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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday I showed you a machine that turns itself off, also known as a "Useless Machine." The version from yesterday is enhanced with lots of fancy audio and other options; the most common ...

"Useless machines" have been around since the 1950s. Now they're making a comeback on the Internet. Invented in the 1950s by an artificial-intelligence expert, the device is known as the "useless ...

My own favourite personal example, though - and I'm probably bending the theory a little to reach this point - is the 'useless machine': a great name for a great invention. A great invention that ...

You remember The Most Useless machine, right? The one that encapsulates our entire interaction with technology by boiling it down to a zero-sum back and forth that ends in a meltdown? Well here ...

What’s the most useless machine man has ever built? While that question’s answer is of course very subjective, we think we have found a very worthy candidate. Hack A Day points us to Useless ...

When Wired posted its list of “The World’s Most Annoying Technologies” a few weeks back, “The Most Useless Machine” (a box with a toggle switch, which, when flipped, causes a mechanical ...

Explore the world of creative engineering with Hacksmith Industries as they build the most useless yet fascinating machine ever! Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase ...