Google Sony Remote
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.
Movie Pass
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.
Philippe Starck Hot Bertaa
The kettle was a great design success but a total failure of functionality.
Social Robots
Consumer robotics is a difficult business because the products are expected to work perfectly and cost almost nothing.
Corn Ethanol
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.
IBM Watson
IBM promised to revolutionize healthcare with their famous AI supercomputer Watson. An AI doctor with all the knowledge from all the worlds medical research.
Valkee Human Charger
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.