Some ideas are best left on the drawing board. The lesson learned from many of these innovations is that just because you CAN create a new product doesn’t mean that you SHOULD.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
These plastic gloves allow women to remove tampons without getting blood on their hands and to discreetly dispose of them.
These outdoor game darts had metal spikes, not especially sharp but weighted. And very dangerous.
Averaging at around $7,220 per ticket, the music festival attracted the rich and wannabe rich festival-goers.
At the height of the Walkman craze in the early 1980s, Audio Technica debuted the AT-727 Sound Burger, a portable turntable.
This Mobile and ESPN combination promised sports fans deliver all sports all the time in the palm of their hand.
The Google TV devices were not user-friendly This hideous Sony remote had 88 separate button.
Oakley claimed to have created a new product category they called ‘digital music eyewear.’
Modo was a device that displayed information about a city's dining and entertainment options
When girls rotated Growing Up Skipper’s left arm forward, she grew an inch and developed breasts.
Febreze Scentstories looked like a CD player with CD-like disc inserts that gave off different aromas.
Willy's Chocolate Experience promoted with AI images that shown a Willy Wonka world, but delivered an empty warehouse with poor props.
An alternative to Barbie. It wanted to teach little girls compassion and the realities of life for those less fortunate.
This game is was described as a boring and complicated variation of the popular game Monopoly
The French company BIC is best known for their ballpoint pens, which have been produced since the 1950s. Bic for Her are pens designed to »fit comfortably in a woman’s hand
The brand of the iconic American motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is strongly associated with »the biker myth« - the freedom of the open road, strength, and fearlessness.