In 1972, Intel entered the business of wearable tech with its acquisition of digital watchmaker Microma. They exited the business in 1977 after realizing marketing a consumer product is completely different from the chip business and requires diffe ...
In 2010, Google TV was big on potential, but short on features, while the software lacked application support and access to some online programming. The software development kit wasn't available to developers that would allow them to bring entertai ...
The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937 in New Jersey. Filled with hydrogen, it caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused ...
Founded in 1998, Boo.com wanted become the largest online sports e-retailer in the world, planning to set up stores in both Europe and America simultaneously. The company spent $135M in venture capital in just 18 months and went out of business in ...
Discontinued in 2008, the Yugo was a small car made in the former nation of Yugoslavia that survives in the American consciousness as the ultimate automotive failure. Poorly engineered, ugly, and cheap, it survived much longer as a punch line for co ...
Lotus 1-2-3 was the state-of-the-artspreadsheet and the standard throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, part of an unofficial set of three stand-alone office automation products that included dBase and WordPerfect, to build a complete busine ...
The Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on April 15, 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southhampton, England to New York City. 1496 of the 2224 passengers died making it the deadliest sinking of a single ship ...
Launched in 1983 and discontinued in 1985, the Coleco Adam computer was heavily criticized upon launch for numerous defects in early units. About 60 percent of Adam owners returned their units because of the defects leading to Coleco filing for ban ...
The 1975-80 AMC Pacer was a key factor in American Motors’ demise as an independent automaker. The Pacer was AMC’s most costly new car of the 1970s. Because of the car's heft it consumed a lot of oil, gas mileage and acceleration was weak, and lon ...
Launched in 2016 and discontinued in 2023, Microsoft HoloLens is an augmented reality/mixed reality headset. It failed because its usefulness never grew over time, while it has a limited field of vision and the virtual objects are only visible in a ...
