Wireless input devices
When future archaeologists dig out our digital middens, they'll be able to guess what most things were for and why. But even the brightest will be stumped by the wireless mouse and keyboard. Expensive, clumsy and over-designed, their one excuse for existing is that they don't have cables. You know, the thing that delivers continuous, uninterrupted power and tethers the input device to the workspace.
Without it, they are free to get lost and gather dust until their batteries run out: these are good things? Add in the complexities of getting Bluetooth working properly or choosing free channels for proprietary interfaces and these things add layer after layer of misery in return for virtually nothing.
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Woo
12/06/2008 06:13 PM
Haha funny article, but sadly true. I loved the bit about the6 fingered mutants and them silly printers always trying to sell you ink!
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me
11/07/2008 12:06 PM
Re: AC adapters - also - those 4-point and 6-point pwer boards you buy (to change one power socket into more) never have enough space between them to fit two AC adapters side by side.
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callum
12/07/2008 10:06 PM
:) nice article, however I love my wireless mouse! lol at the 33in1 card reader, that is defiantly ridiculous
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pendragon74
05/08/2008 11:00 AM
The N-different power adapters is one that really kills me. I'm looking at a table full of different adapters for phones (mobile and landline), printers, routers, screens, laptops. All right already! We surrender! Just give us all a 5V 500 mA power supply, or auto-switching supply, that does everything.
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