Tag: DUMB

Kraft Foods -- the manufacturer of such wholesome vittles as Oreo Funstix, Easy Cheese and Handi-Snacks -- would like to scan your face, and then stuff it. Hooray! Among other enormous and fantastical "innovations" on view at last week's National Retail Federation show was Kraft and Intel's 'Meal Planning Solution' kiosk. According to Fast Company, the kiosk scans your face with some kind of ...

So much crazy stuff happens on Election Day that it can sometimes take weeks to properly pick through it all. That's why we're only just getting around to telling you about this doofus who mistook his own Amazon delivery for a bomb. The police, we're sure, were thrilled to help -- just as much as they loved this lady. Put those tax dollars to work, people! ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. The simplest ...

Here's evidence that you don't have to be speeding down a road in order to be severely injured by talking on your cell phone. This Yanks fan should just count himself lucky that this swing was a ground-rule double, and not a home run blast from A-Rod. Check out the video after the break to see why talking and balling is a dangerous, er, sport. [From: Deadspin] ...

When Samsung's creative team was sitting around brainstorming names for the company's newest phone, they obviously wanted a moniker that would stick: something to entice its target audience, pique the interest of onlookers and, apparently, annoy the living bejeesus out of us. So, they decided to name it ':)'. Mission accomplished. Sure, the new phone features a QWERTY keyboard, runs T-Mobile's ...

For real? What the hell, CTA? What was once an incredibly entertaining enterprise -- discovering, trying and ridiculing absurd console peripherals -- has just become an exasperating chore. We laughed heartily at your Wii bowling ball, and eagerly anticipated the inevitable living room destruction. We chortled at the somewhat amusing Wiimote football and its possibilities for foolishness. Then, ...

You might have noticed something missing from the iBooks announcement yesterday -- McGraw Hill. Mere hours before the Apple event, the publishing company's CEO, Terry McGraw, went on CNBC and let it slip that there would indeed be a tablet, and that his company had worked closely with Apple to bring its collection of text books and other educational publications to the iPad. Yet, when Apple ...

This shouldn't come as earth-shattering news to anyone, but Scott Baio is pretty pathetic. With his 'Happy Days' far, far behind him, and after his miserably solipsistic VH1 reality shows made Flava Flav look like Alistair Cooke, the 48-year old Chachi doesn't have a whole lot of career-revitalizing cards left to play. So he apparently decided to turn to Twitter in a last ditch attempt at ...

Only a fool in this era of high-level security would fake a bomb threat, let alone Tweet about it, but that's pretty much what Paul Chambers did last week via Twitter. The Inquirer reports that the 26-year-old UK native was set to the fly to Ireland from the Robin Hood airport in Finningley, South Yorkshire until he realized the airport was closed because of snow. Obviously frustrated -- and ...

If petty criminals suffer from one glaring flaw, it's usually an overinflated ego. That was certainly the case with 24-year-old Peter Gamblin, who now faces prison time in England for allegedly stealing Jonathan Franke's phone, wallet, necklace, and watch. Joe Dale, a friend of Franke's, was on the line when the robbery started and overheard someone demanding money before the line went dead. ...

While texting and driving is illegal, texting while pushing a stroller surprisingly isn't. Which is the only reason we can see something as frivolous -- and potentially dangerous -- as the Texthook getting approved. Billed as the "dashboard for your mobile life," the Texthook, which straps onto the handlebar of a stroller and holds most smart phones, seems just about as practical as these ...

Part of being a professional is knowing how to separate work and play. For example, if you're a network systems administrator that's interested in extraterrestrial life, you shouldn't search for signs of it while on the clock. Unfortunately for Brad Niesluchowski, common sense is illusive. According to the Arizona Republic, Niesluchowski resigned from his position with the Higley Unified School ...

The success of the Pet Rock has mystified consumers and would-be inventors for decades, and has become synonymous with the get-rich-quick scam. The ridiculous trinket has also inspired countless knock-offs and similarly inane, googly-eyed contraptions, with which harebrained hucksters attempt to make their own millions. ThinkGeek is apparently putting a 21st century spin on that old Pet Rock by ...

Ithaca may be "Gorges," but an ugly e-mail blunder has recently rocked the New York college town, eliciting a region-wide cringe. A married consultant employed at Cornell University, known as John, recently sent a long series of salacious e-mails to his mistress, a Cornell Business School employee named Lisa (also married). And now the entire school knows about it. See, in a recent email to his ...

Lots of people have asked: does all the time we spend on Facebook make us dumber? After reading about a 19-year-old Pennsylvania kid's allegedly bungled burglary, the answer just might be, yes. The Journal reports that Jonathan G. Parker was arraigned Tuesday on one count of felony burglary, after he allegedly stole two diamond rings from a Martinsburg, West Virginia home. The police didn't ...