Headlines - Survey says: millions of Brits baffled by gadgets

[HEXUS]

A poll of 2,000 Brits has revealed that millions of consumers don't understand gadgets, and many of us will end up throwing them across the room.

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[Crazytom]

Well I for one have never thrown a gadget across a room in frustration, and to be honest I don't understand how people cant use something like a DVD player, a gadget I feel is one of the simplest to use. DVD in, select what you want with the big arrow/select buttons and watch. Couldn't be much easier.
What frustrates me more are incompetent users who cant be bothered to read the manual.
I'd still like a future in which gadgets can be controlled telepathically though...

[Saracen]

I'll plead guilty to not knowing much about mobile phone features ..... because I don't want to know. If I can get it to make calls, receive calls, store and retrieve numbers from memory, that's about all I want. Anything else is surplus to requirements.

As for the rest, they just require a bit of practice, and maybe a bit of RTM'ing when new. But throw one across the room? Not hardly.

[Kingsimmy]

Originally Posted by Crazytom

Well I for one have never thrown a gadget across a room in frustration, and to be honest I don't understand how people cant use something like a DVD player, a gadget I feel is one of the simplest to use. DVD in, select what you want with the big arrow/select buttons and watch. Couldn't be much easier.
What frustrates me more are incompetent users who cant be bothered to read the manual.
I'd still like a future in which gadgets can be controlled telepathically though...

i agree, gadgets are designed to be used, so people should just read the manual and work it out.
what's the worst that could happen?
lol