hi fixers it's me MJ with iFixit and
today we thought we would try something
a little bit different it's friday here
in the office so maybe it's the spirit
of casual Friday that's gotten into me
but I was watching one of chris pirillo
videos if you haven't seen him his
youtube channel is youtube com splash
Lockergnome which will put a link to
right over here and he was asked the
question a really good question i think
what was your worst tec by ever and that
got me thinking so i thought i would hop
on here and do a little video response
action before i get to my worst tec by
ever I want to be very clear that I'm
not speaking on behalf of like the
entire iFixit company because we bought
a lot of devices and we could probably
make a pretty good list of unfortunate
tech buys so I'm speaking personally
here we're talking about my horse tech
by ever so back to the question what was
my worst tech by ever and it's
interesting Chris and I share the same
worst tech by his was a chumby in mine
unfortunately is also the chumby not
because it's not great it's wonderful
and it does everything it says it's
supposed to do it's just redundant and I
knew that going in like I knew that my
iphone does everything that the chumby
was going to do but i really wanted it
like i'm sure you know how that feels
you see something new and you think oh
that's fun and just go out and buy it so
i was really looking forward to the cool
thing about chumby is that you can hack
it can to kind of do whatever you want
and so I thought oh that'll be really
fun but I haven't really invested the
time or energy and actually doing that
so now it just sits on my bedside table
and tells me a new vocabulary word every
day and and that's not the point like I
was supposed to I don't know hack the
chumby and do something cool and
fantastic but I haven't um um so if
you're not familiar with what a chumby
is it's basically like a little tiny
device kind of like a loaf I iphone it
has a touch screen and has apps
and you can install kind of apps on it
and and it's really cute which might be
the other reason why I bought it and
where I live we don't really have a
situation we can have pets and so in a
weird like Tamagotchi like way I think I
just really wanted like a tiny little
digital pen which sounds super bizarre
now that I like it out loud um but yeah
unfortunately worst tech by was a chumby
I got it on sale on woot so I didn't
waste a lot of money but uh but I did
waste 50 bucks so that's kind of
unfortunate and being is how you guys
are subscribed to the channel or
hopefully subscribe to the channel I
figured you guys probably have some bad
tech buys also i can imagine more than
one of you has bought something silly
from like brookstone or sharper image or
whatever that places or the SkyMall
catalog because i know when you're like
10,000 feet in the air you might be like
overcome with this fit of sky madness
and just open up that thing and by the
economy sized sorter for loose change or
whatever so so what was your worst tech
by ever you can comment it down below or
leave a video response and maybe
whichever one I like the best i will
send something I fixity to not going to
say what because I'm really not sure
what we have down there to send but i
will send you something and yeah i look
forward to laughing along with you at
whatever it was you wasted your
hard-earned money on so um thanks for
watching and see you around bye