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 ...
Launched in 1998 and discontinued in 2002, HP Jornada was HP's personal digital assistant. It had several product issues leading to multiple recalls, while it wasn't as popular as other hand held devices.
In the 1990's, TIL A company made pencils with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" but had to recall them because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"
During a time period in which manufacturers were rushing to produce as many cards as possible to keep up with demand, Fleer became a bit careless with its Bill Ripken 1989 Fleer baseball card. Ripken carved the phrase in the bat. Bill noticed tha ...
In 2024, Meta shut down Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to enable communication among business teams and wider organizations. That marked the end of a ten-year run for the product, which peaked at 7 million paid subscribers. M ...
Released in 1993 since kids liked to customize their pencils with stickers or even their own inscriptions applied via thumbnail. The designer suspected wooden pencils that didn’t look like wood might have an appeal. They offered Yikes! pencils in a ...
Onyx Motorbike went out of business in 2023. The category is super crowded, while most of the frames are not straight, sport mode cuts out frequently, and have trouble hitting 50+ even though they claim 60. The wiring inside them is a complete mes ...
Launched in 2016 and discontinued in 2024, Amazon gave up on the cashier-less "Just Walk Out" technology at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores. New stores will be built without computer-vision-powered surveillance technology, and "the majority" of exis ...
