Is This The World’s Most Pointless Gadget?

by Dean Evans at Tuesday 24th February, 2009 at 9:42 am [0 comments]

For every iPhone 3G and robotic vacuum cleaner there’s a battery-operated fork or a foot spa.

So The Landfill Prize was created to celebrate the world’s most useless gadgetry.

The list for 2009 includes oddities such as the ‘Plane Sheet‘, a personal airline seat cover for use on aircraft; and a Digital Electronic Jumping Rope.

Rubbish gadgets

The winner? Beating off the challenge of The Motorised Fork and the USB Chameleon (which doesn’t even change colour), is the must-junk Motorised Ice Cream Cone.

This superfluous gadget uses two AA batteries to rotate a plastic ice cream cone so you don’t have to turn it yourself.

But The Landfill Prize doesn’t just take aim at pointless technology. Best-selling products such as Guitar Hero and Nintendo’s Wii Fit also appear in this year’s loathesome top 10.

“I don’t need to pay an extortionate amount of money to get fit,” says the nomination for Wii Fit. “I can do it for free by stepping outside the front door and going for a walk.”

Last year’s Landfill Prize list also included some big names, such as the Slingbox and the Pyramat gaming chair. The 2008 winner was the Philips Sonicare electric toothbrush, after a survey by Which? discovered that the £179 gadget performed about as well as a £4 brush.

All of which begs the question: what’s the most pointless gadget you own?

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