Tech Gadgets: The 10 Most Useless

From foot tanners to stroller tablets. From GPS-enabled shoes to smartphone helmets. So many ways to waste money.

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Under the pretext that technology must always surprise us, we often risk wasting money buying completely useless electrical and electronic gadgets.

In the catalog of useless technological gadgets, a source of double waste (the expense made and what we give up with that same money), we're spoiled for choice. This is also because technology always tends to create new needs, new opportunities, that don't exist in reality. Especially when it comes to childrenHere are ten electronic gadgets you can definitely do without, knowing you're not missing out on anything.

Foot tanning

Even a tan that is not natural is suspicious and sometimes even dangerousImagine what a foot tanner could be used for: a device you can even use while typing on a computer. But what's the point of tanning your feet out of season?

Stroller Tablet

Diabolical and wasteful invention of the technology applied in a distorted way to children little ones. In theory, they are distracted by watching a cartoon while they are walking around in the stroller, they don't throw tantrums and they leave the person who is driving them alone, perhaps in a beautiful park, full of trees. But why this unnecessary distraction? Aside from the cost of the children's tablet (around 100 euros), you also risk wasting money on the stroller tablet holder, for which Amazon charges 20 euros.

Automatic scroller

But is it really that difficult and tiring to shake a cellularYou just risk wasting more time trying to operate a useless technological gadget.

Shoes with GPS

To justify this technological madness, they want us to believe that they can be useful for elderly people with neurological problems, such as Alzheimer, which we otherwise risk losing. Or for small children. In both cases, the motivation is unsustainable and it's a useless gadget.

Smartphone helmet

If you want to be even more slaves of the smartphone, buy this useless helmet that you can easily walk around like a zombie with.

Baby bottle cell phone holder

It is a gadget that allows mothers, during the pregnancy phase,nursing, of simultaneously feeding and fiddling with your smartphone. A complete waste of one of the most beautiful and sweetest moments in a mother's life.

30-meter cable for charging your cell phone

The anxiety from cellular It always plays nasty tricks. We go into a frenzy as soon as there's the slightest doubt about whether our electronic prosthesis will charge. So they invented this completely useless gadget: a 30-meter-long cord with a charging port at the end. Just to make sure we can handle it.

Car seats with sensors

In this case, the sensor is supposed to prevent distracted parents from forgetting their baby in the car. Unfortunately, this has happened, and more than once. But is it necessary to create a technological gadget costing around €400?

Smart egg holder

It's called the "Quirky Egg Minder," and it's a technological egg holder that alerts you when your eggs are about to expire. A cute kitchen gadget, but not essential.

Kuvée Bottle

A wireless wine bottle that provides product information and helps preserve your wine in tip-top condition thanks to a cartridge that prevents oxygen from coming into contact with it. Never again without it? Absolutely not!

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