What are the most annoying technological inventions known to

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What is your list?

My list is:

A). Public restroom faucets that turn on automatically but never work

B). " toilets that turn on automatically but never work

C). " toilets that flush w/o warning and ......spray

C). Automatic handicap door buttons that require a 2nd button to open a 2nd set of double doors

D). Walk or Don't Walk street signs that require the pressing of a button (WTF are they thinking?? Does it consume extra electricity to make them automatic? )

E). Grocery self-scanners that don't work

F). Automated touch screen menus for getting something as simple as a soda

G). Other?

Please add to this list or feel free to comment on the above!

Cell/Smart Phones
Motorcycles (Not the motorcycle per say but the noise it makes)
TV antennas - mostly gone now but they were ugly when they were atop every residence

I also cannot stand cell/smart phones. Cannot hear anything when talking on them, especially if there is background noise. I don't own one and may only use one about once a year in the event of an emergency.

Ah, the noise of motorcycles. They are startling and I always think "narcissist" when hearing someone pass through making their presence known!

The Mosquito. Designed specifically to annoy people, especially teenagers, but the latest version can also annoy almost everybody

Motherf*ing spell check

Foaming @ the mouth h4x0r rant alert:
Yeah. People will put touchscreens on anything. They think it makes them look smarter, though devs know not why. BTW of course it would require more electricity to automate crosswalks. Probably less in the long run however to make cars keep drivers attentive.
Here's my list...
-The glaring omission of hardware keyboards from contemporary smartphones
-That decade's worth of cars in which owners must install Audio inputs of their own at a premium
-The shoddy 3.5mm audio cables everyone gets stuck with on cheap stereos
-The oblivious ignorance of the simple fact that Bluetooth has been around for over 15 years
-CD changers decimating my collection
-Gracenote CDDB
-The dismal example set by the one-port MacBook. Please nobody buy those...
-Form-over-function headphones
-Gluing computers, tablets and phones together

I saved the worst for last: The HP buyout of Palm and the Microsoft buyout of Nokia. That and only that truly pissed me off.
/rant

Car alarms.
Seriously they serve no other purpose than to annoy everyone in earshot. What are you supposed to do when you hear one other than be annoyed anyway?

I have a few
-Old apple puck mice"I remember those from school, I would bring my own mouse"
-Phones with No removable battery
-Computers with only 1 button mice mainly apple.
-Cheap toy walkitalkies that trample on CB Radio bands.

Windows 7 and all "Next-Gen" consoles.

there are so many good responses here.

the automobile horn - it has a purpose, but it has been corrupted like like slain corrupts language (not looking to start a slain war). people use it to say "hi" to that guy over there surrounded by twenty other guys. people use it impress on the guy in front of them that even though there are cars coming from the other direction, the guy isn't turning left (right for the UK) fast enough. instead of a honk to notify, people will lean on the horn, bang on the horn repeatedly, because instead of saying "hey i'm here, watch what you are doing" people want to say "WTF WTF YOU F'N IDIOT! LET ME STAB YOU WITH THIS CAR HORN OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN!" and of course the single best thing a car horn is good for is annunciating exactly who it is address at. i've been in a car where the driver was using the horn as a percussion instrument. we were in a rural area surrounded by crops, but it was still painful.

car horns are #1

cellphone - as a phone, they barely work as a communication device. true, they transmit noise, and it is sort of intelligible.

i too dislike technology put in place to make life easier, but not the maintenance side to keep it work.

i guess cellphones are the only true technological inventions in my list. the others are just more examples of people misusing technology.

no, i'm not doing an e.e. cumming things. the thought of car horns made want to be the opposite of all caps.

Digital displays, where any knowledge of human factors engineering would suggest that an analog display would better serve. (I'm looking at you, car dashboards.)

BINGO!

It is in fact a male primate engaging in a 'notice me I think I'm dominant' /threat display like when a male gorilla beats his chest.

The motorcycle, for most primitives, is a loud smelly phallic symbol that as a bonus vibrates their genitals as they ride(yes...a form of masturbation)

The proctoscope.

(I know you're clenching ...)

Not only this, when communities stopped chemical weedkilling(for only a short moment) that couldn't be done by the workers, they don't go around weeding with tools, just one tool is acceptable, a killing pistol(-like engin)

On my old Triumph Bonneville, the noise saved me from an accident one night.

I was driving down a four lane street and the pickup beside me started to move into my lane with me in his blind spot. One blip of the throttle and he knew I was there and moved back over.