5 Useless Gadgets You Should Throw in the Trash Right Now

November 04, 2008

Your house is full of crap, and you know it. Along with that old suit you’ll “fit into again one day” and the cupboard full of juicers and lemon squeezers, it’s likely you have a lot of computer hardware you’ll never use again. That’s normal though, right? Everyone has a collection of USB card readers, cables and battery chargers in the bottom drawer, after all.

But I’m talking about big, modern gadgets you may even have just bought. Things that you think you need, but were clearly a waste of your money. Here’s a list of five things that are useless, and which you should send to the thrift store right now.

First, an anti hate-mail caveat: Some of this kit is still useful in a professional context. If you use this stuff every day, you know who you are — please don’t write in. But for the rest of us, these hunks of plastic are just taking up space and electricity.

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Tesla Roadster Crashes at 100mph

November 04, 2008

During a demonstration run of a Tesla Roadster in Southern France, the driver (who was demoing it for the passenger) attempted to take a wet corner a bit too fast and ended up going off the road, smashing the front left and rear right quarters of the car. The passenger was thrown clear, luckily not through the windshield, but miraculously neither party was seriously injured.