The peripherals or accessories of a computer are those which are not essential to its operation and which are connected to it by an external interface. For example, the keyboard, the mouse or even the monitor or the printer. However, it’s not those devices that we’re here to talk about today, but those that make you wonder how they got the green light. WhatWant to know which were the worst peripherals in PC history? Well keep reading.
Each device must solve a problem, if it does not succeed or if there is another that does it much better, then it loses all reason for being and ends up in ostracism. This has happened with many technologies that have been replaced by others that are much more appropriate, but in our case we will not be talking about technologies that have already been displaced, but rather products that, put together, are the merry-go-round – Round of absurdities. Let’s see what they are.
These are the worst peripherals ever
Normally, we buy a device because we need it, but there are days when we have money on us and the consumerist vein makes us buy the first stupidity we see. Although if we are honest, you have to be bored to buy one of these wonders that we are going to present to you below. Since its only function is to take up space in a drawer or on a desk.
SONY Vaio Talk Mouse
With the advent of high-speed Internet, not only have thousands of baud modems become unusable, network cards have taken their place in people’s computers. Well, the greater bandwidth has enabled the concept of VoIP or voice over the Internet. That is to say, to be able to make calls between two people as if it were a telephone, but via the Internet and that also brought some meaningless accessories.
One of them was the SONY Vaio Mouse Talk, a device that combined a VoIP phone with a mouse at the same time, preventing you from being able to work while talking to other people. Worse? At that time, headsets with built-in microphone already existed, so this is something that remains huge nonsense.
Trackballs
If you’ve looked at HardZone, we’ve never recommended a trackball as a pointing device for using your computer, mainly due to the fact that they’re uncomfortable to use. Also, if we talk about a desktop PC, it has been shown that it is much better to use the conventional mouse to be able to use each of our applications. Which makes it one of the worst PC peripherals if you have all the mobility in your hand.
Blu-ray recorders
On the PC, CDs and DVDs were not only used for listening to music and watching movies respectively, but also for storing and running applications. However, when internet connections got fast enough, it turned out to be much better to download the app directly from the internet. On top of that, Blu-Ray is too slow for the random searches required by apps, so even on consoles it’s forced to rely on hard drive installations.
Not a single application for Blu-Ray appeared in the market, which caused no player to appear in the market. As if that were not enough, today it does not even serve as a unit for making backup copies. We can use a hard disk that allows us to run applications from mine, but not from a Blu-Ray. Which makes it a useless device and one of the worst peripherals.
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