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.
Pinky gloves
These plastic gloves allow women to remove tampons without getting blood on their hands and to discreetly dispose of them.
Jarts Lawn Darts
These outdoor game darts had metal spikes, not especially sharp but weighted. And very dangerous.
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.