Humanity has produced some truly elite ideas. The snooze button, read receipts, and trash bags with drawstrings that actually close. Civilizational wins. Whoever invented these absolutely understood ...

Useless robots (or useless machines) are devices that, when switched on, exist only to turn themselves back off. They are fun and fairly simple builds that are easy to personify, and really invite ...

Welcome to the wonderfully absurd world of hilariously useless facts! You know those random tidbits that serve absolutely no practical purpose but somehow make you feel infinitely smarter and ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sites like these continue to exist in their own tiny corner of the web, long after their moment of viral fame as ...

We all know what it means to procrastinate, but what about actively spending time building a useless machine? You have undoubtedly seen the ornamental boxes with a tempting little toggle switch on the ...

The World Wide Web has had a huge impact on our lives today. Be it blogs, social media, or YouTube, the Internet has the power to shape politics and society in a way that no one ever was able to ...

Useless tech is all around us, and they can easily make us wonder, "what's the point?" But then again, some people have a lot of time on their hands. And with that much time, they can think of almost ...