useless

    By Josh Smith

    | 3:15PM 7/13/2009
    Attend enough conferences, grand openings and midnight releases and you'll come to know one of the most useless pieces of junk I know of; free thumbdrives. When thumb drives first entered the corporate and customer swag world, a free 128MB thumbdrive was the coolest thing in the world. It held 80...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 9:00AM 7/12/2009
    As worthless pieces of junk go, Polaroid cameras are on the pleasant end of the spectrum. Digital cameras have become so ubiquitous that toddlers frequently ask to see the image of themselves on the back of my (film) camera. When I tell them they'll have to wait a few weeks, they look at me...

    By Josh Smith

    | 3:00PM 7/11/2009
    "Are you Gellin'?" asks the popular shoe insert commercial for Dr. Scholl's shoe insert, portraying individuals who are unphased by awkward circumstances because their feet are blissfully comfortable, thanks to their massaging gel insoles. Despite the carefree attitude that these commercials...