Thalidomide was a pharmaceutical innovation that caused severe birth defects.

Theranos promised to make blood-testing easier, cheaper and less painful.

Do you sometimes feel nervous, irritable or sad? If you are a woman, then you might suffer from hysteria.

A lobotomy was a surgical procedure to treat psychiatric symptoms by destroying brain tissue in the prefrontal cortex.

The artificial trachea did not work. Macciarini was convicted of clinical misconduct and research fraud. The scandal cost many people their lives

This is not a wheelchair. This is an extraordinary machine that will liberate millions of people.

Psychological debriefing was a new form of psychological treatment introduced to prevent these psychological problems.

In 1985 and launched what was called New Coke. Coca-Cola consumers were furious that the recipe had been changed.

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.