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counting down our picks for the top 10
failed technologies of the 2000s yoyo
maws playing and
this is great for this list we'll be
looking at emerging technologies and
products that crashed and burned in the
early 21st century do you wish any of
these had succeeded tell us in the
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number 10
3d television we're excited that we have
an opportunity
to be the company that truly gets 3d
right there was a time when 3d
entertainment was restricted to cheesy
special effects augmented by red and
blue paper glasses as stereoscopic
technology emerged a far better 3d movie
experience also arrived with that kim
attempts to bring that experience into
the home unfortunately it was a perfect
storm for a massive fail it started with
a lack of cohesion amongst tv
manufacturers when it came to home-based
technology smart is turning 2d
to 3d glasses were not always compatible
with every 3d tv and when they did work
it was not at all the same as being in a
theater from there the sheer cost of it
all pushed 3d television off the
proverbial cliff
number nine niche social networks the
whole point of today's social media is
that they appeal to a broad audience
what a user consumes from a given
platform varies but social media
networks thrive on catering to just
about every interest cool photos and
post a comment the 2000s gave birth to
some unique social networks that tried
to go niche instead such as ping daily
booth friend feed and many others i can
make a comment
or just let someone know that i liked
what they shared as unique as they may
have been the same ideals that birthed
them were also their undoing while
already dealing with a smaller user base
they simply couldn't compete with those
who would become the big fish
someone actually asked me where i got it
so i sent her a link number eight
windows me microsoft windows 95 may have
changed desktop computing forever but it
was windows 98 that really impressed
their user base a massive upgrade for
hardware compatibility it was
microsoft's first real os to embrace the
internet so it's no surprise they wanted
its successor to be even more impressive
unfortunately windows me or millennium
edition was a colossal failure that was
swiftly replaced by windows xp a year
later in 2001. xp lasted for many years
as the replacement for windows 98 but it
seemed the company hadn't learned from
its mistakes because the entire cycle
was repeated when the maligned windows
vista was released number seven
rapid blood tests every person should
have the ability to get that type of
test organ transplants antibiotics and
even vaccinations have shown how much
medical technology has evolved over the
years each time a new breakthrough is
made it opens up the door to countless
new possibilities with so many diagnoses
dependent on accurate blood readings
there were attempts to try and hasten
the testing process being able to get
accurate results much faster would have
pushed diagnostic technology into a new
generation alas it was not meant to be
the results need to be precise and
accurate and that's where the story of
theranos starts to crumble the biggest
player in this space theranos went out
of business when they couldn't deliver
on what they promised this later
resulted in a highly public trial and
conviction of their ceo elizabeth holmes
the disgraced theranos founder and ceo
found guilty on four of 11 counts in her
landmark silicon valley fraud case
number six various optical disk formats
in the 1990s cds replaced tape cassettes
but piracy concerns led to the
development of a new kind of optical
disk called data play released to
consumers in 2002. it featured a digital
rights management system that won its
support from the recorded music industry
however they didn't catch on and fizzled
out a similar story befell hd dvds in
the late 90s dvds began replacing vhs
for movies and television hd dvds were
developed by toshiba to be the next big
thing welcome to hd dvd instead blu-ray
came out on top and hd dvds were soon
forgotten in more recent years streaming
services have largely replaced cds
anyway lay something
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number five
miniature netbooks
remember netbooks these were essentially
scaled down smaller versions of a laptop
in the 2000s several companies
experimented with the idea of ultra
mobile pcs you press it once and the
product comes on you press it again the
product goes off remember this was
before smartphones so many organizations
were trying to find a way to make
computing more mobile devices like the
palm folio sony vios ux and even samsung
q1 tries to claim this space in the
market its battery life though is a
rather pitiful two and a half hours
their attempts were undermined the
moment the ipad hit the world both apple
and android's devices would supersede
the mini pc making it a doomed
technology
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number four
smart glasses
even before google glass came and went
other attempts were made to give us
high-tech glasses the user can have the
100 range of view while watching a 3.8
inch screen located 50 centimeters ahead
how about a wearable dvd player or maybe
you'd like a pair of shades that help
you resemble a borg from star trek at
very close proximity so it's the same as
looking at a monitor on your desktop
whether it was trying to put a computer
on your face or simply to provide a
means of consuming media attempts at
developing smart glasses have failed to
catch on clunky designs terrible
interfaces and the worst kind of fashion
fails have doomed this trend at least so
far tap on a photo to share it and
choose one of your friends
number three segways when the segway was
introduced in 2001 some thought it would
usher in a new era of personal
transportation technology thanks for
joining us for this webinar to launch
our new product the segway pt sc we'd
replace the horse and buggy with cars a
century ago and now it was time for
another revolution dean cayman's concept
did get people interested in new ways of
moving but the technology of the time
never took off instead we found
companies like segway failing to appeal
to the mass market and barely surviving
in niche corners it however wasn't a
complete failure the interest in
personal transporters did eventually
inspire the likes of e-scooters and
one-wheels
number two
the original social media networks now
anyone remember bibo it was a social
networking site that became big or
big-ish shortly before facebook then
took the world by storm social media is
now deeply intertwined with our lives
but it wasn't always so the 2000s saw
the internet become more and more of a
mainstay in people's lives now able to
connect across the globe easily many
attempts were made to engage users in
online communities this gave birth to
the likes of myspace friendster and
similar websites all trying to do the
same thing they did manage to achieve
some success but ultimately it was
facebook that took over making its
forerunners obsolete others have tried
to compete but few have stood the test
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number one
app specific hardware the iphone didn't
come out until 2006 and apps weren't
really a thing until 2008 that meant
that applications like twitter or other
online services were typically only
available from a computer that didn't
however stop some companies from trying
to launch app specific hardware devices
ever heard of a twitter peak or how
about microsoft kin kendra knew about it
right away both were attempts to make
mobile devices for specific apps or
certain types of apps only this type of
hardware was essentially dead on arrival
as the birth of the smartphone
supplanted everything that had come
before it one of the biggest downsides
to the twitter peak is that you can't
see the full 140 character message do
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