You saved up a few paychecks, eating cereal for dinner for weeks, only to rush out and buy that new tech toy you've had your eye on. But here we are 6 months later, and all it's doing is collecting dust. Everybody has one—a much-anticipated but ultimately neglected piece of tech—and we want you to admit it right here.
For me, it's the XBOX Kinect.
When the Kinect first joined our multi-console family, I couldn't have been more excited. Between Dance Central, Kinect Sports and Kinect Adventures (yes, I even enjoyed the "game included" title), I played games with the Kinect every single day—at first. But after three or four months, the novelty wore off. It became a pain to slide the living room furniture around just to dance to a song or two.
But when it comes to abandoning tech, I'm not the only one who crashes down from a "new-gear" high. Here are some other popular answers we've heard from friends and colleagues while researching the topic:
- Nintendo Wii
- Rock Band
- Guitar Hero
- WiiFit & WiiFit Balance Board
- Amazon Kindle
- Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera
- Waffle Maker
- EA Sports Active
We guess something about video games—especially workout video games—lends them to being cast off quickly. Especially the novelty of a system like Nintendo Wii.
In July, Wired published several reader-submitted photos of their lesser-used Wii systems & accessories (the photos in this post are two of them) under the headline, "Wiijected."
What about you? Have you Wiijected your Wii? Gotten sick of setting up the Rock Band Drums? Given up on getting fit with Kinect? We want to hear what devices you're not using, so tell us in the comments!
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I admit that I turned on our digital photo frame once and never turned it on again.
Flip camera
Rock Band. Played a handful of times for the first month then began the dust collecting. Still have it sitting in a bin waiting to be donated to some rockin kids.
Hey you should remember you have Ebay to sell all doze for good money to buy what you already need.
Wii, played it a handful of times and its never seen the light of day since.
Nook, caught in the hype I guess. For my busy schedule books are better in the audio format, into the closet the nook went.
Digital photo frame is on the list for me. I don't play Guitar Hero anymore but I got good use out of it for awhile. The one I regret the most was a DVD player. I bought it when living with some friends as my Xbox was hooked up to the main tv in our living room and I wanted to have something to watch DVD's on my room TV. What was I thinking? I think I turned it on once and then went back to watching reruns of Pawn Stars late at night.
Nintendo Wii -
The only reason I kept it for so long was for Goldeneye which came out last year. Now it's coming out for all the systems next week!
Roomba
Webcams. Embarrassingly, several of them.
Netbook(s).
On my 2nd Black Friday excursion, I bought an Olympus digital camera for roughly $200. Worse purchase ever. I have rarely used it in the past 6 years of owning it.
A car GPS, but mainly b/c I don't drive much. I'm so glad I never bought a Wii!!
Guilty of the Wii, Wii fit & board. I like to think I am going to play it again. About 2 minutes before reading this post I was chatting with a friend how we miss her Game Cube and how we could school everyone on Mario Kart... The Wii has been blown out of the water by xbox kinect.... for now. :)
I use my waffle maker ALL the time.
I don't use my point and shoot camera nearly as often since I got my iPhone 4. I still like to use it at parties, when my phone is the music player :)
@straybongo Echoing the Roomba comment. We don't use our Mint as much as we used to or should.
PS3 Move
Another vote for Wii and Wii Fit.
Wii, Wii Fit, and board... But I gave them all away in exchange for help when I moved. Also on my list is the Chumby, which turned out to be an expensive clock, and a FlipHD camera that didn't even make it past the initial charge. Sigh.
I purchased a Kenwood AV Receiver, bout $800. Thankfully it was on interest free. Used it for 1-2 months, moved stuff around, it's now been under my bed for 2 years. Will sell it soon.
Another one with a dust-gathering Wii. It's quite sad actually seeing I use my Game Cube regularly. :D
Oh, and about 80% of my App Store purchases.
we use our wii EVERY weekend - with the kids, of course, as it is a family-friendly console (can't remember a single game on xbox that is not at least slightly violent...
is there anything better on a cold winter evening than getting warm with mario party or even wii sports?
I have to agree with the App Store purchases, they get boring after a while, but otherwise, 0,79 eurocent to keep me entertained for at least a week of train- or car-traveling isn't that bad...
oh and i forgot: our Roomba saved our life and as it is programmed to do its job on its own we only have to empty him every second evening. coming home form work to find our livingroom/kitchen clean is a great feeling!