The Dumbest Stuff We Found At CES 2017

[Megalith]

Another CES has come and gone, and sites are compiling their list of what was great, and what wasn’t so great. Most of this “bad tech” is merely unnecessary; others are genuinely stupid.

The Moore USB Drive claims to be able to offer unlimited data storage anytime, anywhere — even when there's no internet connection available. …it automatically knows what data you need on the device at all times and makes sure it's available locally. Let me kick you a scenario: The flash drive is 32GB and you've uploaded 3,200GB of data. You get on an airplane and you're looking for a movie you edited from a couple years ago — the ingenious AI will have the movie ready for you! You don't need internet access and you don't need to sync. BWAHA! Nope. I'm thinking this company thinks we're dumb.

 

[B00nie]

It employs the Chinese 50Mb USB storage loop system for infinite storage. You never run out, it just starts over.

 

[tec1500]

It employs the Chinese 50Mb USB storage loop system for infinite storage. You never run out, it just starts over.

I'd better buy two! Then I'll have 2x infinite storage!!!

 

[Monkey34]

I don't know......the Essential Vibrating Jeans might have a market if they vibrate in the right places.

 

[raz-0]

whoo boy, I don't see their caching algorithm living up to their claims.

 

[Spidey329]

AI has become the defacto buzzword for 2016/2017 for anything and everything automated.

I'm guessing they probably deploy a watcher app that flags how often certain files are accessed and then "caches" them accordingly.

 

[Tweak42]

The shower control panel looked semi useful if you were building a smart home, except for the wifi connection and $1200 price tag.

 

[Draax]

"French hacker house" How fancy, its like they don't even need my money.

 

[Kalabalana]

So basically "You'll have access to unlimited data so long as you limit your data! "
Very clever.

 

[Shotglass01]

I'm in for the Chin Poon buzzing pants. Where can I buy a pair?

 

[CaptNumbNutz]

The Tinder VR headset was a confirmed troll attempt by Tinder. Pretty damn funny though.

 

[TheBuzzer]

I thought something like this was done before?

 

[illram]

Some dumbass tried to sell me pay by the hour game streaming, can you believe it?

 

[MOS8580]

Woo, look at that l33t hacker code of... HTML?

 

[Insula Gilliganis]

These were stupid..

 

[[Spectre]]

I thought something like this was done before?

Yep, every year