The advances in technology over the last few decades have been so rapid it’s hard to even keep track. That’s how we end up with fails like these.
Dr. Ian Malcolm said it best:
In any event, one of our favorite new Twitter accounts, @internetofshit, curates the most pointless gadgets being “invented” today.
Enjoy some of the best:
1.
Why use glass doors to see what’s inside a freezer when you can use a door sized screens to display pictures of what’s inside the freezer? 🙃 pic.twitter.com/WuL8uHGKRZ
— Helen Leigh⚡ (@helenleigh) December 4, 2019
2.
I promise I am not making this up. I have just been asked to upgrade the firmware for my new toilet. pic.twitter.com/GqDmCk3AUz
— Rory Sutherland (@rorysutherland) November 30, 2019
3.
Getting DDoS’d by my cats – whose dumb idea was this cat flap? pic.twitter.com/bRDWyJYr1o
— Norm Driskell (@n0rm) September 6, 2019
4.
My dad showed me how his Keurig has what is basically DRM and I immediately thought of @internetofshit. He circumvents it by literarily taking a used lid and placing it over the imposter. pic.twitter.com/nm8WWJqgEF
— ⓜⓞⓤⓢⓔ (@Mister32) November 28, 2019
5.
A Japanese start-up has invented the ‘smart plank’. (Credit @mui_labo) pic.twitter.com/y0nx9DoNLZ
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) November 28, 2019
6.
When you really want a cold drink but first need to debug a Security Certificate of your Samsung fridge. @internetofshit pic.twitter.com/o2ymgpeO3q
— Monique Farantzos (@farantzos) December 5, 2019
7.
Just opted out of a McDonald’s ad on a TV I paid over a thousand dollars for. @internetofshit pic.twitter.com/q2STy45rYI
— Wes Bos (@wesbos) November 24, 2019
8.
Just a collection of totally normal things. pic.twitter.com/QLKflS8UVt
— Ryan McLeod (@warpling) October 25, 2019
9.
when you have to stomp out the face in the snow so your surveillance camera stops texting you @internetofshit pic.twitter.com/hW2vJmXGhD
— Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) February 25, 2019
10.
This self-driving garbage can remembers to take the trash to the curb for you https://t.co/b3zzROcSfT pic.twitter.com/zrnL0WQCDh
— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) September 30, 2019