It warms our hearts to see so much time, technical skill and effort put into something whose only function is to shut itself off.
Sometimes people are so focused on getting the job done that they fail to realize if they've done a job so wonky that it renders their own work confusing, laughable and useless. These design fails were someone's one job and frankly we're glad they did it bad so we could watch. These design failures need some help.
Someone on AskReddit asked for people to describe the most useless inventions that they've ever seen. I mean, when it comes to the "pet rock" maybe it's "uselessness" was the best part about it. A lot of us just have those dumb things that we find ourselves taken with, and need to own, for no reason at all.
Who sells these? Like, we would be completely surprised if any of these worked at all. At the same time, we mostly feel bad for all the models who got roped into this venture. You can see the bewilderment and disappointment in their eyes. But hey, there are worse gigs out there. For more terrible products that are otherwise useless or misleading, here are 25 awful products designed by monsters
Normally fun-facts will try to sell themselves as something you 'totally need to know'. Well, we'll be honest. These aren't those kind of facts. These facts are completely non-essential to your well-being and everyday life. But read them anyway, because they're actually really interesting.