There are loads of threads on this forum all about the things that we've acquired that we've fallen madly in love with. While it's all well and good to support the ridiculous habit we all indulge in with praise and adoration, I thought it might be worth starting a thread dedicated entirely to disappointment. Why? Because the world is too happy.
I shall start:
SmartNav 4 EG
When I first heard of the SmartNav I looked upon it with awe and desire. It's hands free interface seem to me to be the perfect melding of man and machine. If I owned this device I would be forever changed... I would be able to be part of the computer. My will would be enacted effortlessly as dead people in fps games. I would surf the internet like none who came before me. I would transcend...
But then I got it:
I can not begin to describe the range of disappointment that I felt after I received this device. First, I was shocked to discover that while I could move a cursor on the screen with my hand, using my head required a degree of dedication and subtlety that I was very incapable of. As I swung my head side-to-side, up-and-down I was disappointed to find that trying to look at the screen again only moved the cursor yet again... I quickly discovered that I was not Leeroy Jenkins but rather Some-Derpy-7-Year-Old-On-His-Fathers-Steam-Account when playing any FPS. I found that getting to the navigation bar was not an effortless expression of desire but rather an endless exercise in futility.
Lastly... to my great dismay... I discovered that I was not the perfect melding of man an machine... I was a lazy fatty using the computer badly.
That's my story of disappointment. Share yours!