Top 10 worst products ever

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Posted on 12 Mar 2010 at 14:22

4. Nintendo Virtual Boy
In 1995 Nintendo decided to create the world's first 'true' 3D graphics games console: the Virtual Boy. Looking exactly like a massive ViewMaster that you strap to your head when lying down (or stand in front of using the supplied stand) it was a massively uncomfortable device to use.

3D images were created using two 1x224 linear arrays. Each array was scanned rapidly across the eye's field of view using flat oscillating mirrors, which made a humming noise when the console was turned on.

It sounds clever, but was just awful. Red LEDs were used, as they were the cheapest, making games appear in a weird monochrome shade. The system was painfully uncomfortable to look at and we'd describe it as a hideous red blur.

Nintendo didn't make or sell many Virtual Boys and thankfully went back to making standard consoles.

3. Revo Sex Drive
How do you distinguish yet another USB flash drive from another? Put some low-quality porn on it and call it the Sex Drive (fnarr, fnarr). At least, that's what Revo thought when it unleashed its ill-conceived attempt at titillation.

The idea behind the drive was that it was protected by encryption software, which required you to click on a specific sequence of low-quality 'tasteful' erotic pictures. Not only is this harder than typing in a password, but the pictures were so small and tiny that they wouldn't even get the most eagle-eyed pervert excited.

To make matters worse, the encryption software could only be installed on a single PC, thus negating the entire point of having portable storage. Then there's the real point: if you want pictures of nudey ladies, the internet's full of high-quality images for free (or, so we've been told).

The only good news is that we can't find this product for sale any more.