Gadgets that you've totaly wasted your money on.

[TheAnimus]

As per the title, what gadgets have you bought in the last 18 months or so, that where a total complete and utter waste of money. You might still like the gadget, or you might not, but either way its not getting the use it should for the price, or does little that the previous one did.

So too start

Samsung Q1 Ultra - £700 A great peice of kit, just CPU bottlenecked to hell. Bought one the moment i could find one in the UK, have barely had it on for 70 hours. As it stands i only use it when i'm going on long (2hour +) journies. If on the CPU was better, or i needed one.

[jackvdbuk]

my powerball, i used it like 3 times and havent used it since

does upgrading my pc every year count too?

[Salazaar]

My bike actually, I bought it to replace one that got damaged in an accident but since I changed jobs I've barely used at all

[CMC]

My UV light.... what a waste of money...

[Lucio]

Gotta be the little Nanocopter I got at Christmas, the damn thing just will not hover or fly in any sort of a controlled fashion

[Parm]

Gotta be my two ForceFX light sabres. They're super cool but I've yet to run into any Sith lords to make them really worth using.

[Steve B]

I bought a PSP the week they came out, then barely touched it for months. That was an impulse buy. Sold it eventually though!

[Funkstar]

Might be more than 18 months, but i bought a Qnap TS-101 for running SlimServer. Too inflexible and slow. Still useful though so I might make use of it yet, or fine another home for it.

My media PC. Should hvae built a C2D box as opoosed to AM2 and should have gone with PCIe instead of PCI and AGP. Can't get it reliable, I suspect the Hauppauge Nova-T 500 is to blame (either that or conflicting USB drivers).

Bought a SlimDevices SliMP3 and a SqueeseBox 2 form a couple of guys, they are in a cupboard. Bought them because i can't help collecting things. Will use them eventually though

[dangel]

Originally Posted by Parm

Gotta be my two ForceFX light sabres. They're super cool but I've yet to run into any Sith lords to make them really worth using.

I tell myself they make good torches in case of a power cut.

[Lee @ SCAN]

Where do you want me to start...

Panasonic 3DO
Atari Jaguar
Nova T 500 MCE - need an antenna installing in my room now I've moved it
2 x 500Gb hard-drives - need a spare 30 mins to shut PC down, install drives and format.
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro - As above - need a scheduled down time.
Strobe lights in the PC
Funky colour CCFL changing Fans and even a fan that displays temps.

[SiM]

Lol... this is where I shine...

tablet pc - don't use it, sits here doing nothing - £1200
2 PSPs, 1 black and 1 white - don't use it, sits here doing nothing - £300
Heart rate monitor - don't use it often - £80
50" plasma tv - gets used a lot but was bought years ago when they were too expensive - £5000
super.fi 5 pro iem - use these a lot and love them, but I shouldn't spend money like this - £130
*Will add to list when I think of more...

I like my powerball actually, but only use it about once a month, usually when a visitor asks what it is...

[0iD]

X-Fi Platinum - Fatal1ty Champion Series card, still can't get it to work flawlessly in my rig. Going on fleabay shortly.

My powerball's showing signs of wear from overuse.

[Parm]

Add Nintendo Wii to my list too, I bought it just cause it happened to be in stock. Sold it shortly after due to minimal usage. Back then it was an impulse buy, now it seems like an impulse sell as there are actually games I want to play on it now.

I've got a Powerball too, I've hardly used it but then, I don't know how either. What the devil do you do with it?

[kasavien]

Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN

Strobe lights in the PC

That's amazing shame there would be no way of synchronizing it with flash bangs when you play counter strike

For me it's my surround sound speakers, i use them occasionally but they have an annoying background hum when switched on which puts me off using them, it may be the power supply creating electrical noise but i'm not sure.

OT: dammit i'm typing coursework at the moment and i can't help hitting ctrl+s whenever i type something, even though it doesn't work in firefox

[SiM]

Originally Posted by Parm

Add Nintendo Wii to my list too, I bought it just cause it happened to be in stock. Sold it shortly after due to minimal usage. Back then it was an impulse buy, now it seems like an impulse sell as there are actually games I want to play on it now.

I like my Wii even though it was an impulse buy... I would have preferred ps3 or xbox360, but I'll probably get one of those anyway...

Originally Posted by Parm

I've got a Powerball too, I've hardly used it but then, I don't know how either. What the devil do you do with it?

Start it (with string), hold it, rotate wrist, spin faster... My best score is 11000

[Prime]

same as a few of you, i bought a Force FX light Sabre. thats probly the most wasted on gadgets in the last 18 months but in total time (before i had bills to pay) i bought EVERy piece of 'Blade' merchindise i could get my hands on: Official replica weapons, concept art, autographs, on set props - the list goes on, i couldnt stop, must have spent about 2k on items from blade :S
still got em though