Okay, I know I’m not on the cutting edge of technology. I don’t shop and thus am rarely in stores.
But this just bowled me over.
What else is out there that I need to put in the know about?
Ha! We actually bought one of those. For sweetie’s 84 year old dad, who we were trying to get used to using a cell phone. Unfortunately, it didn’t play nice with his phone and caused weird echoes for the person on the other end.
After two months, we’ve given up; we’re going back to the landline next week. Man’s a retired civil engineer but somehow couldn’t master the seriously bare-bones phone, and had to keep asking how to answer and hang up. And listening to his voicemail? Fuggetaboutit.
As for inventions that make me go “whut” there’s this one. C’mon. Hammer. Nail. Not that difficult. If you do it halfway competently it holds way more than this thing does.
Your father-in-law. Uh. . . well. . . mmmm. . . just ignore the idiot part of the post (looks down, shuffles feet in an embarrassed manner while searching frantically for a way to change the subject).
At least the insta-hang, according to the blurb, will save you time and money. That $.42 and 35 seconds per year will really start to add up in a couple of centuries.
Yabbut you’re talking about commercials which depict people who can’t fold a t-shirt without sustaining life threatening injuries.
I want one. Just 'cause. And 'cause I hate the Bluetooth thingy and speakerphone is the Devil’s own tool, but I often need both hands free to flip through a file while on the phone.
Here’s my nomination (surprise, it’s also from As Seen on TV): http://www.asseenontv.com/smore-to-love-smore-maker/detail.php?p=360246&v=kitchen_knives-and-gadgets Seriously? We’re rebranding fish baskets as “S’Mores Makers” now? And entirely ruining the S’Mores in the process.
Any girl scout knows the key to a S’Mores is a perfectly (to be defined by the end user) browned and carmelized marshmallow, which this contraption makes impossible, and just the right ratio of solid to melted chocolate and the temperature variance between the cool graham cracker and oozy melty innards. This thing makes the worst S’Mores ever, but at least it makes lots of them at once and in an oven, so the kids needn’t bother with the boring sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows part of S’Mores making…oh, wait, that’s the FUN part, isn’t it?
This gadget actively offends me. 
I’m with you, whynot! That thing is a blight upon humanity! No roasty marshmallow, no sticks to poke your fellow s’mores makers with, NO FUN!
I think the OP’s product isn’t such a bad idea. I don’t own one, but it would be a hell of a lot more comfortable to use for a long period of time than a regular smartphone.
“Hey! You’re the guy who can’t open milk!” 
My friend’s idiot husband wants this board game for idiots: Cashflow 101. It’s a copycat of Monopoly, but playing it is supposed to educate you in the mysterious ways of finance so you too can become a bazillionaire.
(I suspect the inventor’s actual method of becoming rich, to wit: churn out immensely overpriced finance products for people with more money than sense, will probably not work for people further down the pyramid.)
According to the Technical Details:
-Eliminates up to 99 percentage of the radiation absorbed compared to a direct use of mobile phones
That might be a major selling point to many buyers???
Stupid buyers, perhaps.
Neat.
Now, if I could just find a hand-free headset that actually works. Is there some secret to finding one?
I am now on my second hand-free headset. It connects to both my cell phone and my land-line phone. I can hear just fine with it – but people I talk to say they can barely hear me. Both of my sets have produced this complaint.
What does it take to find a headset that works better than this? Other than, you know, just buying one after another after another after another until I stumble upon a good one?
Hey! Quit trying to short-circuit the Consumer Imperative! You want our entire society to crumble?
As I was walking out of work one day, I saw someone walking in using one. My thought was, "you spent extra money to use something to hold up to your ear that is actually *bigger *than the phone itself & don’t even get the benefit of hands-free. :smack: "
I saw that a while ago on think geek, and immediately wanted one. Sometimes I want both my hands free when I talk. Also, my android phone is so boxy and I have small hands, so it’s difficult to hold. It’s easy to cradle something like that in your neck while you work, but if the sound quality is bad I guess I will pass.
Ooh! I think it would be fun to have something like that. Just for the silliness and novelty of it. I love the pic of the woman with the cell phone in the pocket of her coat and talking on the handset.
Is that a vintage circa 1965 rotary phone receiver in your pants or are you glad to see me.
:dubious:
Are we being whooshed? How is holding a handset to one’s ear more comfortable than holding a regular smartphone to one’s ear?
My brother has a similar pic from his college days (early '80’s) in which he secured a landline handset to his head with a liberal quantity of masking tape. Inelegant, but effective.