Perfect christmas gift for geeks.

[Claudya]

Stumbled upon this on the internet:
The Useless Box.
It's perfectly useless, because all it does when you switch it on is to switch itself off.

It's so mega cute.
Question: is it still useless if it makes me laugh?

There's a link in the info of the video where you can buy it. It's 40 $ for the electronics assembly kit, so this actually a rather awesome gift for people that are into that sort of technology and have the right sense of humour.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Stumbled upon this on the internet:
The Useless Box.
It's perfectly useless, because all it does when you switch it on is to switch itself off.

It's so mega cute.
Question: is it still useless if it makes me laugh?

There's a link in the info of the video where you can buy it. It's 40 $ for the electronics assembly kit, so this actually a rather awesome gift for people that are into that sort of technology and have the right sense of humour.

Claudya, stop it.
Claudya, help me.
I can't stop laughing.

P.S. where can I buy one?

 

[Claudya]

P.S. where can I buy one?

If you look go to the youtube site of the video you'll find a link in the info of the video leading you to the site where you can buy it: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ef0b/?cpg=yt

 

[Sparkey]

It reminds me of the spooky hand coin box:

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You put a coin in the slot and the hand comes to take it. Not exactly useless though.

 

[tim-from-pa]

I like the ThinkGeek store. I got two slide rules from them but if you did not get them, it's too late as they don't carry them anymore. Those things may become as valuable as gold one day, and I think I have up to 4 in this house, two from my HS days. Even at my age, calculators were starting to make their debut when I was in HS but the one chemistry professor insisted we learn slide rules. Glad he did, and I took a liking to them.

 

[tim-from-pa]

It reminds me of the spooky hand coin box:

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You put a coin in the slot and the hand comes to take it. Not exactly useless though.

I had one of these as a kid.

 

[Barbarian]

I like the ThinkGeek store. I got two slide rules from them but if you did not get them, it's too late as they don't carry them anymore. Those things may become as valuable as gold one day, and I think I have up to 4 in this house, two from my HS days. Even at my age, calculators were starting to make their debut when I was in HS but the one chemistry professor insisted we learn slide rules. Glad he did, and I took a liking to them.

Me too. But I used mine through college. I have a few dozen of them; they can be had for very little money, except for the very newest, which were made in very low quantities, as calculators came on line.

I still get a sense of satisfaction at using one to find the nth power of a decimal.