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Modern technology, while useful, has been somewhat of a disappointment to those of us of a certain generation. I mean, it's nice to have access to the sum of human knowledge at my fingertips - as well as order a pizza or a ride whenever I need it - but where is my hoverboard? My flying car?

And while technology can be harnessed to solve the world's most pressing and complex issues - clean energy, mitigating poverty and inequality, curing diseases; just to name a few - we seem to spend an awful lot of time on trying to make the smart technologies even more convenient for ourselves. Who cares if the planet is burning up outside if our home appliances can automatically adjust the temperature inside, using an app that cleverly measures our body temperature thus avoiding the need to laboriously stand up an walk over to the thermostat? Such are the modern times!

The Twitter account Internet of Sh*t recognizes our obsession with frivolous, useless and downright invasive new technologies and there's nothing better than to poke fun at it. Because nobody really wants a world where Facebook controls our money and reads our minds with brain-machine interfaces, do we? Perhaps we could focus a little more on say - an alternative to plastics and fossil fuels - and less on building a hyper-convenient, dystopian world of mind control, data harvesting and artificially intelligent fridges?

Scroll down to check out some of the public shaming from Internet of Sh*t for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments below!

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Magpie
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6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the nice things about law breakers is they are usually quite stupid.

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    Tor Rolf Strøm
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course you can't wear it if it's a bug in it!

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    HANS
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    New code must be eight characters long and contain at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, one number, and one special character.

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    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish things were made like they used too. So much waste because of corporate greed. Fridges lasted 20+ years, cars lasted just as long if not longer. Now things last half that time if that. We have become such a throwaway and wasteful society.

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    Foxxy
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can think of a few people that needs this, for some reason their voice volume whilst on the phone increases.

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    Foxxy
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Internet Technology has its place but not on a blender or half these things.

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    wandile dludlu
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a single word was read by me and millions out there

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    Demi Zwaan
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just got a Google Home and if this tap is anywhere near as good as that, I'll be wasting 100s of liters of waters every time I want to fill a pan.

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    wandile dludlu
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The hackers were fishing around. . . I'll show myself out

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    John Greene
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a box bolted to the ground with a padlock. I leave a note for the delivery person, "Please place in box and close padlock. Thank you." It used to be chained to the post on my patio, and the railing of the walkway before that at each place I've lived. Exactly ZERO packages stolen in 20 years.

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    Magpie
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Monitor the aisles for what exactly?

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    Elizabeth
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you don't want Alexa recording you - ok. But are you aware your cell phone, and tablet do the same thing? Are you aware your computer probably does too?

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    Kaisu
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apple products are just s**t in general

    DP von Icecream
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    6 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You forgot to mention: heavily overpriced s**t ;-)

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    Rabbit Carrot
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My wireless mouse works fine on my MacBook. No extra add ons or plug ins needed.

    Allie G.
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I have a wireless mouse with a USB receiver and don't have this problem with my Mac, either. I haven't needed any of these adaptors. I guess mine IS two years old though, who knows what hardware changes have been made. I wouldn't mind a second HDMI port on mine though...

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    John Greene
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine is Bluetooth, zero wires.

    Dave van Es
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only good Apple product is the fruit

    A B C
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The absurd thing about this is that people still buy that c**p without complaint.

    Leodavinci
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep... non-bluetooth mice are absolute junk.

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    wandile dludlu
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    aren't there mice that don't have the dongle and connect directly using bluetooth

    Marcellus the Third
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look up Bluetooth, it's a thing. What next, you're going to complain you can't find a lightning-to-PS2 converter to use you 10y old wired keyboard?

    Cat
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Got given an iPhone for work. Had to download a number of apps just to make the iso system tolerable without me throwing company property out of the window SMH

    Milan
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    6 years ago

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    and how much did you cry?

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    Jace
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait: that laptop has Bluetooth. Why do you need a dongle?? If the mouse doesn’t have standard Bluetooth, it’s c**p.

    Carson Lujan
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you guys know that mouse does have Bluetooth connection too (I have it and it works perfectly fine)

    David Manhart
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok. I'm missing something. This seems ok to me... ?

    Valerio Mitritsakis
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been using bluetooth mice with my MacBook Pro for nearly 10 years. Switching to the 2017 MacBookPro was painless. Why would anyone buy a proprietary wireless mouse when there are so many bluetooth mice out there? Even logitec has a few of them.

    shado
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    bit of a problem on anything with only one usb port, dongle or not... try finding a bluetooth trackball for even MS laptops o_0

    Kitty Champagne
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why not just put the USB in the USB spot instead of the extension?

    Adam Hart-Dyke
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    They connected a non Apple device to an Apple device? Heresy! Burn the unbeliever! Yeah, go do one Apple, you have become scum. I suspect that Apple powers its corporate headquarters using a generator built around the spinning corps of Steve Jobs.

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    A B C
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Safe to say, this one's pretty sh*tty

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    earringnut
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But does it fit on small vodka bottles. Asking for a friend.

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    Jeff Requier
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All comes out of the same faucet, my city has water fountains with cold filtered water for free

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    A B C
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love eating. Now, why the f*ck would I want to get an electronic fork that destroys the immersion (if you wanna call it so) by annoying me way more than even the most helicoptering parents could? Also, I probably can't eat while it's doing a software update. I'd like to throw it out in the garbage, but my shoes are updating at the moment...

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    wandile dludlu
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is funny here is that everyone around the world look at the chinese (asian people in general) as having very similar faces. (I think i did a great job of saying that without seeming racist)

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    A B C
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whoever buys this: if we're friends - we're not anymore.

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    A B C
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you buy junk like that, you deserve it.

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    Mewton’s Third Paw
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eh, it’s not like that generation has much of a future anyway. Let them have fun I guess.

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    Kristy P
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who says wood paneling is outdated?? lol

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    Peter Wynd
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a youtube guy who makes videos about looking for snakes. Search the writing at the bottom of the image!

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    A B C
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well this one ain't that bad. If you put the trap, say, in a remote area of your barn because that's where the rodents frequent the most, you'd want to clean and reset it as quickly as possible to maximize its efficiency.

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    Ale_Vidal23
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that's exactly what apple users deserve :P now seriously, you are telling me that from time to time you will have to refill your phone with pepper spray? dafuq?!

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    Pug Pug
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah this GDPR s**t set my company back months between development and testing. Its so dumb. Also since most of our customers are America, we had to inculed an opt out option to not p**s them off, and now everyone can opt out, so yeah. time well spent....

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