The wireless remote control for my car radio.
It was just way more convenient to extend my arm and change tracks/stations/volume than to locate the teeny remote that really has no home.
It stayed in my glove box for the entire 5 years I owned the radio.
(I know, some people like to park, open their car doors, and play the radio while sitting outside their car but I never did.)
Most of the features on my cell phone. I have a Razr, and the only reason I have it is because it’s nice and flat and it looks cool. But I don’t text (can’t type fast enough on that little keypad) and I have no idea how to retrieve messages. I own thousands of dollars of high quality camera equipment from my years in newspapering, so I sure as heck don’t need my cell phone to take pictures. I just need my cell phone so I can call my wife from the supermarket and ask, “Now, where the hell is that horse radish you like?”
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The wireless remote control for my car radio.
It was just way more convenient to extend my arm and change tracks/stations/volume than to locate the teeny remote that really has no home.
It stayed in my glove box for the entire 5 years I owned the radio.
(I know, some people like to park, open their car doors, and play the radio while sitting outside their car but I never did.)
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Spoken like someone who’s never tried to fast forward back to the mid-point of an hour-long radio show because you originally just wanted to rewind it 30 seconds to hear what you just missed when the phone rang, then hit a bump and wound up skipping back to the beginning. Oy that’s frustrating. And tiring on my little fast-forward finger.
I use the open/close button on the DVD player when the disc just isn’t quite seated right - you can hit that and it will jostle it so you don’t get that “no disc” error.
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I was inspired to this thread by seeing the description of the Rolex Sea Dweller. It’s a diver’s watch guaranteed waterproof to FOUR THOUSAND FEET deep!
Of course, you the diver will be dead for the last 3500 feet or so of the descent, because humans can’t dive anywhere near that deep. Well, ok, in a submarine, maybe, but in a submarine you don’t need a waterproof watch at all, except in the shower.
I suppose it might be a comfort to your family that if someone manages to pull up your pulped jellied body from the bottom of the sea, your Rolex will still be going strong.
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As it was explained to me when I got a non-diving watch rated to 100M- that’s a static pressure rating, but if you are wearing a dive watch, the actual pressure on the watch is greater than your depth because you are moving it around. But even so, 4000 ft seems a tad excessive- most dive watches are rated to 200-400M.
From the OTC drugstore shelves:
Feminine hygiene products that do anything besides reduce yeast, fungus & mild bacterial levels. Yes, flowers have been used as fertility symbols since pre-history, but there’s no actual benefit to your smelling like one.
“Diet” pills that are essentially a cup of coffee and a Flintstone vitamin, with some bunk herbal additives. Your system will not say “Oh this will help me in new and exiting ways” but rather “Huh? Something to just turn into shit.”
Most every topically-applied product that is either camphor or menthol to exite your capillaries, with some other useless herbs mixed in.
And of course you know that model on the hair-care product container had her own hair sprayed-down with pure silicone, at a level of toxicity which prevents its inclusion in the bottle in hand
Those little blue LED lights on every appliance are pretty worthless.
Bonus points: they waste energy!
The twirling hourglass or taskbar indication that something is “happening” or being downloaded. Man, am I a sucker!
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I’ve wondered the same thing about the “eject” button on my DVD/VCR remote. What is the possible point? You STILL have to get up and change the movie, so it’s not as if it’s sparing you any effort.
OK, maybe it IS fun to push the button just as someone sits down after starting a movie so that they have to get back up and push it back in. But the fun only lasts until the moment that they grab the remote and beat you with it, so it hardly seems worth it! 
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That made me laugh, thanks.
Also don’t forget that if somene is walking around with a drink in their hand you can open the dvd drawer as a cup holder.
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Not to spoil your ding at the corporate mentality, but I read the ad and I didn’t get the impression that Rolex wanted you to take the watch that deep, but was simply advertising how very strong the watch is (e.g. If you dove to that depth, you would be crushed, but the watch would still work. That is how durable this sucker is)
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One would hope they don’t want you to dive to 4000’. OTOH, virtually all their watches are waterproof to 330’, and the Submariner is guaranteed to 1000’. But when 1000’ isn’t enough…
I can see the super-strength of the Rolex Sea Dweller being useful if you drop your watch overboard in an area where the ocean is 1000 metres deep. Just jump into your personal submarine and use your specimen collecting apparatus to pick it up - the watch is still working! A lesser watch would be broken by the time you found it.
[QUOTE=Lakai]
Space Pen.
I can see it being useful in -30 degree weather, but 250 degrees?
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Have you been to a Republican convention? That air gets hot.
You’d be surprised. When it comes to toast, my dad is a charcophile. He loves his toast dark enough to make stone rubbings with. On the other hand my wife likes hers with just the faintest blush of gold – light enough that you could scrape a few molecules off of either side and end up with bread again.
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
“Diet” pills that are essentially a cup of coffee and a Flintstone vitamin, with some bunk herbal additives. Your system will not say “Oh this will help me in new and exiting ways” but rather “Huh? Something to just turn into shit.”
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Add a little phenolphthalein and it can be both!
Pretty much a standard feature of all digital watches. How many people really need to know the time in more than one time zone? Or a countdown timer?
Granted, there are some, but what? Two or three out of every thousand?
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried]
I can see the super-strength of the Rolex Sea Dweller being useful if you drop your watch overboard in an area where the ocean is 1000 metres deep. Just jump into your personal submarine and use your specimen collecting apparatus to pick it up - the watch is still working! A lesser watch would be broken by the time you found it.
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Perhaps they are anticipating a market among whales, who might actually dive that deep.
OR, they are anticipating genetically engineered humans who really WILL be “sea dwellers”.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
OR, they are anticipating genetically engineered humans who really WILL be “sea dwellers”.
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No need for genetic engineering if this hypothesis is correct. Our descendents will merely be fulfilling their destiny - and will know the exact time while doing so.
[QUOTE=Projammer]
Pretty much a standard feature of all digital watches. How many people really need to know the time in more than one time zone? Or a countdown timer?
Granted, there are some, but what? Two or three out of every thousand?
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I use the second time zone to switch between Standard and Daylight Saving time.
My watch has a multiple countdown timer I use for interval workouts.
[QUOTE=Hampshire]
The wireless remote control for my car radio.
It was just way more convenient to extend my arm and change tracks/stations/volume than to locate the teeny remote that really has no home.
It stayed in my glove box for the entire 5 years I owned the radio.
(I know, some people like to park, open their car doors, and play the radio while sitting outside their car but I never did.)
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I use mine all the time because I can use the remote by feel and not take my eyes off the road.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
I was inspired to this thread by seeing the description of the Rolex Sea Dweller. It’s a diver’s watch guaranteed waterproof to FOUR THOUSAND FEET deep!
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I’ve had the same thought about watches in general, when the product description said the watch was waterresistant up untill so and so many meters. A watch to go a 100 meters deep? There isnt even any lake that deep in the Netherlands!
But, it turns out, these numbers are to be taken with a giant heap of salt. The Internet tells me that:
3 Atm./ 30 meter (“waterresistant”/“watersealed”): a watch you can wear while walking in the rain or while washing your hands, if little drops of water should land on your hands.
5 Atm./ 50 meter (“waterproof” ): a watch you can wear while showering or swim in the pool, but only if the water doesn’t differ too muchin temperature. You can’t dive with these.
10 Atm./ 100 meter (“waterproof” ): suitebale for most water sports. Not suitable for wearing while diving of a high diving board.
20 Atm./ 200 meter ( ook wel waterproof 20 atm. / divingproof ):
All kinds of water sport en diving.
So maybe the Rolex mentioned in the OP can be worn while cleaning the porch with a pressurised water spout, or something.
[QUOTE=Sunrazor]
Most of the features on my cell phone. I have a Razr, and the only reason I have it is because it’s nice and flat and it looks cool. But I don’t text (can’t type fast enough on that little keypad) and I have no idea how to retrieve messages. I own thousands of dollars of high quality camera equipment from my years in newspapering, so I sure as heck don’t need my cell phone to take pictures. I just need my cell phone so I can call my wife from the supermarket and ask, “Now, where the hell is that horse radish you like?”
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Just because you don’t use them doesn’t mean that they have no use. Very few people have thousands of dollars worth of camera equipment like you do; for a lot of people, their phone is their only camera. Hell, even if you do have all that equipment, a phone is a lot more portable.
Very little energy, though. And looking cool is a real use! 