Microsoft Tay
This clever AI chatbot was designed to engage and entertain young Americans with playful conversation.
Fyre Festival
Averaging at around $7,220 per ticket, the music festival attracted the rich and wannabe rich festival-goers.
SnapChat Spectacles
These Spectacles recorded short videos for the Snapchat video sharing platform.
Sound Burger
At the height of the Walkman craze in the early 1980s, Audio Technica debuted the AT-727 Sound Burger, a portable turntable.
Mobile ESPN
This Mobile and ESPN combination promised sports fans deliver all sports all the time in the palm of their hand.
Grass skis
Grass skiing were originally developed as a new way for alpine skiers to train during summer.
Honda Pacific Coast 800
The futuristic Honda PC800 was a misunderstood motorcycle. Perhaps this was because it was a motorcycle built for non-motorcycle riders.
Spruce Goose
Built out of birch wood, it weighed in at over 400,000 pounds and cost some $22 million dollars. In today’s money that would be over $250,000,000.00 per plane!
Amopé Foot File
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.
Kodak Digital Camera
When Kodak invented the digital camera back in 1975 they didn’t know that it would ultimately lead to their bankruptcy.
Nike Magneto
They required gluing a magnet to your head so the eyewear would clip on to the magnets.
Logbar Ring
The company raised nearly a million dollars on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Vasa Warship
The Vasa was dangerously top heavy and unstable, but she was impatiently ordered out to sea.
Philips Video 2000
Video 2000 took too long to develop, suffered from high production costs