zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agoWhat’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?message-squaremessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down11
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squareYaksDC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up26·7 months agoThe Cuecat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat Came at a time when there weren’t barcodes everywhere and QR codes didn’t exist yet. Companies had to publish Cuecat specific barcodes, it was much easier to just type in the URL by the time you figured out you could use it at all.
minus-squareAdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoThe man who holds the patent legally changed his name after it failed so he wouldn’t be associated with it.
minus-squarefriend_of_satan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoYou can cut one leg off an IC on the board and it becomes a regular barcode reader.
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 months agoIt also looks vaguely like a dildo, which is cool.
minus-squareDeconceptualist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoHa, I had one and it’s what first came to mind too. Pretty useless.
minus-squareouRKaoS@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI completely forgot these existed until you just mentioned it! I think I still have one somewhere in a box of “I might need this” along with a parallel port ZIP drive and a bunch of FireWire cables.
The Cuecat: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
Came at a time when there weren’t barcodes everywhere and QR codes didn’t exist yet. Companies had to publish Cuecat specific barcodes, it was much easier to just type in the URL by the time you figured out you could use it at all.
The man who holds the patent legally changed his name after it failed so he wouldn’t be associated with it.
You can cut one leg off an IC on the board and it becomes a regular barcode reader.
It also looks vaguely like a dildo, which is cool.
Ha, I had one and it’s what first came to mind too. Pretty useless.
I completely forgot these existed until you just mentioned it!
I think I still have one somewhere in a box of “I might need this” along with a parallel port ZIP drive and a bunch of FireWire cables.