11 Hilarious Products That No One Could Possibly Need (Even Rich People)

We love stupid products. Stupid retro products, ridiculous generic products, inappropriate children's products, and so on. But there's nothing we love more than products that serve no purpose but cost a bunch of money. These are those products. Vote for the worst!

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The Children's Night Vision Camcorder

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Yeah, this is a real product, because OF COURSE you want your kids spying on people in the dark. (via Hammacher Schlemmer)

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Yeah, this is a real product, because OF COURSE you want your kids spying on people in the dark. (via Hammacher Schlemmer)

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I'd buy that CRAZY

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[whisperindave]

01:41 PM on 11/22/2010

Ok, I don't NEED it, but the childrens night vision cam-corder would be great to do a cool Blair Witch Project type video, a scandalous sex tape or to watch the little bunny rabbits eating all of the carrots in your garden at night! I would be a bit concerned if I accidentally used the motorized golf club cleaner on my golf club dispenser after having a few shots of Jack Daniels while watching my grass grow in Fast Forward speed. You KNOW the cat won't use that seat, so that's a no go. tanning your feet? really? You were at the beach wearing full dress shoes or tennies and forgot to get sand between your toes? I don't think so. Good way to get an overdose of UV rays though. I really like the peep hole viewer! That rocks! Every Mormon and Jehovahs witness can be on my personal "Leave Me The F*ck Alone Show!" I wonder if it records? Could make some fodder for Tosh.0.

[Progress08]

10:48 AM on 11/05/2010

say what you will but I'm buying the marshmallow shooter.... and possibly the fish finder.

[mick e]

12:13 PM on 10/31/2010

I guess my idea for an electric cat scrubber, and combination tooth brush is just too silly..

[bisbeeornotbisbee]

07:53 PM on 10/23/2010

Whoaa, I should have edited. Take the "d" off of the word "bizarre, please!

[bisbeeornotbisbee]

07:52 PM on 10/23/2010

This is a re-tread from way back. my favorite, which didn't make the list, was Ronco's "scramble the egg in it's own shell!" You poked a hole in the shell, inserted a little metal rod and stirred up the egg. Then you broke the egg into the pan and cooked it. I always found it very bizarred. I once read a book about Ron Popeil, the inventor of many things (including the "set it and forget it rotisserie") and he said he invented it because he had an aversion to looking at/handling raw eggs. Oh.

One of the funniest I ever heard of was the ads for stuff in the back of kids' magazines in the 50s and 60s. One kid sent away for a device that was guaranteed to kill houseflies and other insects. What he got on the mail was 2 painted wooden blocks. On one was written "Place fly or insect here" and on the other was written, "Slam this block onto the block with fly or insect", or words to that effect. Ha, ha, ha! We were never allowed to send for stuff, but when I was little, I always wanted a "sea monkey". :)

[whisperindave]

01:46 PM on 11/22/2010

Sea monkeys sucked. Nothing but tiny brine shrimp which died in one day. You can still buy them at Wal-Mart. The "Moon Rocks" were cool though. You put them in water and all these weird colored towers would grow. They still have those too! Amazing what has survived the Jurassic Age of my youth. Hoola Hoops, jacks, marbles, all still around. Even wooden spindle tops...Buy the Moon Rocks and make a strange city for your Sea Monkeys to rule!

[bisbeeornotbisbee]

02:59 PM on 11/22/2010

ROFLMAO.  Fanned and faved for the laughs and memories.

[YouDontWantMeHere]

03:01 PM on 10/23/2010

wait a minute it looks like some peoples want these

[Jared Drury]

02:49 PM on 10/23/2010

If you have a small desk that cat chair could be kind of handy.

[Tunghoy]

01:48 PM on 10/23/2010

The fish-finder watch would be useful for swimmers if it has a shark or piranha setting. (Or a setting for old aerobicisers, for when you're doing laps in the indoor pool.)

[LogicalMathMan]

05:00 PM on 10/21/2010

How about the vibrating dumbbell? PS: It's not a sex toy.

[fbs]

03:25 PM on 10/21/2010

What's more sad? that the article is either poorly thought out or that it is an advertising ruse? Huffington Post gotta get that money yall.

[BMcCue7]

03:08 PM on 10/21/2010

That "Time-Lapse PlantCam" doesn't look all THAT useless.

Actually, I thought about doing something like that anyway. My wife started a garden a little while ago, and I took my digital camera and tripod out, intending to snap a picture every morning in order to make a time-lapse movie for YouTube.

I marked the position of the tripod's feet so it would be in the same place every morning. The first morning it was sunny. The second morning it was overcast. The third morning it was raining, and I gave up on the idea.

[SGSterrett]

12:32 AM on 11/12/2010

I agree. This is a fabulous product. There is also one for use near a birdbath. I can only guess that the person who made fun of it is pretty clueless about nature.

[Libby123]

10:06 AM on 11/18/2010

I know a kid who won her science fair with time-lapse videos of plants she grew. Some beans, some flowers and some grasses. She had detailed day-to-day reports of the plants' development, but the videos capped it and won the thing for her. The judges were especially impressed that she had begun the project so far in advance of the fair and planned it out so well.

[sonofsonoflars]

03:40 PM on 10/01/2010

When I first saw this I thought the marshmallow shooter was pretty awesome. So I went to the website and found out I was absolutely correct. LOL $20 well spent.

You always get sweet victory with this marshmallow classic shooter. The easy-to-refill magazine makes the Marshmallow Shooter your marshmallow launch weapon of choice. Rapid fire shooting with ‘pump-action’ sets this marshmallow blaster apart from any other marshmallow toy gun.

[Himself2606]

05:10 PM on 09/30/2010

Maybe a night vision camera seems creepy, but kids like to use cameras inside and I'm sick of all the dark, blurry pictures and video my kid takes.

[writersbloc]

03:08 AM on 09/30/2010

the Golf Club drink dispenser is pretty cool and lame at the same time (if that's possible). I wouldn't buy it, but I would surely not refuse a drink offered from it. Good luck getting that into a night club...unless you're Tiger "Hot-Pants" Woods.

[Emily Massey]

01:44 PM on 09/29/2010

I would actually use a couple of these, like the smart shopper, the plant cam and of course the marshmallow shooter.