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

[alecstilleyedye]

religious extremism (all faiths)

 

[HLaB]

Hands Free Kits, it totally freaks me out when somebody facing your direction starts talking away suddenly and it only a few moments later that I twig
edit or the ones that come up to you shoulder and shout Hello and when you turn round you see they're on the phone.

 

[stoatsngroats]

Left-handed scissors.....

 

[HLaB]

Left-handed scissors.....

Are you left handed?

 

[stoatsngroats]

Are you left handed?

No.

Statistically speaking, only about 11% of the worlds population are left-handed, therefore a vast expense in manufacture, transportation, wholesale and retail sectors, is spent dealing with these tools-of-the-devil.......




















(Please, don't believe the statistics.... )

 

[Night Train]

The fossil fuel powered engine.

I often ponder how the industrial revolution would have turned out if other means of powering it were used.

 

[stoatsngroats]

In a serious response to the OP, I'd change mine to 'Newspapers' - they've had their day now, I think.....we can do without the environmental cost of them, and we can all get our up-to-the-minute news via /mobile phone/email/blog/Radio/TV.......scrap the lot of 'em....who wants yesterday's news these days.......

 

[Sittingduck]

What am I going to use to stuff in my wet shoes when I have commuted in a down-pour during the winter?

I vote - KEEP NEWSPAPERS!

 

[stoatsngroats]

I vote - KEEP NEWSPAPERS!

( Psssst........Drop your support to 'Keep Newspapers', and I'll buy you these.....

http://www.totalcycling.com/index.php/product/apparel_shoes/overshoes/OS_PRO_NEOPRENE.html

call it ..erm.....'Parliamentary Privilege' )

 

[Sittingduck]

No Dice!

 

[montage]

Gordon Brown

 

[Davidc]

Gordon Brown

Not fit for purpose -- send him back under the Sale of Goods Act and ask for a refund.

 

[Joe24]

Gears

 

[stoatsngroats]

No Dice!

OK...my last offer....

Image Here...!

 

[montage]

Not fit for purpose -- send him back under the Sale of Goods Act and ask for a refund.

A possibility, I would have purchased a different model, but I didn't get a choice in the matter. Even the wrapping is ugly.