# Winner of the first Scientific American's "World's Worst Technology Award" is...

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**Created:** [May 1, 2007, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/winner-of-the-first-scientific-americans-worlds-worst-technology-award-is/28608 "2007-05-01T11:53:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/winner-of-the-first-scientific-americans-worlds-worst-technology-award-is/28608/3 "2007-05-01T12:30:54Z")

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If you’re applying for the grant on a mac, you’re probably just trying to waste the government’s money anyway. I believe this “bug” was probably designed in to help weed out the hippy requests.

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