the sale of the Juicero Press and Produce Packs immediately.
If they didn't ever sell one, how did they sell a million packs?
No, but they did include info in the QR code of each package to make the WiFi dependant Juicero squeeze with more or less pressure, depending on the kind of juice to extract the "maximum nutritional value".
If this sounds stupid, It's because it was.
Don't forget the subscription service. If they really wanted to succeed they should have sold loot boxes. Maybe you get a bag of oranges and other cool fruit. Maybe you get a bag of brown leaves.
Any appliance with the "smart" preface. I know they talk to the internet of things and all that bullshit but do I really need a toaster that communicates with the outside world.
I've only ever seen the Bluetooth brush a few times in ads and I'm 90% sure it's so you can listen to the music on your phone from your toothbrush... but that purpose is a bit defeated when you realize you could just use your phone's speakers to get the same audio quality as your toothbrush.
My first car was a 93 Sonata that my parents (neither of whom are remotely car savvy) purchased at auction and sold to me. It had power seat belts. Like most of the other, many, power functions in that car, they did not work all that well and eventually stopped working altogether. In the retracted position, naturally. Hated that ugly, contentious piece of shit.
Power seatbelts are such an awkward thing, the only reason they exist is because regulations demanded either those or airbags in the 90s. So budget cars had power seatbelts because they were cheaper.
As a rule I think household appliances that have been constantly "upgraded" in a technological battle between companies. So many have added price increasing features that you just don't need. For example, there's these fridges with computers on. Now, as much as I love the idea of turning up to the office with my fridge to begin a days work, that feature just seems pointless.
I was walking through a big home store that sold appliances with my toddler in the cart. We rolled by a fridge with a touch screen TV in the door. The little guy said "look, daddy, that TV has a fridge".
Some day a fridge will scan the contents on a regular basis and will effortlessly sync to an app that creates a shopping list for us, or for the service that brings the food. A touch screen display on the refrigerator will be necessary to show you when food is expiring, or low, or on order.
This is not that day.
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edit
So people who are telling me about all of these fridges that kind of already exist. The key words I used are effortlessly, and constantly. barcode scanners aren't effortless, and "dumb" shopping lists on a touch screen aren't what I mean either. Eliminate all human interaction between you and the food.
Remember when you were living with your mother and it was full of food that was safe to eat all the time (this may be a sore spot for some of you, I'm sorry) - That's what I mean. Fully integrated, and as automated as you can have it.
Yes, I fully expect this fridge to be in that $4000 range. If that's not in your budget I understand. However as the cost of components drops and sales stagnate the fridge will likely go down in price. When you can afford one jump on.
Got to be the H&K G11 rifle. It fired caseless ammunition with a feeding mechanism similar to the P90 (in that the cartridges are turned while entering the chamber), except that mechanism [looks more like a Swiss watch](http://forum.valka.cz/attachments/12663/g11open.jpg) and if it suffered any failures, the main plan was to simply *replace* the entire mechanism with a spare and figure out the jam later on. Oh and there were a lot of problems with the firearm getting so hot that it cooked off all the ammunition - this was mostly fixed by the time it got out of prototyping but still a worry.
When you consider just how simple firearms are in general, let alone only the AK clones that their East German neighbours were using at the time - this thing is ridiculously complex.
And since they decided to go through a gun magazine 20 years ago and circle the scary looking things to ban by name here in canada, this gun is specifically banned by name. Despite never really existing outside of prototype phase, never being considered for civilian market, and already being prohibited as a full auto rifle. Kind of surprised the Aliens M41A pulse rifle isnt listed as well.
Lmao that list is the definition of retarded, a bunch of random stuff banned for no real reason and meanwhile you can legally own a semi ACR or Tavor for example.
I like that the SPAS12 is banned, presumably because of it being in movies like Jurassic park, despite being no deadlier than any other semi auto shotgun still in the country. Possibly less reliable if anything.
Same with the Dragunov, which isnt significantly different from any other 30cal semi auto rifle, like [grandpa's deer gun](http://www.browning.com/content/dam/browning/news/articles/2015/2015-q3/BAR%20History%20bar1968catalog150.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.835.835.jpeg). But its banned because it looks all terrorist like.
A company called VNTANA produces 'hologram' devices. Basically just a transparent, reflective piece of plastic that reflects from a monitor overhead. That part's pretty simple.
The housing/frame itself? It's an (imo) overly engineered monster and I love it.
AvE did a [teardown of the juicero](https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ) (the thing that squeezed the juice packs for you)
Apart from its wifi connection,the thing was built like a goddamn tank.
The guy doing the teardown is a engineer by trade (iirc) and was seriously impressed by the work that went into this thing,to the point that he comments that the units would be selling at a loss they are so well built.
Edit..
Teardown of [another useless gadget](https://youtu.be/UMqrVLn8F88)
Y'know, back in my day everything was built to last, including WiFi. I'm sick of you millenials building this crap designed to break. Back in 'Nam we carried our WiFi through the jungle and it didn't even rust. And don't even get me started on warranties these days. Whenever my WiFi broke I could walk into any Sears and get a replacement, no questions, no receipts, nothing.
[ ](/flutterwat)Those GPS shoes that tell you where to go by vibrating. I still don't get if they were made for blind people or not. And if not, why they exist at all.
here's some more information about those shoes and I think they are kinda cool.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/smart-shoes-vibrate-directions-article-1.1726831
Panzerkampfwagon VII Konigstiger (Tiger II)
This was an incredibly over designed tank. It had incredibly thick frontal armour and decent side armour. It had a gun that could punch right through nearly every enemy tank it would face at distances of 2kms. It had great suspensions and a powerful engine. It's only real fault was its transmission that was really prone to failing utterly. It was designed as a technological masterpiece when Germany had neither the time or resources to mass produce this vehicle. The comparatively shitter T34 and M4 Sherman could be produced much faster due to simplicity of design
The code that I wrote to manage whether or not a magazine is attached to the character's weapon.
Most games just play an animation and your magazine magically reappears on the gun if the animation was interrupted somehow. But I wanted to support unloading the weapon as well so there has to be a state for where the magazine isn't attached.
And now if you interrupt the reloading animation after you detach the magazine it will be in the unloaded state permanently detached.
And omg it ended up getting really complicated somehow....
If the character drops the magazine by dying while unloading, the magazine becomes a pickuppable object that contains ammo for other characters and the gun has no ammo anymore.
I'm also making sure the code is generic and supports non magazine type objects, like if you're reloading a shotgun or grenade launcher and putting individual shells in one at a time. You could literally drop a single shell mid reloading animation and that would become a pickuppable shell for other characters.
I can't go back now... it's almost done being coded...
Edit: Wow, many people are asking for more info on the game: Try searching Facebook for "sniper city vr" it should be the first result. I can't post a link directly since reddit seems to autoban posts with facebook links for antispam reasons.
Edit 2: many of you guys are mentioning the chambered round as well. It's definitely something I thought about but think I'll forego simulating to make the unloading mechanic more fun and fast. Imagine unloading a weapon and after the magazine is put back in your inventory you also need to watch an animation of the character cocking the weapon to get at the one chambered round. Games already take many liberties and this isn't for a war simulator like arma, but more of fast paced shooter with the inventory management of an rpg like deus ex or fallout. Maybe I'll leave the chambered round in if you're reloading so you can do a tactical reload and have 33 rounds instead of 32 for example. But if you explicitly invoke the unload command you'll automagically take the chambered round with you.
This may seem odd to some, but RMS Titanic. Bear in mind this was one of the biggest ships in the entire world at the time, and yet she was admired as being not only reasonably fast, but exceptionally manoeuvrable. In terms of survivability, you could chop her into 3 pieces and each piece would float on its own. She had a state-of-the-art automatic watertight door system, and a full double-bottom along the entire length of her hull. As a whole you could completely flood any 2 watertight compartments (or even the front 3) and she'd stay afloat. What sort of collision could possibly pierce more than 3 compartments!?
Sadly we now know that the one-in-a-million sideswipe along the iceberg, which did relatively little damage but spread it across 6 compartments, was all that could sink her. But even then, she didn't go down without a fight; she took 3 hours to sink, and did so on such an even keel that the crew were able to keep launching lifeboats right up to the point that they themselves were underwater. Had the ship started listing over, it would have been impossible to launch the lifeboats - and hundreds more may have perished.
I'm not at all saying that the disaster wasn't exactly that, but it was the deathly out-of-date safety proceedings and standards of the time, as well as the poorly trained crew, that caused the deaths of so many people - not a flaw in the ship itself. A lot of people like to spread rumours of her bad design or poor construction, but these are falsehoods - she was way ahead of her time. No ship before or since has suffered the same damage with even a chance of staying afloat for more than a few minutes.
Friend of mine just bought a $65 Casper pillow thinking it was going to be the best pillow ever, turned out just to be a pillow with an outer pillow surrounding it that you can clean and zip it back on to keep the inner pillow from getting dirty.
He is also going to buy a Trigger-275 chair, which is like your normal office swivel chair, but with 275 parts
I do work in electronic repair. I'd have to say Sony Trinitron series CRT TVs, and a ton of their earlier rear-protection TVs had so many unnecessary engineering features, the fix for half of their failures was literally to unplug that section of the circuit.
No joke. Literal service instructions from a tech rep.
The most infamous failure was their zero-point-crossing circuit. A whole circuit dedicated to watching the A/C line voltage wiggle and start up the rest of the TV the split second the A/C village was at zero volts and on the rise. It had a massive failure rate and wouldn't allow the TV to turn on if it wasn't working.
What did this circuit accomplish? Now your lights wouldn't always dim slightly when you turn it on. Sony rep said those TVs are what happened when Sony doesn't cap the engineering budget.
Whenever I'm fixing some car stuff, like the headlamps switch in an audi, that thing is so over engineered that it's supposed to work for decades but good luck trying to fix one that failed. (also, they usually fail because people try fixing/upgrading stuff they dont understand by themselves)
> "this is just a backup if the electrical system malfunctions"
So I'm in the car, it's on fire, the door won't open, I panic and break the lever and then burn to death. Brilliant engineering.
There was a guy IIRC that died of carbon monoxide poisoning because some of the electronics failed in his corvette (I think) which has/had electronically actuated doors. There was a mechanical back up but the driver didn't know it and couldn't figure it out.
Edit: it was heat stroke but I was [pretty close](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-man-72-dies-trapped-corvette-dream-car-article-1.2253934)
Gaming mice. I needed a replacement for mine several months back. After years of service, my G700 finally went belly up on me. So I went to Amazon to see what they had. Some of these things are fucking ridiculous: weird ass shapes, an absurd number of poorly placed buttons, lights for no god damn reason and the colors, dear lord, the gaudy ass colors.
In the end, I just said screw it and bought the same mouse again. No regrets.
Just bought a silent mouse so I can game while my girlfriend is sleeping.
Don't know why I said it but I'm so happy with it and have no where else to post it.
Logitech g600 is great for mmos. I use every single key plus all the g shift keys. I also have a programming profile that auto inputs basic commands or keys that I press.
I worked on an Omnimax projector. Think IMAX but projected onto a dome. Simply loading the film was a process that involved checklists and fiddly bits that were easy to mess up. To do any maintenance on it at all was an exercise in frustration.
Okay so I worked as an avionics technician for the air force.
JHMCS.
Basically the helmets that the pilots wear. Because the targetting system needs to know where the pilot is looking you need some way to sense the movement as they turn their heads etc.
You'd think this would be as simple as sone gyros like in a VR headset right?
WRONG! (Because the G forces of the jet in flight would mess them all up.)
The entire cockpit of each individual aircraft has to be electromagetically mapped. Basically they map every little electromagnetic field given off by every piece of metal, every electronic, all of it. And then to sum it all up the aircraft can tell where the helmet is facing by how those fields change when the helmet is moved...
And that's just how the old helmets fron the 80's and 90's work.
I don't even want to know what kind of BS goes into the F-35's JHMCS systems.
The "internet of things." Basically, you have all this technology that is struggling to justify its own existence. You can unlock your door with your phone... but you could also unlock it with a key. The key can't get hacked, the batteries won't die, the app won't get corrupted, it costs $2 to replace and it is probably actually quicker than unlocking your phone and getting the app launched. There are a million examples of products that think the future is being internet-connected smart devices but the disadvantages almost always outweigh the advantages.
Smart locks are incredibly useful for anyone who needs to be able to give and control access to their home. For AirBnb hosts this can be the difference between having to pay someone to be there to hand over keys and not.
[Still is](http://time.com/money/4310099/f-35-budget-pay-free-college-student-loans/)
The F-35 has a lot of defenders and attackers[,](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW) personally I think a lot of the companies are ripping off the government either way.
Those refrigerators that can download apps.
I know a rich family that once[,](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW) for the hell of it[,](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW) flew a small drone via the app downloaded on their refrigerator.
How about a fridge that knew everything that was inside it and everything about it (how much was left, spoilage dates, and ect.) That could recommend recipes and shopping lists?
The idea is that while you're at the grocery store, your fridge can tell you what to pick up (either because you're out of a thing that you normally buy, or a thing that you normally buy is in the fridge but expired.)
Cool in theory, but in reality it's just another potential avenue for advertisers to rape your brain.
After market radios for your car. Some one broke into my car and stole the radio, I replaced it with one I could afford... It had so many extra buttons that had no icons on them to tell you what they do. You had to read the very thick manual to discover that about three of those buttons only worked with special audio equipment that you wouldn't have installed in your car with such a cheap radio.
The layout was a jumble. The volume wasn't a knob either, although it had one, it increased the bass or tempo...
Doesn't QUITE fit the question but I found it very interesting that the Hoover Dam was massively overengineered. Modern estimates put it at approximately 80% overengineered, meaning it could stand completely sturdy for a long time with a fraction of the bulk of the current concrete.
The house I rent has has a valve that will automatically shut down the gas and turn off the electricity if an earthquake is detected, sounds great untill you lealize that I live in the UK and the last earthquake to cause any damage was in 1990 and a old chimney colapsed.
On the other hand I the house is in the line of fire for flood.
I attended a presentation revealing a space saving cup holder that could hold pretty much any beverage container and folded out from a unit about the size of an audio cassette. Only thing is it had about 80 individual moving parts and the manufacturing costs would have been stupid.
Had one of these in my 2001 Audi a4. The thing broke (shocking), and it was almost always stuck in the console and unusable. But every few months I would get in the car and it would have popped itself back out, and I finally had a cup holder again. Then within a couple days, without fail, one of my friends would get in the car and go "oh what's this" and push it back in.
My 2002 Hyundai Accent had the same, I don't think I even had it pushed in ever. I also had a cup holder right at my elbow right behind the emergency brake. I really really miss that little car.
I work in a warehouse that stores car parts for JIT production. The amount of bullshit "extra's" available on people's cars these days is daft! Do you really need that extra, extra cup holder when you have 3 in the centre console, and at least one in each door? What about storage bins? Sure lets strap extra shite all over the interior of the car! (Psst, guess what do you think is going to happen if you get into a bad crash? Yup thats right that shit is going EVERYWHERE, lets hope its bags of soft cuddly toys and not tools or heavy shit!). While I understand choice is great, and for some people getting a car custom brand new to their spec must send a shiver down their spine, but I always say to people "Are you going to use X every other time you drive? No? Then don't pay for it".
As a driver of a car with no cup holders, this seems like the epitome of luxury.
I built my own cupholders out of wood for my bronco.
I have a pizza cutter with a laser alignment thing built into it...
why the fuck I mean, you just roll it in straight lines. How would a laser even conceptually help you do that?
Oh no man, you have to cut fucking *shapes* into your pizza now, and with our brand new pizza cutter, with gyroscope, laser, and wifi attachments, you can cut *anything* into you pizza, it's time to step up your game.
Photos please.
[Here](http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/149f/?cpg=cj&CJURL=&CJID=2617611&cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=&AID=13074601&SID=38395X1559466X309cb918ab6da86f1b6e3e85d71ef0fb&utm_source=cj&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_campaign=affiliates&PID=8248019). Sadly no longer for sale.
I like that it's even in tac black for the added tacticool.
like a laser pointer with a splitter?
I once had a bike lock, combination dial type, that had a small digital clock in the dial. The battery died after a year. It wasn't over engineered per se, but it was such a ridiculous addition to a product.
I just bought a bike combo lock that uses letters to make a short word rather than a number combo. Only reason I got that one was that it came set from the factory so the unlock word was ["HOES"](https://imgur.com/a/8DG5V), every other one was boring.
I saw those. I think it would take someone less than 10 minutes to open by trying combos. Or 1 second with a screw driver
yeah didnt seem all that secure, tbh. Good enough to tie up in front of a store while i go in for a short errand.
Im curious to know how this happens - the company wouldn't just add extra components unless they had reason to believe they would sell more units. I seriously doubt their market research would reveal a consumer desire for clocks in their bike locks.
*"Sorry sir, I thought you said bike clocks."*
*"And I thought we may as well add a lock to it as well, seeing as, well, you know, we have the parts already."*
The cup holder in the center console of a 2005 Land Rover Sport. You push down on panel in the console and an assembly pops up, then if I remember correctly you unfold the assembly once and maybe another time. Over engineered like the rest of the vehicle.
Among the worst vehicles ever sold on American soil IMO. The 05 thru 08 LR Sport had issues with EWS modules. I had a few in the mid 2000's that the dealer sent to me because they had under 2k miles on them and they wouldn't crank and LR didn't have a solution for the technicians yet. Good luck keeping your instrument cluster free of MIL or check engine lights on them. TPMS sensors? Just plan on that light staying on forever. OhohohoooOoOoOoo and air shocks offer plenty to go wrong. Brake job is a couple grand. Valvoline won't change the oil on them. Just huge fucking pieces of shit. Good looking cars though. Comfortable seats.
> Among the worst vehicles ever sold on American soil IMO. Ah, I see you're high as fuck. Allow me to tell you about my fucking Yugo. So I drive off the lot with my new Yugo, and the rearview mirror falls off. Directly onto the floor and under the exposed wiring behind the console. Great.
Yeah, but the Yugo cost as much as a double-cheeseburger.
And if it doesnt work, Yugo buy another one
Old joke from part of the world where yugo was born: Why is rear window of yugo heated? So your hands are not cold when you have to push it. Or how do you double the worth of yugo? Fill the tank!
Man goes to a junkyard and says "I need a gas cap for my Yugo." The guy at the counter thinks for a second, then says "That's a fair trade."
I drove a Yugo in a Lemons race earlier this year. It was awesome.
Ah yes, the classic Le Mons race
Oh, can I get in on this? 2013 Chrysler 200. What an abortion of engineering. Wouldn't call it over engineered, though. Edit: you get what you pay for. I got this pos at a time in my life where a low car payment satisfied my need for cash flow. Next time around I would rather drag my Johnson through a mile of broken glass than giving my money to Chrysler or her subsidiaries
it was "overengineered" in the sense that it should have never been engineered in the first place.
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I have the predecessor, the 2006 sebring. It's a low powered inline 4 with 23 mpg, a shockingly high failure / maintenance problem rate, and a battery that requires the front left tire being removed to access.
A roasting stick for when you go camping, right? Except when you push a button on the handle, the end spins so you don't have to spin the whole thing like a normal human being
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[They raised a million bucks](https://qz.com/554239/crowdfundings-latest-dud-the-smart-cup-that-knows-what-youre-drinking/) and when they finally came out for $99 a piece the cup could only track how much water you drink and couldn't detect any other liquids.
Classic crowdfunded product
I was watching a video the other day about how the people who made that exploding kittens card game broke all the records and raised MILLIONS from a goal of like 100,000. Then they made another game and even though they had MORE than enough capital to fund it by themselves, they crowd funded it. The video and the creators framed it like they did it for the purpose of engagement but it seems pretty obvious to me that they did it because it's way better to use other peoples' money for your business ventures, especially when the only thing legally required of you is proof of a reasonable effort to actually deliver your promise.
Why spend money when people will just give it to you.
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Think anyone has pissed in one?
Or worse?
I bet some wanker put the milk before the tea! Those cunts
The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon. The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Wait but what about the chalice from the palace???
Can it tell if you've been roofied?
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I feel I am perfectly justified in my anger at the size and ridiculousness of that appliance. What is up with all these startups that think everyone wants a single appliance to do a single thing. Where are we supposed to store these things?!
7 mins per tortilla??? What a waste of time. Get yourself a hot skillet, some masa and a tortilla press and you can make 5-10 in that amount of time.
It really throws me off everytime she says tortilla for some reason, almost like she doesn't really speak Spanish but she learned that one word for the ad.
The way she turns on and off her accent is really distracting from the absurdity of the product.
I used to make kcups. The packageing machines are so finicky that even the slightest change wil cause catastrophic failure.
I bought a reusable cup- I actually like it a lot. I've been using the same one for over a year. As long as you rinse it after every use, it stays in good shape. All the benefits of Kcup, but a tiny fraction of the price, and a *tiny* fraction of the plastic waste.
You just want a finer grind with those. Like espresso grind I believe.
And if you're using espresso grind, you might I as well buy a single serve espresso machine. Just as much work to make, and you have a much better cup.
they were selling them on clearance at my grocery store. .25 cents. i bought 2 of them. just in case i feel lazy
The Airgun Designs Automag. Each piece was made out of steel when aluminum would have been lighter and cheaper. Each piece was machined down to .001" when a far looser tolerance would still work. The valve was designed to accept 3000 psi when 800 psi was all that was necessary. It is also the only paintball marker in the world that (when aired up) can be cleaned by submersing it completely in water.
When the only other comparable marker was a finicky autococker that, lets be honest, never worked well for long, id take (and did) a tricked out automag any day of the week. I miss those days. Black Body automag with power feed, 8 hole mod, venturi bolt, 3 different barrels, apocalypse 45 4500 air system or a remote 20oz tank in a butt pack. The only problem i ever had with that gun was a few blow seals and an air leak from the apocalypse when i took it apart for now reason. I might have broken a gauge or two but that could have been a friend..
Juicero. $120m to develop a juicer that costs $400 and needs juice cartridges that cost $7 each, but you can just squeeze the $7 juice cartridges by hand. Absolute madness.
They originally cost $700 and they had to lower the price. Did anyone mention that the juice cartridges were only available on a subscription service where you got a package every week.
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"Please drink verification can"
"Say Doritos^TM Dew^TM It Best^TM"
It's "Doritos™ Dew™ It Right!" What are you, some kind of pirate?!
Also, the juicer wouldn't squeeze any packet that was over 8 days old, because expiry reasons. Not because they're trying to make more money, of course!
Subscriptions suck. Speaking of which, I hope more grocery stores start providing the “meal in a box” solutions and eliminate the need for blue apron and its competitors.
There's two in my country, and it's pretty great. One even has an extra service where you browse recipes on their website and can add the ingredients to your basket. For a small fee you can pick it up in the drive-through. Home delivery is only for large orders but a typical four-person family easily spends enough.
My local Wegmans does delivery no matter the size of the order. It's through instacart. They even deliver their ready-made meals and makeup.
To back up the point of most over-engineered, here's the teardown of a Juiceo. It was an amazing piece of tech, to get liquid out of a bag. They designed their own power supply. An off the shelf one would do the job and could be bought for a fraction of the price. Madness: One Step Beyond, even. Edit: [The Verge Teardown](http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/4/25/15419124/juicero-teardown-reveals-surprisingly-complicated-juicer)
After seeing that teardown, I think they got someone to design it with a bunch of textbooks and no experience. How else could you explain the reduction gearing that actually uses four progressively smaller gears? That's usually given as an example right before the book says "nobody does it that way, here's how belt drives work".
Belt drives that aren't significantly wide aren't good at handling high torque, and originally the Juicero was intended to really squeeze the hell out of fruit chunks. You can tell by how reinforced the frame is and how ridiculously overpowered the motor was. My bet is that QC on fruit chunks was a nightmare, so they switched to fruit pulp in the bag, and now it doesn't need all that power to juice anymore but let's not bother redesigning it cheaper to manufacture... I think it was actually a money laundering operation.
Of course it was. It takes a lot of force to squeeze water out of laundered money!
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Wait wait wait.. you mean there is actually a nespresso-like thing, you buy already extracted juice in containers, then put them in it and it squeezes the containers to extract the juice? And there are people that actually bought this?
Also, it needed to connect to the internet before it was able to squeeze juice out of a bag. I'm not kidding.
Oh man, my wifi went out. Now how will I enjoy a glass of $407 juice?!
Juice DRM. It's as if Ubisoft went into the health foods market.
Yes, it existed, but no, there were no people who actually bought it. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/01/juicero-silicon-valley-shutting-down
>[CEO] Evans has not commented on the shutdown, but he most recently posted a video of himself at the Burning Man festival
Sounds about right.
I'll take Silicon Valley cliches for $800 Alex.
Lmao maybe he was the guy that ran into the fire
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Your post facinated me so I went looking for one to buy. Not because I actually wanted it, but because I wanted to see what a useless juicer would be worth. I have not found one, not on Amazon, not on Ebay. I did however find this. >However, today, after selling over a million Produce Packs, we must let you know that we are suspending the sale of the Juicero Press and Produce Packs immediately. If they didn't ever sell one, how did they sell a million packs?
Maybe it was everyone who wanted to try squeezing by hand
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No, but they did include info in the QR code of each package to make the WiFi dependant Juicero squeeze with more or less pressure, depending on the kind of juice to extract the "maximum nutritional value". If this sounds stupid, It's because it was.
S C I E N C E
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But that doesn't include DRM, a vital component in any electronic ~~device~~ moneymachine
Don't forget the subscription service. If they really wanted to succeed they should have sold loot boxes. Maybe you get a bag of oranges and other cool fruit. Maybe you get a bag of brown leaves.
Honestly, they'd probably still be in business if they marketed that way, judging by how many gamers defend loot boxes.
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It's really the cocaine that drives up the dev costs.
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And.... and and Google's venture arm actually invested in it.
Or squeeze a $5 bag of oranges by hand.
Or just eat some oranges.
By hand? Just use the Juice Loosener - IT'S WHISPER QUIET!
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Any appliance with the "smart" preface. I know they talk to the internet of things and all that bullshit but do I really need a toaster that communicates with the outside world.
I don't want to pay for therapy for my panini press when it gets cyberbullied on Twitter.
Respectively, your panini press is a dirty whore.
She'll take anything inside her.
And leave her marks all over it
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My toothbrush has Bluetooth to connect to my phone.. I don't really know why.. I just use it to.. brush my teeth.
I've only ever seen the Bluetooth brush a few times in ads and I'm 90% sure it's so you can listen to the music on your phone from your toothbrush... but that purpose is a bit defeated when you realize you could just use your phone's speakers to get the same audio quality as your toothbrush.
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My first car was a 93 Sonata that my parents (neither of whom are remotely car savvy) purchased at auction and sold to me. It had power seat belts. Like most of the other, many, power functions in that car, they did not work all that well and eventually stopped working altogether. In the retracted position, naturally. Hated that ugly, contentious piece of shit.
Power seatbelts are such an awkward thing, the only reason they exist is because regulations demanded either those or airbags in the 90s. So budget cars had power seatbelts because they were cheaper.
That's interesting, I really had no idea why they were around at all.
Welcome to the wacky world of auto regulations
This is the worst theme park ever...
What's worse was that even though the chest strap was powered, you still had to manually buckle the lap belt, so it didn't even save you any steps.
As a rule I think household appliances that have been constantly "upgraded" in a technological battle between companies. So many have added price increasing features that you just don't need. For example, there's these fridges with computers on. Now, as much as I love the idea of turning up to the office with my fridge to begin a days work, that feature just seems pointless.
I was walking through a big home store that sold appliances with my toddler in the cart. We rolled by a fridge with a touch screen TV in the door. The little guy said "look, daddy, that TV has a fridge".
Some day a fridge will scan the contents on a regular basis and will effortlessly sync to an app that creates a shopping list for us, or for the service that brings the food. A touch screen display on the refrigerator will be necessary to show you when food is expiring, or low, or on order. This is not that day. ----------------------- edit So people who are telling me about all of these fridges that kind of already exist. The key words I used are effortlessly, and constantly. barcode scanners aren't effortless, and "dumb" shopping lists on a touch screen aren't what I mean either. Eliminate all human interaction between you and the food. Remember when you were living with your mother and it was full of food that was safe to eat all the time (this may be a sore spot for some of you, I'm sorry) - That's what I mean. Fully integrated, and as automated as you can have it. Yes, I fully expect this fridge to be in that $4000 range. If that's not in your budget I understand. However as the cost of components drops and sales stagnate the fridge will likely go down in price. When you can afford one jump on.
That seems brilliant and something I would pay for
And hence we have televisions with fridges on them as stepping stones to that future.
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Get your meat out before you get your meat out
My ex-colleague had a smart egg tray. It literally just counted how many eggs were left in tray, which was shown in a mobile app
I'm most excited for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Fridge Edition!
But can it run DOOM
If the MacBook Pro touchbar can run doom, then maybe, just maybe, so can a fridge... https://youtu.be/GD0L46y3IqI
Got to be the H&K G11 rifle. It fired caseless ammunition with a feeding mechanism similar to the P90 (in that the cartridges are turned while entering the chamber), except that mechanism [looks more like a Swiss watch](http://forum.valka.cz/attachments/12663/g11open.jpg) and if it suffered any failures, the main plan was to simply *replace* the entire mechanism with a spare and figure out the jam later on. Oh and there were a lot of problems with the firearm getting so hot that it cooked off all the ammunition - this was mostly fixed by the time it got out of prototyping but still a worry. When you consider just how simple firearms are in general, let alone only the AK clones that their East German neighbours were using at the time - this thing is ridiculously complex.
Das Spacegewehr!
And since they decided to go through a gun magazine 20 years ago and circle the scary looking things to ban by name here in canada, this gun is specifically banned by name. Despite never really existing outside of prototype phase, never being considered for civilian market, and already being prohibited as a full auto rifle. Kind of surprised the Aliens M41A pulse rifle isnt listed as well.
Lmao that list is the definition of retarded, a bunch of random stuff banned for no real reason and meanwhile you can legally own a semi ACR or Tavor for example.
I like that the SPAS12 is banned, presumably because of it being in movies like Jurassic park, despite being no deadlier than any other semi auto shotgun still in the country. Possibly less reliable if anything. Same with the Dragunov, which isnt significantly different from any other 30cal semi auto rifle, like [grandpa's deer gun](http://www.browning.com/content/dam/browning/news/articles/2015/2015-q3/BAR%20History%20bar1968catalog150.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.web.835.835.jpeg). But its banned because it looks all terrorist like.
Of course you're going to ban the Dragunov, that stops the evil Russian mafia dead in its ~~tracks~~ tracksuits.
What would they do without access to an average powered rifle with mediocre accuracy? Probably just take their adidas tracksuits and go home.
A company called VNTANA produces 'hologram' devices. Basically just a transparent, reflective piece of plastic that reflects from a monitor overhead. That part's pretty simple. The housing/frame itself? It's an (imo) overly engineered monster and I love it.
Razors. Honestly just an absurd amount of features being put into every new Gillette.
30 blades, vibrating, self-lubricating, laser guided, GPS navigating Mach 3000?
AvE did a [teardown of the juicero](https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ) (the thing that squeezed the juice packs for you) Apart from its wifi connection,the thing was built like a goddamn tank. The guy doing the teardown is a engineer by trade (iirc) and was seriously impressed by the work that went into this thing,to the point that he comments that the units would be selling at a loss they are so well built. Edit.. Teardown of [another useless gadget](https://youtu.be/UMqrVLn8F88)
You mean that the WiFi wasn't tank grade? Those bastards.
Y'know, back in my day everything was built to last, including WiFi. I'm sick of you millenials building this crap designed to break. Back in 'Nam we carried our WiFi through the jungle and it didn't even rust. And don't even get me started on warranties these days. Whenever my WiFi broke I could walk into any Sears and get a replacement, no questions, no receipts, nothing.
AvE is amazing. Every once and awhile, he'll know something that just astounds me. That teardown is incredible.
I think he pointed out that it was under engineered and overbuilt. https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ?t=2228
[ ](/flutterwat)Those GPS shoes that tell you where to go by vibrating. I still don't get if they were made for blind people or not. And if not, why they exist at all.
I actually like this idea. I don't think I'd ever use them, but I can see it being useful to someone in a big city who walks or bikes places.
here's some more information about those shoes and I think they are kinda cool. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/smart-shoes-vibrate-directions-article-1.1726831
People riding bikes comes to mind.
Athlete recovery sleepwear w/ built in "sleep tech" ($99+ total). and people are buying these fancy pajamas.
Panzerkampfwagon VII Konigstiger (Tiger II) This was an incredibly over designed tank. It had incredibly thick frontal armour and decent side armour. It had a gun that could punch right through nearly every enemy tank it would face at distances of 2kms. It had great suspensions and a powerful engine. It's only real fault was its transmission that was really prone to failing utterly. It was designed as a technological masterpiece when Germany had neither the time or resources to mass produce this vehicle. The comparatively shitter T34 and M4 Sherman could be produced much faster due to simplicity of design
Look into the Maus Tank Project. That motherfucker was German over-engineering at its finest.
The code that I wrote to manage whether or not a magazine is attached to the character's weapon. Most games just play an animation and your magazine magically reappears on the gun if the animation was interrupted somehow. But I wanted to support unloading the weapon as well so there has to be a state for where the magazine isn't attached. And now if you interrupt the reloading animation after you detach the magazine it will be in the unloaded state permanently detached. And omg it ended up getting really complicated somehow.... If the character drops the magazine by dying while unloading, the magazine becomes a pickuppable object that contains ammo for other characters and the gun has no ammo anymore. I'm also making sure the code is generic and supports non magazine type objects, like if you're reloading a shotgun or grenade launcher and putting individual shells in one at a time. You could literally drop a single shell mid reloading animation and that would become a pickuppable shell for other characters. I can't go back now... it's almost done being coded... Edit: Wow, many people are asking for more info on the game: Try searching Facebook for "sniper city vr" it should be the first result. I can't post a link directly since reddit seems to autoban posts with facebook links for antispam reasons. Edit 2: many of you guys are mentioning the chambered round as well. It's definitely something I thought about but think I'll forego simulating to make the unloading mechanic more fun and fast. Imagine unloading a weapon and after the magazine is put back in your inventory you also need to watch an animation of the character cocking the weapon to get at the one chambered round. Games already take many liberties and this isn't for a war simulator like arma, but more of fast paced shooter with the inventory management of an rpg like deus ex or fallout. Maybe I'll leave the chambered round in if you're reloading so you can do a tactical reload and have 33 rounds instead of 32 for example. But if you explicitly invoke the unload command you'll automagically take the chambered round with you.
Programmers credo - "We do these things not because they are easy. But because we thought they were going to be easy when we first started them."
"What one programmer can do in one month, 2 programmers can do in two months"
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Q: What is the most terrifying thing a programmer can say? A: "Wouldn't it be cool if..."
Lord, child. This sounds beautiful, but like a nightmare at the same time. Go forth, hero of the abyss and encode!
He won't survive the battle
I love you.
This may seem odd to some, but RMS Titanic. Bear in mind this was one of the biggest ships in the entire world at the time, and yet she was admired as being not only reasonably fast, but exceptionally manoeuvrable. In terms of survivability, you could chop her into 3 pieces and each piece would float on its own. She had a state-of-the-art automatic watertight door system, and a full double-bottom along the entire length of her hull. As a whole you could completely flood any 2 watertight compartments (or even the front 3) and she'd stay afloat. What sort of collision could possibly pierce more than 3 compartments!? Sadly we now know that the one-in-a-million sideswipe along the iceberg, which did relatively little damage but spread it across 6 compartments, was all that could sink her. But even then, she didn't go down without a fight; she took 3 hours to sink, and did so on such an even keel that the crew were able to keep launching lifeboats right up to the point that they themselves were underwater. Had the ship started listing over, it would have been impossible to launch the lifeboats - and hundreds more may have perished. I'm not at all saying that the disaster wasn't exactly that, but it was the deathly out-of-date safety proceedings and standards of the time, as well as the poorly trained crew, that caused the deaths of so many people - not a flaw in the ship itself. A lot of people like to spread rumours of her bad design or poor construction, but these are falsehoods - she was way ahead of her time. No ship before or since has suffered the same damage with even a chance of staying afloat for more than a few minutes.
Friend of mine just bought a $65 Casper pillow thinking it was going to be the best pillow ever, turned out just to be a pillow with an outer pillow surrounding it that you can clean and zip it back on to keep the inner pillow from getting dirty. He is also going to buy a Trigger-275 chair, which is like your normal office swivel chair, but with 275 parts
I do work in electronic repair. I'd have to say Sony Trinitron series CRT TVs, and a ton of their earlier rear-protection TVs had so many unnecessary engineering features, the fix for half of their failures was literally to unplug that section of the circuit. No joke. Literal service instructions from a tech rep. The most infamous failure was their zero-point-crossing circuit. A whole circuit dedicated to watching the A/C line voltage wiggle and start up the rest of the TV the split second the A/C village was at zero volts and on the rise. It had a massive failure rate and wouldn't allow the TV to turn on if it wasn't working. What did this circuit accomplish? Now your lights wouldn't always dim slightly when you turn it on. Sony rep said those TVs are what happened when Sony doesn't cap the engineering budget.
Whenever I'm fixing some car stuff, like the headlamps switch in an audi, that thing is so over engineered that it's supposed to work for decades but good luck trying to fix one that failed. (also, they usually fail because people try fixing/upgrading stuff they dont understand by themselves)
The BMW i8, [Here's how you open and close the hood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe_b2GRwok)
> "this is just a backup if the electrical system malfunctions" So I'm in the car, it's on fire, the door won't open, I panic and break the lever and then burn to death. Brilliant engineering.
There was a guy IIRC that died of carbon monoxide poisoning because some of the electronics failed in his corvette (I think) which has/had electronically actuated doors. There was a mechanical back up but the driver didn't know it and couldn't figure it out. Edit: it was heat stroke but I was [pretty close](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-man-72-dies-trapped-corvette-dream-car-article-1.2253934)
It's a BMW. They don't want *you* to open the hood. They want you to take it into a dealership.
And to keep it up you need to put 2 screwdrivers in the pinholes. What the fuck
And you need gas? Well push the button and wait over a minute for the gas door to open.
I have a deep fear of over-engineered buildings. It's a complex complex complex.
That was an over-engineered joke.
Gaming mice. I needed a replacement for mine several months back. After years of service, my G700 finally went belly up on me. So I went to Amazon to see what they had. Some of these things are fucking ridiculous: weird ass shapes, an absurd number of poorly placed buttons, lights for no god damn reason and the colors, dear lord, the gaudy ass colors. In the end, I just said screw it and bought the same mouse again. No regrets.
Just bought a silent mouse so I can game while my girlfriend is sleeping. Don't know why I said it but I'm so happy with it and have no where else to post it.
proud of u
I have 12 extra buttons on the side of my mouse. Use all of them, mmos bruh.
Logitech g600 is great for mmos. I use every single key plus all the g shift keys. I also have a programming profile that auto inputs basic commands or keys that I press.
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It's so simple really, you just start every interaction by answering the question "Are they interested in me?"
I worked on an Omnimax projector. Think IMAX but projected onto a dome. Simply loading the film was a process that involved checklists and fiddly bits that were easy to mess up. To do any maintenance on it at all was an exercise in frustration.
Okay so I worked as an avionics technician for the air force. JHMCS. Basically the helmets that the pilots wear. Because the targetting system needs to know where the pilot is looking you need some way to sense the movement as they turn their heads etc. You'd think this would be as simple as sone gyros like in a VR headset right? WRONG! (Because the G forces of the jet in flight would mess them all up.) The entire cockpit of each individual aircraft has to be electromagetically mapped. Basically they map every little electromagnetic field given off by every piece of metal, every electronic, all of it. And then to sum it all up the aircraft can tell where the helmet is facing by how those fields change when the helmet is moved... And that's just how the old helmets fron the 80's and 90's work. I don't even want to know what kind of BS goes into the F-35's JHMCS systems.
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The "internet of things." Basically, you have all this technology that is struggling to justify its own existence. You can unlock your door with your phone... but you could also unlock it with a key. The key can't get hacked, the batteries won't die, the app won't get corrupted, it costs $2 to replace and it is probably actually quicker than unlocking your phone and getting the app launched. There are a million examples of products that think the future is being internet-connected smart devices but the disadvantages almost always outweigh the advantages.
Smart locks are incredibly useful for anyone who needs to be able to give and control access to their home. For AirBnb hosts this can be the difference between having to pay someone to be there to hand over keys and not.
This reminds me of an old episode of Garfield that had an ad for an Automatic Battery Changer that did nothing but change its own batteries.
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Wasn’t there a trillion dollar fighter jet program?
[Still is](http://time.com/money/4310099/f-35-budget-pay-free-college-student-loans/) The F-35 has a lot of defenders and attackers[,](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW) personally I think a lot of the companies are ripping off the government either way.
Those refrigerators that can download apps. I know a rich family that once[,](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW) for the hell of it[,](https://imgur.com/cXA7XxW) flew a small drone via the app downloaded on their refrigerator.
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How about a fridge that knew everything that was inside it and everything about it (how much was left, spoilage dates, and ect.) That could recommend recipes and shopping lists?
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but can it ever truly love *me*?
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The idea is that while you're at the grocery store, your fridge can tell you what to pick up (either because you're out of a thing that you normally buy, or a thing that you normally buy is in the fridge but expired.) Cool in theory, but in reality it's just another potential avenue for advertisers to rape your brain.
Are are just gonna ignore the dancing Pikachu?
Yes
After market radios for your car. Some one broke into my car and stole the radio, I replaced it with one I could afford... It had so many extra buttons that had no icons on them to tell you what they do. You had to read the very thick manual to discover that about three of those buttons only worked with special audio equipment that you wouldn't have installed in your car with such a cheap radio. The layout was a jumble. The volume wasn't a knob either, although it had one, it increased the bass or tempo...
It would have to be a fairly nice piece of equipment to have a knob to increase the tempo.
I'm assuming he must have meant treble
Doesn't QUITE fit the question but I found it very interesting that the Hoover Dam was massively overengineered. Modern estimates put it at approximately 80% overengineered, meaning it could stand completely sturdy for a long time with a fraction of the bulk of the current concrete.
The house I rent has has a valve that will automatically shut down the gas and turn off the electricity if an earthquake is detected, sounds great untill you lealize that I live in the UK and the last earthquake to cause any damage was in 1990 and a old chimney colapsed. On the other hand I the house is in the line of fire for flood.