Gallery of awful tech garbage at CES

Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/06/gallery-of-awful-tech-garbage.html

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I do want the robotic laser equipped mosquito killer.

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So is this why you haven’t opened the safe yet?

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But will that underwear save me from the coming nuclear apocalypse?

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This one looks both fun and practical.

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Also, multi lane lidar.

Priorities, yo.

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The award goes to “fuel up anytime, anywhere”

Jesus Christ!

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I don’t care anymore. Biometric drone. Whatever. Sure

Its a biomimetic drone. I looked it up. Its just a remeote controlled airplane which moves and (sort of) looks like a bird. But you can’t eat it.

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you have to start somewhere…

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Apparently if you buy this hat your tits become solar concentrators.

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All I wanted was a GTX 1080 ti. Was that too much to ask?

Apparently so.

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Wasted real estate. They need to make a solar cell bikini top, too.

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It could be solar and kinetic.

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Cant let those Baywatch-style running sequences go to waste. And just think of all the motorboating.

Also, one of my favorites:

Smart...grill cleaner. #CES2017 pic.twitter.com/iufFAzXlpX

— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) January 7, 2017
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I think that laser tank being called shit is why Trump won.

Good lord, there is even a grill cleaning roomba? It’s like you guys don’t buy steak at Sharper Image.

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I see that they didn’t make fun of the one thing that I saw where I said "I’d buy that” (which prompted an atomic eye roll from the wife) – the Battery Belt. A leather belt with a bank of embedded batteries.
When the wife queried “why would you want that ugly thing”, I uttered “I’m Batman” – it took several minutes before her eyes finally returned front and center.
(Sorry, no pic)

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A wise man (George Carlin) once said, “Nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, and some schmuck will buy it.”

Edit: with ==> will.

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I got a pair of these for Christmas and they are great.

I mostly listen to podcasts and it works well. If you are a true audiophile with your music, then you need something different.

https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/817525322358763520

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The idea goes back decades. Anyone else remember the Bone Fone in the late 1970s?

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