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Device only intended to turn itself off
A useless machine or useless box is a device whose only function is to turn itself off. The best-known useless machines are those inspired by Marvin Minsky's
Useless_machine
American cognitive scientist (1927–2016)
Bell Labs in 1952, Minsky proposed a design for a useless machine he called the "ultimate machine". When switched on, a device emerges from it to switch
Marvin_Minsky
Topics referred to by the same term
Useless invention may refer to: An invention that is nonpatentable due to its lack of utility Chindōgu Useless machine Rube Goldberg invention This disambiguation
Useless_invention
Designing a product that is needlessly complicated
Feature creep You aren't gonna need it Planned obsolescence skyTran Useless machine Design by committee Gowing, Margaret. Britain and atomic energy 1939-1945
Overengineering
Computation model defining an abstract machine
Turing machine examples Turing tarpit, any computing system or language that, despite being Turing complete, is generally considered useless for practical
Turing_machine
Concept from Freudian psychoanalytics
The Scorpion and the Frog Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Useless machine Though the Standard Edition of the Works of Freud translates both Instinkt
Death_drive
British singer (born 1986)
albums also achieved chart success. In 2018, Welch released a book titled Useless Magic, a collection of lyrics and poems written by her, along with illustrations
Florence_Welch
Novelty item typically placed on the desk of an office worker
Kinetic sand Lava lamp Magic 8 Ball Newton's cradle Pin Art Stress ball Useless machine Plasma globe Hsiang Cheng 'Sam' Wang (2007) The Investigation of Office
Office_toy
Self-perpetuating system with no other purpose
Boondoggle Circular reasoning Ouroboros Self-fulfilling prophecy Useless machine Virtuous circle and vicious circle Friedman, Norman (1991). Desert
Self-licking_ice_cream_cone
German general-purpose machine gun
from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht
MG_42
Single-serving website
previously "Utterly useless, absolutely brilliant". Mark Sullivan of PC World listed Zombo among the Internet's ten most useless websites, concluding
Zombo.com
Useless structure now preserved as art
named by the Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s. It refers to a useless relic or structure that has been preserved as part of a building or the
Hyperart_Thomasson
2018 book by David Graeber
number (from 20-60%) of all jobs are useless, less than 8% of European workers reported feeling that their job is useless, and those numbers are declining
Bullshit_Jobs
Ellipse-drawing mechanism
Bourke engine John Farey Jr. Hypocycloid Hypotrochoid Tusi couple Useless machine Scott Russell linkage Schwartzman, Steven (1996). The Words of Mathematics
Ellipsograph
Fictional alien race in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Vogons' battle-cry, and counter-argument to dissent, is "resistance is useless!" (cf. "Resistance is futile"). Vogon poetry is described as "the third
Vogon
Canadian comedian and actor (born 1987)
Martin began booking gigs as part of the comedy troupe The Young and the Useless at age 13. At age 14, they started drinking and using illicit drugs. At
Mae_Martin
3rd episode of the 3rd season of Fargo
symbolism of the mysterious useless box Gloria finds, he felt that it "felt targeted: Who would build such a useless machine? Every time you turn it on
The_Law_of_Non-Contradiction
Exercise machine
Weekly. Retrieved 17 May 2023. Hall, Landon (October 10, 2013). "RetroFit: Good, but useless, vibrations". Orange County Register. Retrieved 17 May 2023.
Vibrating_belt_machine
Swiss sculptor (1925–1991)
components Tinguely, Press pour oranges in Louvre Abu Dhabi New Realism Useless machine Rube Goldberg Museum Tinguely in Basel Chapter on Tinguely in Calvin
Jean_Tinguely
Intelligence in machines
Asimov's laws through popular culture, they generally consider the laws useless for many reasons, one of which is their ambiguity. Several works use AI
Artificial_intelligence
Swedish inventor and robotics YouTuber
Katia Pizzi, Giertz's work is the leading contemporary example of the useless machine, a type of artwork created by 20th-century artist Bruno Munari. Giertz
Simone_Giertz
Light machine gun
The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States
Lewis_gun
2005 compilation album by Shai Hulud
Retrospective Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings is a compilation album by hardcore punk band Shai Hulud. It
A_Comprehensive_Retrospective:_or_How_We_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Release_Bad_and_Useless_Recordings
ignorant scientist and judge who is easily swayed by Fernanda Pizazzo's useless machine. Separatists of Saporia are an organization dedicated to destroying
List_of_Tangled_characters
Device able to make copies of itself
factory barges or to be placed in barren desert terrain that was otherwise useless for industrial purposes. The self-replicators would be "harvested" for
Self-replicating_machine
Type of kinetic sculpture
movable skeletons and Bruno Munari created his "Aerial Machine" in 1929 and the "Useless Machines" in 1933, made in cardboard and playful colors. In 1920s
Mobile_(sculpture)
Shell command for writing an input file or stream to standard output
cat for the former operation is just as unintuitive as, say, LISP's cdr. Useless use of cat (UUOC) is common Unix jargon for command line constructs that
Cat_(Unix)
2009 studio album by Andrew Bird
Noble Beast shipped with a companion disc of instrumental songs, entitled Useless Creatures. This collection was made available on Bird's website in early
Noble_Beast
Italian artist and designer (1907–1998)
sculptural works which would unfold in the coming decades, including his useless machines, and his abstract-geometrical works. After World War II Munari disassociated
Bruno_Munari
List of characters appearing in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Retrieved November 18, 2019. "Marvel Cinematic Universe characters who are useless". Looper.com. December 5, 2017. Archived from the original on December
Characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: M–Z
Characters_of_the_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe:_M–Z
Musical artist
The Useless Wooden Toys aka UWT are an electro dance band from Cremona, created by Riccardo Terzi e Gilberto Girardi. They collaborated with Bugo, for
Useless_Wooden_Toys
2010 American film
180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless, or simply 180° South, is a 2010 documentary directed by Chris Malloy that covers the journey of Jeff Johnson
180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless
180_Degrees_South:_Conquerors_of_the_Useless
Two-volume nonfiction book by Lewis Mumford
and political power as a unified community of interpretation rendering useless and eccentric life-enhancing values. Subversion of this authoritarian kingdom
The_Myth_of_the_Machine
First Minister of Scotland from 2023 to 2024
as an accountant. His paternal grandfather worked in the Singer sewing machine factory in Clydebank in the 1960s. Yousaf's mother, Shaaista Bhutta, was
Humza_Yousaf
and the Ham-Hams must find out who sent the letter to Laura. 250 "It's Useless! Zack and his Mom" Transliteration: "Tottoko Akan De! Okan to Sadakichi"
List_of_Hamtaro_episodes
Mechanical machine for arithmetic operations for absolute calculators
de la légitime et nécessaire alliance de la théorie avec l'art" "...a useless piece, perfectly clean, polished and well filed on the outside but so imperfect
Mechanical_calculator
Aircraft developed before the modern aeroplane
between Paris and Beuvry, despite the man-powered propulsive devices proving useless. In January the next year Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries crossed
Early_flying_machines
When Sam says she already got Aunt Hagatha to babysit, Esmeralda feels useless. Larry comes by and says that the dinner is off as client Elliott Norton
List_of_Bewitched_episodes
Home computer and electronics manufacturer
Commodore's new acquisition and the source for its next generation of computers useless. The resulting court case lasted several years. Commodore introduced a
Commodore_International
Difficulties arising when analyzing data with many aspects ("dimensions")
it makes the similarity search in high dimensions difficult and even useless (curse). Zimek et al. noted that while the typical formalizations of the
Curse_of_dimensionality
1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution (Italian: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione [il barˈbjɛːre di siˈviʎʎa osˈsiːa liˈnuːtile
The_Barber_of_Seville
Chinese artificial intelligence company
contrast to standard Buffered I/O, Direct I/O does not cache data. Caching is useless in this case, since each piece of data read is random and is not reused
DeepSeek
something far out of his element – the anaconda. With his usual methods useless to track down this monster, Wade must trek into the anaconda's lair himself
List of River Monsters episodes
List_of_River_Monsters_episodes
Computer code that is never executed
2012-03-10. Retrieved 2020-05-06. [1] Archived 2020-05-20 at the Wayback Machine DO-178B DO-178B Wikipedia/DO-178B. Debray, S. K., Evans, W., Muth, R.,
Dead_code
British musician (born 1961)
third charity gala took place in March 2015. Suggs is a member of the Useless Information Society (founded 1995), a society of journalists, writers and
Suggs
Global conflict from 1939 to 1945
accused Hitler of planning world conquest and ruled out any negotiations as useless, calling for the United States to become an "arsenal of democracy" and
World_War_II
Japanese manga series
978-1-59307-957-4 62. "Idiotic, Useless, and Beautiful Behavior (Beginning)" (Idiotic, Useless, and Beautiful Behavior (前編)) 63. "Idiotic, Useless, and Beautiful Behavior
Eden:_It's_an_Endless_World!
Species of plant
unpalatable nature and is an invasive species that renders pastureland useless, since cattle will starve even in its abundance. It is the source of an
Cymbopogon_nardus
Belgian neo-conceptual artist
that everything in modern life is pointless. The most useless object he could create was a machine that serves no purpose at all, besides the reduction
Wim_Delvoye
15th-century codex in an unknown script
apparently puzzled about this "Sphynx" that had been "taking up space uselessly in his library" for many years. He learned that Jesuit scholar Athanasius
Voynich_manuscript
Trademark jingle used by NBC
by Isaac Hayes (1971) "Twist On The 4th Chime" by Trunks on the album "Useless" (2007) Jingle packages: "NBC Stations" by Edd Kalehoff "It's a New Day"
NBC_chimes
Test of a machine's ability to imitate human intelligence
that we should not be surprised that a philosophical idea turns out to be useless for practical applications. He observes that the philosophy of AI is "unlikely
Turing_test
American daily newspaper
predictions and scorn for polling—having stated that punditry is "fundamentally useless", comparing him to Billy Beane, who implemented sabermetrics in baseball
The_New_York_Times
2018 single by Florence and the Machine
thought that the poem was originally meant for Welch's collection book Useless Magic before becoming a song. "Hunger" was written by Welch, Emile Haynie
Hunger (Florence and the Machine song)
Hunger_(Florence_and_the_Machine_song)
Major World War II battle in the Pacific Theater
Operations William V. Pratt stating that the island was useless to the Army as a staging base and useless to the Navy as a fleet base. The island's airfield
Battle_of_Iwo_Jima
French polymath (1623–1662)
about the philosophy of religion, writing that Descartes' philosophy was "useless and uncertain". He further wrote: "I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his
Blaise_Pascal
British Army corps of 1915–1922
convincingly a belief to hold that the machine gunners were in effect hiding behind the front lines while uselessly firing into the air, making a show instead
Machine_Gun_Corps
bad mortgages in the valley. That will make the Cannonball's services useless. The Shady Rest is going to host a Monte Carlo night as a modest fundraiser
List of Petticoat Junction episodes
List_of_Petticoat_Junction_episodes
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
artificial superintelligence, the mass of the population would become a "useless burden on the system", and the elite would either keep them in a genetically
Ted_Kaczynski
Public transit payment system (1994–2025)
contractor Cubic. Off-the-shelf reader/writers for standard cards are useless to read from or write to MetroCards without mechanical modification and
MetroCard
Hammond in a Porsche Macan Turbo Performance Pack — to prove that they are useless in a series of tests that include timed laps, and a towing race up a mountain
List of The Grand Tour episodes
List_of_The_Grand_Tour_episodes
Electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament
results in a rupture of the filament, rendering the incandescent lightbulb useless. To improve the efficiency of the lamp, the filament usually consists of
Incandescent_light_bulb
window so she can see them. While she is in hospital everyone is feeling useless. To help Molly – they decide to finish building Farmland for her. 313 33
List of A Country Practice episodes (seasons 1–8)
List_of_A_Country_Practice_episodes_(seasons_1–8)
Machine instruction that indicates to a computer to do nothing
required, some such null statement can be used. The null statement is useless by itself, but it can have a syntactic use in a wider context, e.g., within
NOP_(code)
"horrible attempt to cash in on the full-motion-video capabilities of the useless CD-i console". Eurogamer claimed the game to be "little more than a really
List of video games notable for negative reception
List_of_video_games_notable_for_negative_reception
Abrahamic monotheistic religion
"If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless". "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and
Christianity
Japanese manga series
Damekko Dōbutsu (Japanese: だめっこどうぶつ; lit. "Useless Animals") is a Japanese manga series by Noriko Kuwata serialized in Manga Life since the November 2001
Damekko_Dōbutsu
American hip-hop group (1981–2012)
thereafter and was replaced by Horovitz, the guitarist of The Young and the Useless. After achieving local success with the 1983 comedy hip-hop single "Cooky
Beastie_Boys
1978 novel by Yury Dombrovsky
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge (Russian: Факультет ненужных вещей, romanized: Fakultet nenuzhnykh veshchey) is a novel by Yury Dombrovsky about the
The Faculty of Useless Knowledge
The_Faculty_of_Useless_Knowledge
French writer (1850–1893)
the name of slighted French taste, against the erection [...] of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower [...] To bring our arguments home, imagine for
Guy_de_Maupassant
1861–1865 conflict in the United States
economy could no longer supply. The Confederate cotton crop became nearly useless, which cut off the Confederacy's primary source of income. Critical imports
American_Civil_War
and appearing out of nowhere to attack Autobots. Not too smart; would be useless without Megatron's or Starscream's supervision. Has a unique ability to
List of The Transformers characters
List_of_The_Transformers_characters
President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
trade led to an interdependent world that would make war expensive and useless. However, an opposing faction, led by Roosevelt, ridiculed arbitration
Theodore_Roosevelt
Outdoor recreational activity
pocket or which otherwise could be carried on one's person. This kit is useless in these circumstances if it is kept in the backpack that is left in camp
Camping
2008 studio album by Useless ID
Broken Bones is the sixth full-length studio album by Israeli punk band Useless ID. It is the band's first album on the Suburban Home label, and was released
The_Lost_Broken_Bones
2012 film by Rupert Sanders
village populated by women who have disfigured themselves to make themselves useless to Ravenna. The Huntsman learns Snow White's true identity, and leaves
Snow_White_and_the_Huntsman
Holiest day in Judaism
the regrettable behaviors of one's past are naturally recognized as a useless weight holding them back. This recognition triggers a genuine, aching remorse
Yom_Kippur
American comedian and actor (born 1966)
speak up, and, unable to relate to their problems, offers them either useless advice based on his experience or no help at all. Garth – part of Garth
Fred_Armisen
CIA program involving illegal experimentation on human test subjects (1953–1972)
Gottlieb dismissed his entire effort for the CIA's MKUltra program as useless. Files discovered in 1977 containing 700 pages of new information showed
MKUltra
British-Pakistani actor and rapper (born 1982)
July 2016. "Riz Ahmed Trivia: 33 interesting facts about the actor! – Useless Daily: The amazing facts, news & trivia free newsletter!". Uselessdaily
Riz_Ahmed
Social media platform owned by Meta
Sarah (July 2, 2025). "Meta users say paying for Verified support has been useless in the face of mass bans". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 16, 2026. Joon-hyun
Interdisciplinary branch of design and fine arts
different spheres of production. The movement saw individualistic art as useless in revolutionary Russia and thus moved towards creating objects for utilitarian
Graphic_design
Semiconductor light source
above the knee. Nitride-based LEDs have a fairly steep I/V curve and are useless for this purpose. Although LED forward voltage is far more current-dependent
Light-emitting_diode
appeared to work for Misuzu Daimon, so as to help her rid the school of any useless teachers and students. However, it was Headmaster Ryoko Sakurai who ordered
List of Great Teacher Onizuka characters
List_of_Great_Teacher_Onizuka_characters
Cathedral city in the West Midlands, England
Charles II ordered that the city's walls be slighted (damaged and made useless as defences) which was carried out in 1662. In the 18th and early 19th
Coventry
English-held Normandy, the castle's garrison, seeking to reduce the number of "useless mouths", expelled refugees in groups. Initially, the besieging troops allowed
List of incidents of cannibalism
List_of_incidents_of_cannibalism
Decryption of World War II cipher
method became useless, he invented an electro-mechanical device that was dubbed the bomba kryptologiczna, 'cryptologic bomb'. Each machine contained six
Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
Fictional character
taken to some FBI vehicles, but the measures to contain him prove to be useless; Cassius escapes into the desert. The sixth version of Clayface, known
Clayface
Dog breed
News. August 1, 2024. Retrieved May 16, 2025. "XL bully victim calls ban 'useless' as 100 dogs a month destroyed". BBC News. December 19, 2024. Archived
American_Bully
Human losses by participating country
Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians: According to Nazi ideology, Slavs were useless sub-humans. As such, their leaders, the Soviet elite, were to be killed
World_War_II_casualties
Cast of American animated comedy franchise
Danny Smith) is a con man who tricks Peter into spending money on various useless things on many occasions. He was first introduced as Doug but has been
List_of_Family_Guy_characters
Israeli historian and philosopher (born 1976)
will be divided between a superelite of improved humans and a mass of 'useless people'" and that "power is in the hands of those who control the algorithms"
Yuval_Noah_Harari
1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky
eventually realizes the plight of her position and how she will slowly become useless and will descend more and more, until she is no longer wanted by anyone
Notes_from_Underground
Wasurete wa Ikenai Mono o Shiwa ni Kizamu) Lesson 610. "A Machine That's Learned to be Useless is Called a Piece of Junk (Or a Human)" (無駄を覚えた機械を人間という,
List_of_Gintama_chapters
English playwright and actor (1896–1984)
several wounds in close-quarter battle. His left hand was left virtually useless by wounds sustained on the Somme; his legs were riddled with shrapnel;
Arnold_Ridley
Decentralized digital cryptocurrency
2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023. "Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless". The Economist. 30 August 2018. Archived from the original on 4 September
Bitcoin
Island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Spanish colony after Alonso de Ojeda's 1499 expedition. Though labelled "the Useless Island" due to its poor agricultural yield and lack of precious metals
Curaçao
possible in lieu of summoning an actual god. However, she turned out to be useless and she was later abandoned only to be found by Chaldea. When she found
List of Fate/Grand Order characters
List_of_Fate/Grand_Order_characters
relegated to minor support work that looks good on camera, they are at best useless and at worst compound the problem when faced with a genuine emergency.
List_of_The_Boys_characters
Software that translates code from one programming language to another
target processors. Examples of middle end optimizations are removal of useless (dead-code elimination) or unreachable code (reachability analysis), discovery
Compiler
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