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Time named Bob and Clippy as two of "The 50 Worst Inventions", calling the former an "expensive and overly cutesy" piece of software that was "designed around Clippy". [8] PC World ranked the product No. 7 on its list of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" [7] and Complex No. 27 on its list of "The 50 Worst Fails In Tech History". [3]
[158] In a later piece, Time also named the Aztek one of the 50 worst inventions of all time. [159] The Los Angeles Times named the Aztek the "Worst Car Ever Sold in America". [29] The book Sixty To Zero by Alex Taylor III, which details the fall of General Motors, prominently features an Aztek on the cover.
Spurious invention Description Angel Light: According to its inventor, this device could make walls, hands, and stealth shielding transparent. Black box: Popular name for a diagnostic machine made by Albert Abrams. It supposedly could diagnose diseases based on their special vibrations that can be sensed along someone's spine. [1]: 37 Chronovisor
Microsoft Bob was listed seventh in PC World magazine's list of the 25 worst tech products of all time [16] and as the number-one worst product of the decade by CNET.com. [17] It was also listed among the 50 worst inventions in Time magazine, which called Bob "overly cutesy" and an "operating system designed around Clippy."
In December 2009, the popular gadget blog Gizmodo voted the CueCat the #1 worst invention of the decade of the "2000s". In 2010, Time magazine included it on a list of "The 50 worst Inventions", [ 27 ] adding that people didn't accept "the idea of reading their magazines next to a wired cat-shaped scanner".
Obsolete technology Replacement Still used for Bathing machine: No longer required due to changing social standards of morality Hourglass: Clock: Tasks where a fixed amount of time can be measured with a low-tech solution: Exposure time tracker in saunas (where electronics might be damaged by the heat or ultraviolet light); retro kitchen timers, board games, other short-term timers.
TIME Magazine has released its list of "50 Worst Inventions" and somehow FarmVille has made the list of one of the fifty! The list of fifty worst inventions is compiled of "the world's bright ...
This is a list of lost inventions - technologies whose original capabilities cannot be recreated in the same form anymore. It does not include theoretical inventions. It does not include theoretical inventions.