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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USB Missile launcherIn the office war stakes, I found a trebuchet or onager to be most effective. Certainly more effective than a bloody missile launcher hooked to a USB port.
A missile launcher that drew too much current from the USB port.
The USB port on the motherboard, which fried the USB controller.
The concept is nice, but the execution was shoddy as a shoddy thing, wrapped in a blanket made of shoddy. It worked for half a dozen firings before the disappointed owner fired the missiles by hand using an elastic band. Actually, that was quite effective. Far more so than the pile of coelacanth droppings of a launcher.
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moonbadger Doesn't judge a fish by its ability to climb trees, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 20:50,
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"wrapped in a blanket made of shoddy"Very Blackadder
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.Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 3 Oct 2011, 21:55,
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hatwo of the tekky guys at my place of work got them too. Not only was the firing distance terrible but one of them made too much noise when aiming it over the PC. The missles were confiscated by HR after one of the tekkies added a few metal wires (broken down paperclip) and the blades from pencil sharpeners to the tip.
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