No, this isn't an instructional guide on how to build a TwitterPeek. This device is even more useless. Impossible? Hardly. Check out the video. Then hit ...

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 ...

Have you ever seen a video of something called “The Most Useless Machine Ever” ? Actually, this is really rather cool. I would love something like this on ...

Thought we'd mix things up this week with a low tech How-To courtesy of Hack A Day editor Jason Striegel: I spent the weekend trying to design a small espresso machine that you can make from ...

Here is a video of the most useless machine ever created, and its predecessor too.

The useless machine is a concrete way of exploring the idea that there can be a strange kind of utility to things that very clearly have no utility.