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reviewing products foreseen that can be a surprisingly boring job there's a lot of mediocre stuff out there there's only so many ways to describe a boring yet functional product but every once in a while we get products that are truly awful now those are fun reviews too right usually our products are going to fall apart in your hand most of them are good idea is that must have sounded great on paper but they just fell flat in the real world so here are my picks for the worst of the worst some have seen its lowest rated products from 2012 starting off at number five with a two and a half star review these zip buds juiced headphones this is the perfect example of what I'm talking about the idea sounds great earbuds that zip up to prevent cords from tangling together but even at twenty dollars these are some disappointing headphones let's not forget the name it sounds like an embarrassing trip to the emergency room at number four with two and a half stars the Drobo mini now Thunderbolt storage is an overpriced category to begin with but it takes some real cojones to ask $650 for this one you have to supply your own high speed two and a half inch hard drives and even if you max it out you'll be lucky to get four terabytes of total storage and on top of that it's slow you know if you need a relatively compact Thunderbolt raid drive that lights up like Tron and sounds like it's trying to levitate off your desk Drobo has you covered a 50-inch TV comes in at number three with a two star rating it's the Panasonic TCL for 7dt 50 now don't feel too bad for Panasonic they are dominating seen its list of the best five TVs with three killer plasmas but this isn't one of them this is their 50-inch LED LCD and I think they made it just to make the rest of their TVs look better by comparison there's also some poetry to the fact that Panasonic makes both the highest rated and the lowest rated TV on CNET coming in at number two the elgato ITV mobile with a 2 star review ever want to watch over-the-air TV on your iPad me neither but if I did I would expect more than a handful of channels and I would laugh at you said I'd have to pay $100 for the privilege of watching free TV folks little Gatto didn't see it that way we also didn't see that whole lightning port change coming from a mile away so you can't use this on Apple's new products without buying a 30 pin adapter and cementing your status as a total chump and finally coming in at number one and barring a one-star rating the duo games do open ball this is a $60 accessory that gives pinball fans back the physical buttons that are so glaringly absent from the Apple iPad sure there's a couple problems here I mean aside from the fact that you're paying $60 for a hollow wedge of cheap plastic of all the pinball apps out there for the iPad this piece of junk just works with one of them and because the buttons work over bluetooth the actually responds slower than just touching the screen so unless you're a pinball wizard who needs the handicap to keep things interesting you do not want the duo pinball nor it's $40 brother the duo gamer so there you go those are my favorite picks from seeing us worst weighted products of the year more top fives like this visit top 5 cnet.com on donald bell thanks for watching you