sorry I disagree with this one , I bought a couple and the money its saved on wasted coffee and I already had bottled water but the 2.0 is soo improved over the first models
I once bought a battery-operated toenail clipper. I’d have to use it on a nail for about 3 hours to get the nail worn down to the right length. I’d do better with a rotary sander.
I don’t know about worthless but the microwave never lived up to its hyped protentional ….
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You’re not using it right.
well I remember when it was supposed to cook a whole turkey in 3 hours cakes from scratch im mere minutes …and totally get rid of the oven……… didn’t happen
I think just recently they have cake mixes that actually work for them…
The best use of a microwave is to reheat cold stuff quickly. Its a perfect compliment to a world with ubiqutious refridgeration.
Its better at that than anything else.
Its worse than a conventional oven for cooking. Significantly. There is a reason that microwave dinners are i) awful tasting and ii) made differently from other stuff.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t live somewhere where QR mobile payments are a thing. Iuse them on a near-daily basis. It’s how I pay at the convenience store, or at the farmer’s market, or for the pizza i had on Monday.
I’ve certainly never seen them. We use PayWave. I think phones with chips can do it too.
As I say, I live in China and I scan around 10 QR codes per day.
It really has displaced money; most vending machines are qr code based, there are services like rental bikes that you can only use that way, and even chains of stores that don’t have tills: you just scan the qr codes of all the items you want and leave.
For the last of these, the government finally insisted that these stores should provide some mechanism to pay by cash. So, in the unlikely event someone tries to do that, there is a shop assistant who will accept your cash but actually buy the goods using his smart phone and scanning the qr codes.
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Another place where I use QR codes regularly - when I rent a movie on my satellite TV service, I either have the option of manually typing in a numeric code and send it to an SMS number, or I can just scan a QR code in that does it all for me with one click.
8-track tapes.
Back in the 70’s, a lot of people bought them.
I dunno why, but I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
But nobody ever bought a second one.
I have seen street vendors use it.
Not as widespread as China, but a regular thing now.
It appears we’ve moved on from kitchen gadgets, but I still must mention the Salad Shooter that my MIL gave me one Christmas. It was definitely quicker to slice veggies than to assemble that silly thing, load the veggies, run them thru, then clean it up after, not to mention the hunks that would jam the blades. I tried to like it, but ugh!
I vote for the Opti-Grab!
Wow, are you some kind of Neo-Luddite? :eek:
QR codes are everywhere and used in almost every industry. Proof? It’s 8:30 am, I’ve already used the QR on my coffee card to get a free one, I logged in to an online app with one, and right now I’m submitting work orders for tools and equipment that are inventoried by…any guesses?.. QR codes!
Also, you should really read up on Nikola Tesla, I don’t think you really know who he is.
They didn’t really catch on in the USA to the extent that they did elsewhere. They’re still around, but it would be easy for someone here to think they had been a big flop.
DIVX clearly looked like a good idea to Circuit City. It always looked like a real kludge to me.
Interesting… I know they haven’t replaced UPC but they are usually beside them for advertising and marketing purposes. Unfortunately, up until fairly recently, you needed to install a 3rd party QR reader app which probably causes many users to ignore them.
A friend of mine owns a bar/restaurant. He sells a ton of fries. He has a wall mounted vegomatic type tool that works really well (though it’s pricey).
Kodak instant photos. Kodak intended to compete with Polaroid but the process was patented, Polaroid proved that their rights were violated, and in a bold move took advantage of their right to have the Kodak product shut down completely.
Polaroid, Kodak, and others attempted any number of ways to allow people to make home movies on film and distribution of film content for home use more practical, all failing because videotape killed was much simpler and more practical.