Crap GadgetsWe wanted a monkey butler and bought one off eBay. Imagine our surprise when we found it was just an ordinary monkey with rabies. Worse: It had no butler training at all. Tell us about your duff technology purchases.
Thanks to Moonbadger for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 12:51)
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Casio Cassiopiea A20EIs it a calculator? Is it a laptop? Is it a £250 piece of portable junk with the battery life of Jordan's vibrator?
In theory, it was a good idea. At the time, even a crappy Pentium 133 laptop was the wrong side of a grand. With Windows CE 2 installed, including Pocket Word and Pocket Excel, the Cassiopiea was sturdily constructed and had a proper QWERTY keyboard. There was even a CF slot to expand the 8MB of memory.
But in practice, it was shit. It was slow, clunky, difficult to type on and the screen was only readable with the backlight on - which reduced the battery life to mere minutes.
In a vain attempt to make it usable I bought the rechargeable battery pack, and in doing so threw good money after bad.
I've learned my lesson now - though there is this £80 Android tablet in my office...
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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Thu 29 Sep 2011, 20:42,
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