Bad Design

[Ghoulish Delight]

This one's old new, but it has to be my favorite "Who The Fvck Thought This Was a Good Idea" gadget ever.

TwitterPeek

This was a $100 handheld device that did one thing (interface with Twitter) - and did it terribly:

The Twitter Peek does not display full 140-character messages on the home screen, links in tweets lead to badly rendered text-only Web pages, you can only view images from TwitPic and no other Twitter photo service, you can't have multiple Twitter accounts on it, it can take a long time to load new tweets, and it doesn't load all the missed tweets between when it's powered off and back on. It is also far too expensive for what it does.