Most loathsome technology award

I hate leaf blowers, I hate car alarms, and I really hate unsilenced motorbikes, particularly Harley Davidsons driven round and round my neighborhood late at night.

Fortunately there is a cure for the former - the electric zero-emissions (potentially, if your volts are generated by clean renewables) leaf blower. I'm hoping that one of the consequences of spiralling gas prices will be less desire for people to santer around their yards blowing bucks worth of gas instead of blowing a few calories pushing a broom or rake.

As for car alarms and Harleys, I'm still waiting for the cure. Maybe people will become so deaf from their boom-da-da-boom stereos that they can't hear either no matter how loud they are. All indications are that the day might not be too far off after all.