Although Facit’s management new big changes were happening, they did not invest in development and innovation.

The C5 was a commercial flop. It had poor battery life, lack of weather- proofing and was frustratingly slow.

The expectations for the Segway were huge: »Segway will be to the car, what the car was to horse and cart.«,

The bike was launched with the slogans »We’re pedalling out of the Iron Age!«

The design was considered ugly (many thought the front grill looked like a vagina), and the car was priced far too high.

In 1964 DuPont Corporation introduced Corfam – a synthetic leather substitute..

When girls rotated Growing Up Skipper’s left arm forward, she grew an inch and developed breasts.

Microsoft and Apple have been battling it out in the tech space for decades. But Apple changed the tune with its introduction of the iPod and soon it dominated the music player industry.

The biggest advantage was that the insulin no longer needed to be injected with syringes.

Febreze Scentstories looked like a CD player with CD-like disc inserts that gave off different aromas.

Listed on Time Magazine’s 2010 “50 Worst Inventions”...

This beauty mask from 1999 tones facial muscles with electricity.

The beverage was launched in 2006 and was aimed at adult consumers

In the late 1990s in Sweden, someone thought there had to be a better way to pay than cash. And the Swedish banks thought so, too.

Orbitz soda offered something unique and exciting: small edible balls.

The Shared Girlfriend service rented sex dolls. They were made of high-quality silicon with anatomy...

An early attempt at an all-in-one telephone/email messenger with Internet access.

Colgate launched a line of frozen food in the 1960s. This was a mistake ...

Ketchup in Blastin’ Green, Funky Purple, Stellar Blue, Passion Pink, Awesome Orange, and Totally Teal.

Blockbuster was a chain of home movie and video game rental shops. In 2004, it was an enormous company with over 9,000 stores.