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more on them in a bit technology is ever moving forward but its acceptance is a fickle thing
we are almost crushed with abundance these days so consumers must be able
to be discerning about what technology they want to spend time and money on
even a good idea may have to fall by the wayside if it's marketing correctly or its full potential
can't be realized there have been a number of technologies presented as both innovative and
advanced that just face planted after delivery because society didn't want or need it around
number 10. google glass google was so behind google glass as a new technology that it's almost
stunning how badly they miscalculated the device's appeal it became publicly available in 2014 after
a limited trial run for selected users and people summarily trashed the idea with zero mercy the
idea behind google glass was a very sci-fi yet practical one it was a wearable headset that
looked like a pair of glasses it contained much of the functionality of a smartphone
but instead of having to lift your phone to look at the screen it displayed everything you needed
right before your eyes you can always see how on paper it was considered a great idea what google
didn't foresee or maybe they just underestimated was how much people who didn't want the technology
didn't want other people to have it either if a creep has a cell phone and is recording videos
of you on the subway or maybe of your kids at the park you can at least see them doing it
how would anyone know if someone was filming them with google glass glass was immediately
banned in numerous public places obviously they were not going to be allowed in movie theaters
but restaurants casinos and others followed suit there were privacy concerns dealing with
the potential to record not just video of people but conversations or images of a sensitive nature
legal issues also arose the legality of driving with a pair on became an issue since it could both
distract and obscure vision at least one driver in california got ticketed for it even if you
were a glass fan google's terms expressly forbid you from selling them to someone else essentially
telling you that if you paid for it google still own it everything combined together to ensure
glass was dead in the water google still makes glass and you can still buy them they're pretty
much exclusively for the business sector these days but from the hype to where it is now has been
a stunning drop there's a reason you've seen few if any people wearing them in the last five years
9. segway the youth of tomorrow will never fully appreciate what a spectacular failure the segway
turned out to be to look at them today you might not understand the issue absolutely sure but
they're like a scooter maybe they're fun to ride so what's the big deal well context is everything
when segway was introduced people said it would literally change the world that's as bold as bold
gets and it was very very wrong to start with the segway was a two-wheeled scooter it was unveiled
on good morning america after a ton of hype people had no idea what it might be but remember
change the world was in people's heads harvard business school paid an advance of 250 000
for a book about it before they even knew what it was steve jobs said it was as significant
as the personal computer and jeff bezos said that it was revolutionary imagine hearing
that and then seeing a segway for the first time diane sawyer infamously said i'm tempted to say
that's it upon first seeing the segway when it was unveiled on the show and that's how pretty
much everyone felt the company predicted 10 000 sales per week that never happened by the time
the company stopped production in 2020 they had sold 140 000 units the segway was the butt of
jokes almost immediately george bush famously fell off one they were banned in several cities after
people lost control the most famous one ever was the ride of paul blart mall cop with a 5 000 price
tag and no actual problem to seoul few people wanted them people were happy walking or driving
as they always did no one needed an overpriced slow-moving invention that could knock you over
to bridge the gap 8. internet fridges a smart fridge is a lot like a smartphone with one key
difference it doesn't fit in your pocket internet enabled refrigerators were the next big thing back
in the year 2000. that's when the first smart fridge was introduced by lg and with a 20 000
price tag who could resist it well that would be everybody everybody could resist it it's more than
20 years later and the smart fridge is still a thing many companies make them now but they
still don't make up a massive market share one of the real roadblocks stopping smart fridges from
catching on is how potentially useless they are that's not just hyperbole or baseless critique
many companies don't continue to support the technology think of how often you need to update
your phone these days if not with hardware at least with software that's not happening with
smart fridges samsung only offers software support for two years a new samsung smart fridge will
cost between two thousand and five thousand dollars depending on the model that's a big
investment for something that won't guarantee its usability outside of two years the market is just
now picking up steam more than two decades later that's fueled in a large part by integration smart
fridges come with alexa and nest compatibility and more the features are less about a fridge and more
about that home hub interconnectivity that sees every part of your home becoming connected and for
people who want it the technology is now making it viable if expensive and potentially unreliable
in the future but up until this point it was simply not a thing that people wanted 7. qr codes
qr codes are pretty ubiquitous out in the world you'll find them on ads and product packaging
all the time but how often do you actually use them they were a hard sell for users
when they were first adopted because there was no standardization if you saw a qr code in 2012 there
was a good chance that you couldn't scan it even if you wanted to most phones didn't include qr
scanners and not all qr software was reliable on a basic level a qr code is a more advanced
type of barcode scan it and you can get info on a product no one really cared though in fact if not
for the covert 19 pandemic the qr code may have faded away for good but because of the changing
nature of business the codes have seen a slight surge in popularity that said the numbers are
maybe not the most encouraging according to statistics 11 million households scanned a qr code
in 2020 compared to the population at large that's still somewhat limited but apparently good for qr
the reason qr saw a surge during covid was that it allows for hands-free information gathering
scan an item and you don't need to pick it up to learn about it that popularity might
continue post-covered but no one can say for sure but prior to the pandemic the technology was
bordering on being obsolete because it's mostly unnecessary anything you can learn from a qr code
you can learn with a quick google search in a more user-friendly manner number 6. queebie creeby was
said to be a new and exciting way to consume video content it was combining big name hollywood talent
with the quick entertainment form of a youtube video shows would be between 5 and 10 minutes for
viewers on the go the company raised 1.75 billion dollars in investment money they had amazing names
on board like jennifer lopez chrissy teigen steven spielberg andy samberg idris alba and kevin hart
the list really did just keep going and going this was not a mid-tier or b-movie scenario at all this
was the elite of hollywood all in one place and yet it failed in under a year they had projected
over seven million subscribers in the first few months when they shut down they're just five
hundred thousand qibi was plagued with problems from the get-go the company blamed the covert 19
pandemic saying it had changed how people consumed media now there may have been one factor but there
were clearly others to start the platform and content was seriously mocked online there was
no real buzz but there were a lot of jokes queebie had made it impossible to share videos or screen
caps of the shows which is a major way word of mouth spreads on social media so they'd locked
down their own ability to generate buzz when people did get a chance to see the shows to
put not too fine a point on it many of them were awful even with all the talent involved
the shows looked and felt rushed few garnered any true praise for quality many of their daily
shows did things like recap sports highlights or jokes from the late shows the night before
the same stuff you can see on youtube or facebook every day for free cuibi only worked on mobile
devices if you wanted to stream on your tv it just wouldn't happen the company added that feature
later but it was likely already too late they were committed to the idea that it was to be used
on the go even when they knew people weren't on the go the company did almost no advertising and
their biggest ad which aired during the super bowl came months before the platform was even available
all around they made bad choices and they paid the price for it in the end now if you want to
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five juicero if you were on the internet back in 2016 you may have been lucky enough to catch the
blink and you'll miss it hilarity of the juicero it was a 400 juicer that was being supported
by the likes of dr oz and gwyneth paltrow not to mention 120 million dollars in backer investments
it was meant to be a convenient and cutting edge way to be healthy like keurig was for coffee so
the juicero would be for juice all you needed to do was put their pattern to juice packets in the
press push a button and let juice squeeze out into a glass the machine's maker bragged about how it
could produce four tons of pressure right away people noticed a problem you had to buy packets
of pre-diced fruits and veggies to get your juice the machine was essentially just a glorified press
and soon someone posted videos of themselves just squeezing the juice out of the packet by hand
the manufacturer counted by saying that yes you could do that but the machine was also connected
to the internet and it could warn you if the fruit sack was expired thus preventing you from drinking
an out of date product then people said that the expiry date was literally printed on the bag
so there was no real reason to have a juicero it just squeezed fruit 4. monowheel bikes these
have existed for years in one form or another you can see the patent filed for the design
of one from 1869. so why aren't they a thing yet well there are a few factors but the biggest one
is the funniest one and that's gerbilling have you ever seen a gerbil running on a little wheel
in a cage and at some point either he gains too much momentum or maybe slips and the wheel keeps
spinning but the gerbil is no longer running and it's stuck to the wheel spinning round and round
well that happens to people on monowheel bikes when applied force overcomes gravitational force
the person in the middle of the monowheel frame becomes a desperate and powerless gerbil this can
happen when the bike breaks suddenly or even when they accelerate too fast the bikes also have very
shaky stability and there's a giant obstruction right in front of you when you ride one which also
limits their repeal but once you hit the gerbil thing it's hard to worry about well anything else
3. 3d tv 3d movies were a big gimmick back in the day when you had to wear those red and blue
glasses but it was never more than a novelty because it didn't really work very well and it
made the rest of the movie look awful modern 3d is a lot better no coloured glasses and a lot
more seamless experience not everyone likes it and it costs a premium to see films that way but after
avatar came out and blew people away it became a staple of big hollywood blockbusters it was so
big in fact that the 3d tv tried to capitalize on it why wait for the movies when you could
have 3d at home a new 3d tv would cost around two thousand dollars you also needed a blu-ray player
to handle 3d movies and then you needed the 3d glasses that cost around 100 a pair and everyone
needed an individual pair to watch the tv you also had to sit directly in front of the tv because it
didn't work at angles most movies aren't shot in 3d and some are just converted to 3d afterwards
for some seen so users were investing a lot for a limited experience all in all not enough people
liked or cared about the technology to keep it afloat with all of the costs involved
2. picture phone if you watched any sci-fi created from the 1950s through to the 1990s or so
you saw a picturephone in one form or another it seemed like the logical evolution of a telephone
as radio gave way to tv so would talking on a phone give way to looking at someone on your view
screen star trek famously put everyone on screen to chat so when a t invented the picture phone
in 1964 of course it seemed like the wave of the future the picturephone launched for real in 1970
and quickly went nowhere the cost was absolutely insane by anyone's standards the service was 160
a month in 1970 money or 1 100 adjusted for inflation today there was also a permanent fee
after the first half hour at d predicted that they'd make a billion dollars by 1980. they
managed to sell 453 phones in chicago and 32 in pittsburgh by 1972. the company had been aiming
for 50 000 units by 1975. they were clearly not on track the phone failed because no one else had one
those 32 people in pittsburgh probably didn't all know each other so most of the time your thousand
dollars a month phone was just a regular phone then there was that one thousand dollars a month
they ended up dropping the cost to 75 a month but that still works out to over five hundred dollars
with inflation one of the biggest issues with the picture phone is an issue we still see today with
things like zoom or skype most people don't want to be seen on the phone maybe you're in bed or
in the bathroom or you're just not looking your best you don't want to get ready to be seen
on a call number one virtual reality launched by nintendo in 1993 the virtual boy was a virtual
reality headset on which you could play a limited number of games it was an amazing
concept with poor execution it was expensive it looked bad and it made people feel sick all in
all it was a marketing bomb but surely vr was going to catch on one day if you've been online
since about 2010 you've probably heard all the time that vr is just about to take off facebook
bought into this heavily with the oculus rift that cost them two billion dollars back in 2014.
years later and statistics still indicate it's poised to take off at any time globally the vr
gaming market is worth 22.9 billion dollars that seems like a lot but on the other hand the global
gaming market is worth over 150 billion dollars so vr is still a small portion is the future of
er coming well probably but it's hard to say because it's looked that way for years this
is very possibly a case of technology arriving before its time but the fact is still nearly 30
years after the virtual boy debut vr is still not a dominant factor in gaming for many years
vr was an expensive proposition it was thousands of dollars to buy just a single headset costs are
somewhat cheaper now but there's more market saturation you can choose oculus playstation
valve htc and more at least console gaming is still mainly just microsoft versus sony with
a little nintendo added in for spice vrtec keeps updating making old tech obsolete and
a kind of risky investment as well many people just don't like wearing a pair of glasses that
can get sweaty and block their view of everything else not to mention crushing their hair it's fun
for some but not all it's likely vr will only ever be a niche market compared to standard gaming you
also need to clear space to play vr games and people and pets can't just walk around you for
fear of getting smacked by accident this isn't a sit-and-play experience the technology isn't quite
up to traditional gaming standards either so sure one day vr may really be the next big thing but
don't count on it anytime soon so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did please
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