Crapgadget: how to ruin a gift-giving experience edition

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"Digital Cameras/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"Displays/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"Misc. Gadgets/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"Peripherals/a/pdiv align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/11-10-08-santa-snowman-frames.jpg" /br //div Especially in North and South Dakota, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Disgustingly, that also means that the onslaught of horrifically crappy gadgets to celebrate the occasion are making their way out in full force. In this episode of the world's a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Crapgadget/"lamest excuse for gadgets/a, we see a smattering of gizmos that you should never -- under emany/em circumstance -- give to anyone you love (or like, or don't loathe). On the other hand, these are all perfect for gifting someone you aren't particularly fond of. Check out the catastrophes below, and toss in your vote for most pathetic in the handy poll down there.br /br /a href="http://www.gadget4all.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00526"Read/a - USB animal hand warmer / massagerbr /a href="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/?p=6274"Read/a - Ornament ball digital photo framebr /a href="http://www.sourcingmap.com/2gb-santa-claus-stocking-usb-flash-memory-drive-p-13859.html"Read/a - Santa stocking USB drivebr /a href="http://www.zazzle.com/doormousemat_mousepad-144729222421386918"Read/a - Dog mat mouse padbr /a href="http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/dazzling_banana_an_electronic_banana_peeler.php"Re ad/a - Banana peeling simulatorbr /a href="http://www.openpr.com/news/58892/Nextar-Introduces-Novel-Holiday-Digital-Photo-Frames.html"Read/a - Santa / Snowman digiframesbr /br / div align="center"pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/crapgadget-how-to-ruin-a-gift-giving-experience-edition/#poll22095"View Poll/a/p/divp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/crapgadget-how-to-ruin-a-gift-giving-experience-edition/"Crapgadget: how to ruin a gift-giving experience edition/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:04:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/crapgadget-how-to-ruin-a-gift-giving-experience-edition/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1367129/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/10/crapgadget-how-to-ruin-a-gift-giving-experience-edition/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/H4cIclJDIGfoHa0xBit9n-a9rN0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/H4cIclJDIGfoHa0xBit9n-a9rN0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=nQOLHp0W"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=nQOLHp0W" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=xPJ9nNKk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=xPJ9nNKk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/pkwKtyw8dFg" height="1" width="1"/