The Google TV devices were not user-friendly and many tech reviewers wrote that this was best illustrated by the hideous Sony remote. It had 88 separate buttons and controls.

Great idea! For $9.95 per month, subscribers could watch a movie per day at their local cinema. The MoviePass business model was too good to be true.

The kettle was a great design success but a total failure of functionality.

Consumer robotics is a difficult business because the products are expected to work perfectly and cost almost nothing.

Meet ethanol, a renewable fuel made from fermenting corn. The potential solution to both global warming and the dependence on oil imports was something to celebrate.

In 1912, Titanic was the largest and most luxurious passenger ship ever built.

IBM promised to revolutionize healthcare with their famous AI supercomputer Watson. An AI doctor with all the knowledge from all the worlds medical research.

Bang the drum, work that cymbal, but you can only do one thing at a time.

Valkee, the maker of the headset, claimed the technology was able to relieve jet lag, migraines, and combat depression by sending light rays into your brain through your ears.

DivX was a widely hated platform that was hounded to its death by disgruntled consumers who had to buy an expensive DivX player and connect it to their phone line.

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

These plastic gloves allow women to remove tampons without getting blood on their hands and to discreetly dispose of them.

Kent cigarettes thought they struck gold in 1952 when they unveiled the  “greatest health protection in cigarette history”, an innovative new filter called Micronite.

These outdoor game darts had metal spikes, not especially sharp but weighted. And very dangerous.

These wifi-connected buttons could order everything from condoms to cat food. Even toilet paper.

The idea was that people on the go would pay for yet another streaming service to watch short 5 -10 minute episodes on their phones.

Apple USB Mouse was commonly called the "Hockey puck” because of its unusual round shape.

This keyboard was much thinner than earlier designs, but the construction was fragile and unreliable.

The innovative AI technology for improved video calling received good reviews, but the innovation failed because of a lack of trust.