What is your least favorite piece of technology?

[Raymond]

I know for those of us that have been in South America awhile, we have had to face the challenges of learning new phones, finding quality electricians that don´t sell cables that short-out your expensive electronic toys etc, but for the most part I at least have become used to not being so tech dependant. My girlfriend has a blackberry which even she cannot navigate well and on the ocassions I´ve tried to send a text I enevitably hand it back to her muttering something about her mother. I miss my iphone and frankly the windows phone is a close second to the blackberry for me..

 

[what wave]

My least favourite would be the internal combustion engine.

But anyway, since when does south america pose the challenge of having to learn a new phone? And since when do you buy cables from an electrician?

 

[Fabe]

Id have to say its this grammaphone. When it gets hot the wax cilinders melts

 

[va2ba]

iPhone. Can't stand any Apple products really.

 

[Fabe]

You know ? I have an iphone that has never been outside my nightstand drawer. Im afraid im gonna crush it or something. I know it doesnt compare , but i only need one hand to do all i need to do on my bb

 

[marksoc]

I don´t know about the least, I know about the best one. If my Kindle was a woman I would marry it.

The least would be all those facebook-capable phones. Since they were invented is impossible to start a conversation with a girl on the train/bus.

 

[gpop]

• Anything that can wake me up when I am sleeping.
• Things that make NOISE in a place or time when silence is called for.
• Car horn, or worse, truck horns in a residential neighborhood.
• Car alarms.
• Cellular phones "that must be answered" when you are in a conversation with someone, and their ringtones.
• Chinese made anything.
• Bad speakers on low watt amps belching mindless [mindless genre] music.
• Guns
• Things that MUST be updated or outmoded every couple of days.
• Fake wood.
• Fake Doc Martens.
• Fake boobs
• DRM

There's more but I am starting to not like my computer now too.

 

[PhilipDT]

• Fake boobs

Here, I must respectfully, but firmly, disagree.

 

[surfing]

Cell phones; they have ruined peace and quiet in any public space!

 

[Gringoboy]

Agree with surfing.
Not only the mobile phone but also that dammed Nextel phone, which is like a walkie talkie.
As if we all need to hear the intimate details of both the user and of the one who called them.
Also, whatever happened to 'Can I call you back, as I'm busy right now?', particularly when you are with someone having a chat or whatever and their phone goes off.
When I'm with my lady or someone else and my attention is focused on them, I either ignore the call or ask the caller to call back.
I think it's called good manners.