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

A total of 66 satellites were required at a cost of $5 billion.

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

Degrees in real estate, asset management, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation...

Like many of the products at the Museum of Failure, this one was a bad idea from the very beginning

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

Everyone hated poor Bob.

Google tried to create the ultimate communication tool.

The UroClub looks like an ordinary golf club, but it is a cleverly disguised urinal.

Oakley claimed to have created a new product category they called ‘digital music eyewear.’

The Polavision instant video camera system was a huge disaster.

Imagine a vinyl record that you could also watch.

This over-engineered machine was completely useless.

This super absorbent tampon's slogan was “it even absorbs the worry.”

Swedish newspapers described the site as »a blurry version of hell.«

Marketed as a revolutionary technology this was a cat-shaped scanner

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

The TwitterPeek is so dumb it makes my brain hurt.

Don’t you just hate getting finger smudges on your smartphone?

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