The world of tech has taken some great strides forward in the past few years. Nowhere is this trend more visible than social media and hardware that seems to be designed to make our lives simpler. Some of these new inventions, though, are actually nothing more than a pain. We list five new technologies that have gotten our goats more than anything else.
Sony's head-mounted HMZ - T3
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Imagine a 3D mount on your head that gives out data over its dual 720p OLED display and is priced at just under Rs 1,50,000. This is the stuff of mouth-watering sci-fi possibilities and gaming orgasms waiting to happen. Except that it isn't really. What the HMZ - T3 really is is yet another monstrosity on our heads that reduce our ability to use our real heads.
Apple iPhone 5S' fingerprint scanner
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It's such a pain remembering all your different passwords, right? No worries, the good guys at Apple under Tim Cook have just launched the new iPhone 5S with a fingerprint scanner. Cue loud ooohs and aaahs! Only that the company has yet to say how the stored fingerprint data will be used or shared. In this world of naked privacy, giving up your fingerprints to the world is one of the few privileges you were left with for yourself (if you don't have an Aadhaar card that is, but that's a different story altogether). Until now.
Samsung Galaxy Gear
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What exactly is the point of this 'watch'? The Samsung Galaxy Gear supposedly allows you to record audio messages and take pictures apart from getting messages on your hand because you are too busy (read lazy) to remove the phone from your pocket to see it for yourself. And the camera? To encourage an indecent society like ours to click pictures of women with even more ease? This is an obtrusion, not an innovation. Why would anybody need this really! And why on earth are companies like Sony and Qualcomm jumping on to this race.
TweetPee
So you've rocked your baby to sleep and are just about to enjoy a quiet dinner with the missus after weeks! But wait, your phone just beeped a Twitter message saying that your child's diaper has become wet, courtesy Tweetpee. And oh, don't even think anything about having a WiFi-enabled gadget on your baby all the time. After all, this Brazilian innovation is designed to help you become an amazing parent, right? Right?
Nymi
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Chances are you have never heard of Nymi (pronounced Nim-mi) and for the love of god, we hope you never do. For Nymi is a device unlike any other. It purports to be a wristband that monitors your heartbeat as a way of unlocking all your devices such as tablets, smartphones and laptops. Nymi is equipped to measure the person's ECG to tell different people apart. Which will get interesting when the same person is happy, sad, angry, frustrated etc. Created by a Canadian company called Bionym, the device is up for pre-orders for $79 and will release in 2014. Shiver me timbers!
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