Ok, here they are. The 10 worst gadgets and inventions of all time. Let me know if i missed anything.

10 . The beer pouring robot

Expect it not to be a cold one by the time you get it

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5. Space Tourism

What is it?

It’s all in the name. The idea is for ordinary people (as opposed to astronauts) to be able to take a trip into space for a reasonable price. We will all be able to experience zero gravity without having to take a trip on the “vomit express” - as used on Apollo 13’s zero gravity scenes.
For now, trips will only be an option for the super-rich, or celebrities such as William Shatner (who deserves to go more than Shatner?). That is because trips cost $200,000 and deposits start from $20,000 (Virgin Galactic prices). I’m not great with heights, and personally would only consider it if I had just a year left to live.

Virgin Galactic - more couples arguing for the window seat

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DoubleClick, the privately owned online advertising organisation, has been sold to Google for the hefty sum of 3.1 billion dollars (1.5 million pounds). Whilst this is good news for the rapidly expanding Google corporation, fair play may have been thrown out of the window.

Double click provide a digital marketing service, not far removed from Google’s own adwords/adsense technology. So does the largest player in the internet results and advertising game really need DoubleClick?

Well according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt “DoubleClick’s technology is widely adopted by leading advertisers, publishers and agencies, and the combination of the two companies will accelerate the adoption of Google’s innovative advances in display advertising” - Which translated means it is good news for people who use or in the future intend to use Google’s advertising services. Unfortunately for the smaller internet advertising companies around, it is bad news and is likely to be another nail in their Google manufactured coffin. Monopoly, anyone?