19 TOXIC Tech Fails that will last Forever.
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The video reviews 19 tragic and failed technology products from history, rating each on a scale out of 10 for how badly they failed.
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Answers: What are the most tragic tech fails of all time?
- historic tech failures
- failed smartphones
- failed cryptocurrencies
- failed lifestyle gadgets
- bad tech products
What it concludes
- The CueCat completely misunderstood readers, resulting in a 2/10 fail rating.
- ZTE Hawkeye's adhesive backing and eye tracking features were poorly thought out, resulting in a fail rating.
- Nike Magneto sunglasses lacked temple pieces and relied on magnets, earning a 3/10 fail rating.
- Ayds candy marketed weight loss in the 1930s but became tragically ironic when AIDS emerged in 1981, earning a 3/10 fail rating.
- IKEA's inflatable air sofa blew up with a hairdryer but melted and leaked air, earning a 4/10 fail rating.
- Nintendo Power Glove was a groundbreaking input device for games but had impractical logistics, earning a 4/10 fail rating for 10/10 nightmares on the list scale of tech fails tried by the host throughout history including Mobile ESPN phone costing $300 plus $220/month, Vaporcade vape phone combining two unrelated things poorly, Yik Yak achieving viral anonymous campus engagement before being banned due to extreme bullying, Elio Motors raising 65000 preorders for a three-wheeled car that never delivered, Scribble Pen's color-scanning claims being exposed as a prop scam, Laser Razor's fiber-optic hair burning failing to cut more than one hair at a time, HQ Trivia scaling rapidly before running out of money and awarding pennies, Mixer paying millions to top streamers without building a sustainable community, Skype losing market dominance to Zoom after Microsoft's acquisition, Twitter Peek being able to display only 10 tweets and few words per tweet for $200, Apple's FaceTime bug in 2019 exposing audio and video before call acceptance, Squid Game crypto currency "Squid" executing a classic rug pull scam skyrocketing to $2800 before crashing to zero, and OneCoin raising 15 billion dollars in a pyramid scheme led by Dr Ruja Ignatova who vanished.
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