What device or gadget should be dis-invented? And why?

[Davidc]

I'm nominating the private car.

Why? Life's too short to type out all the reasons.

 

[johnnyh]

the internet...

cause it produces threads like this in forums that we then waste our lives on...

 

[swee'pea99]

Plastic tyre levers. Because they're useless and they break and those metal ones you used to get for two and six at Woolworths were way better.

 

[Sittingduck]

Pizza Oven!

 

[swee'pea99]

That computer game where people play virtual sports with remote hand-held thingies.

I mean, if you want to play tennis go outside and play it. Why pretend? And pay hundreds of pounds to do so.

The one that gets me is the numpties who drive to the gym so they can go on a static cycling or running machine. Why not just cycle or run to the gym and then home again and save yourself the vast membership fees?

 

[Melvil]

Mobile phones.

They've transformed travelling on the train or bus into a non-stop exposition of someone's pathetically boring life and immediate plans for the future.

 

[Amanda P]

Television.

Millions of people now have absolutely nothing to talk about except soap operas.

 

[zimzum42]

not really a gadget, but email lists, stupid things enable people to send their inane crap to everyone in the office or everyone in their address book. nightmare

 

[User482]

Facebook. A pointless exercise in tragic narcissism.

 

[tyred]

Reality TV shows

 

[red_tom]

The landmine.

 

[Haitch]

Original Sin

 

[Davidc]

The landmine.

Totally agree but..

Should have excluded all things military or the server the forum lives on might fill up!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Totally agree but..

Should have excluded all things military or the server the forum lives on might fill up!

that would count the atom bomb out then…

 

[oscarplu]

ELECTRIC CANDLES!!!!!!!!!