Made from environmentally friendly paper, nuSpoon was developed as a green alternative to plastic spoons.

This rechargeable foot file buffs away hard skin in minutes, leaving you with beautifully soft feet. Consumers love the device. The problem was that it isn’t profitable.

When Kodak invented the digital camera back in 1975 they didn’t know that it would ultimately lead to their bankruptcy.

Video 2000 took too long to develop, suffered from high production costs

This futuristic media format offered much better video quality than the VCR

The Newton was an innovative idea with immature technology - an incomplete product launched far too early.

Toshiba failed to get enough support from the major film studios and retailers and lost almost 1 billion dollars.

This classic story demonstrates that technical excellence and being first to market is not enough.

This digital audio format worked just like a CD - only it was smaller and more convenient.

An expensive Super Bowl ad, centered around a lovable sock puppet.

Imagine a vinyl record that you could also watch.

The N-Gage was not a failure of ideas - it was a failure of implementation.

The gigantic online retailer Amazon had high expectations when they attempted to enter the smartphone market.

This extremely short-lived mobile phone was an attempt to make a cool phone for teenagers and other social media addicts.

It was supposedly an environmentally friendly biodegradable bottle.

The TB-303 was an analog synthesizer that flopped.

Researchers in the early German polymer labs occasionally left a Bunsen burner lit over the weekend.