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Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Google Glass

novato1995 , Tim Reckmann Report

Final score:

228points

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CaptainWolfy125 3 years ago

It just looks like a glass in front of her eye

24points

FairMiddle7 , Gwydion M. Williams Report

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online 2020

Final score:

218points

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CaptainWolfy125 3 years ago

Dude heavily guarded from covid

48points

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online The Segway. It was supposed to change the way everyone lived. The invention of the century or something like that. A really big deal.

xxzzxxvv , David McKelvey Report

Final score:

212points

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

have a go of one- loads of fun, if a little dangerous

35points

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Airship travel. These were the next, awesome way to travel long distances; in fact the spire on top of the Empire State Building was meant as an anchoring point for airships.

The Hindenburg kind of put a damper on it, though

Creative_Waltz_9462 , Unknown Report

Final score:

192points

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

they are becoming popular again

40points

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Google+ was supposed to be the answer to Facebook

Puzzleheaded-Art-469 , Unknown Report

Final score:

189points

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ethan simpson 3 years ago

whats google+???

98points

colin_staples , Wikimedia Commons Report

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online 3D TV

Final score:

182points

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Aurelia! 3 years ago

why would you want to feel like YOU are getting attacked by zombies every time you watch the walking dead? The point is to enjoy OTHER PEOPLE getting attacked by zombies.

105points

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online The European Super League.

Relevant-Door1453 , Paul Report

Final score:

176points

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elStiJneriNO 3 years ago

it's had it's day ... almost

52points

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Hoverboards? I remember in a span of 3 months everyone had them and showed them off and then they just disappeared.

tashasei , JrTech Report

Final score:

164points

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Shelby P 3 years ago

because they break down so easily and quickly after purchase

65points

dont_dox_me-bro , Frederik Obermaier Report

#10

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online The Panama Papers

Final score:

158points

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

this is on Netflix. Check out 'The Laundromat'

35points

NuclearBreadLauncher , Wikimedia Commons Report

#11

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online The area 51 raid.

Final score:

156points

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Chillace 3 years ago

ah i remember me and my friends were joking about going there even though we were like 1000 miles away

41points

#12

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Mini disc

Bluedogan , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

153points

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

I loved these. MP3 killed them

32points

#13

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online This one might be a bit obscure just because I've only ever met one other person familiar with it, but Google's Project Ara modular smartphone was looking like it could've been the end all be all of smartphones.

Based off the Phonebloks idea of having a Lego-like hot-swappable module phone, the idea was that you could switch out any components of the phone on the fly. Camera, fingerprint scanner, even different quality screens. Conceptually, it really looked like it could take over the phone market, as it would lead to people not having to buy whole new phones anymore, but rather replacement or upgraded parts to a phone they already liked, thereby reducing costs and increasing utility.

You don't want a phone with 5 cameras that inflate the cost unnecessarily? Just buy a one camera module. You want a 1440P Super Amoled screen to replace your 720P regular screen? Buy one and swap it in.

However, like many Google projects, it died off for myriad reasons and the longstanding era of $1000 dollar smartphone slabs lived on.

ShartinMyKrelis , Maurizio Pesce Report

Final score:

145points

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JLH 3 years ago

As a PC guy, this was the holy grail, but noooooo, we can't have nice things.

47points

-eDgAR- , Felix Wong CC BY-SA 4.0 Report

#14

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Windows phones.

Final score:

145points

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ARandomPerson 3 years ago

so true

22points

having_a_nosey , Wikimedia Commons Report

#15

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online What ever happened to those curved televisions? I remember seeing one on an advert a few years back bit havent seen or heard about them since.

Final score:

128points

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tomruns12 3 years ago

They are still out there and someone what popular with videophiles but IMO its just a gimmick to make TV's more expensive.

49points

#16

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online The "Dark Universe" cinematic universe, starting with 2017's THE MUMMY.

JSanzi , imax Report

Final score:

119points

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Toko Danganronpa 3 years ago

Not a bad idea entirely to be fair

27points

Th3Cooperative , Wikimedia Commons Report

#17

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Asbestos

Technically it was a hit! Right until it flopped when people figured out the whole 'inhaling rockfibers is not healthy' thing...

Final score:

116points

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GirlFriday 3 years ago

It is still one of the most effective insulations and flame retardants of all time. It is just that whole "poking holes in your lungs" thing that killed it.

81points

#18

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Dip N Dots...

Been the "Ice Cream Of The Future" for 40 years now it seems.

T-Rex3131 , newwavegurly Report

Final score:

113points

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Mifa 3 years ago

To be fair Dip N Dots were luxury items in elementary school. I remember begging my friends for money on field trips so I could get one.

57points

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#19

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online McDonald's pizza.

BuckNutley , merfam Report

Final score:

110points

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CaptainWolfy125 3 years ago

What... they have pizza now

57points

#20

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Xbox Kinect

mr_bigbadjas , Jung-nam Nam Report

Final score:

106points

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Chillace 3 years ago

aaah memories. i remember they were trtying to be lik the wii

26points

#21

Lazer discs the size of records.

RootbeerEyedDog Report

Final score:

101points

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Tim Haight 3 years ago

I remember those. Few places sold them. Everyoine sold and rented VHS tapes. And people could program their VCR to tape their favorite show.

14points

#22

QR Codes.

After so many years, they're finally getting some traction during Covid. I wonder if it will last.

Quesabirria Report

Final score:

86points

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Shelp 3 years ago

Right! Nobody ever saw the point of those

15points

#23

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online HD DVD

Still remember half the movies being blue and the others red.

BigMilk0 , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

78points

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Matt Du 3 years ago

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15points

#24

Amazon’s shopping buttons. They pushed really hard for those and I never saw the point.

GarrettSLB Report

Final score:

78points

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Kyla Fierro 3 years ago

I feel like I should know what this is...

32points

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#25

The 2010 live action avatar: the last air bender movie

agentjakethedog Report

Final score:

77points

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T. 3 years ago

That movie is so bad it's still hurting.

65points

#26

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online At the time video calling with your phone completely flopped because 3G couldn't support it. There was so much advertising about this thing that was meant to be huge but the tech really didn't work yet. But it did blow up later on with 4G, better phones, wifi in more public spaces.

clockworkapple14 , Karl Baron Report

Final score:

75points

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Andrew Gibb 3 years ago

video calling is doomed to fail. I have to admit that zoom and skype are tedious.People like to do other things while speaking to others, which is why people still phone each other.

30points

#27

Hydrogen cars were a promising new form of motorized vehicle. They were supposed to be incredibly good for the environment, emitting only water as the exhaust. They exist, but not like how some people imagined. I was a pretty big hydrogen car believer at the time. There are some hydrogen stations, but mostly centered around California. Thing is that the hydrogen is quite expensive and not very efficient compared to smaller engines, hybrids, and EV’s. The hydrogen is also somewhat inefficient to produce, store, and distribute as well.

You can actually get a hydrogen car though, they’re out there. The Toyota Mirai is a really good example. Out of all hydrogen cars, that one is definitely most popular. In fact, Toyota pays for $15,000 worth of hydrogen in your first few years of ownership since it’s so expensive. This means that for your first 3-ish years of owning one, you might not have to pay a penny in fuel. As you can see I’m still a hydrogen advocate. Don’t expect to be able to take it very far from your nearest hydrogen station though.

Yung_Onions Report

Final score:

74points

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Ray Heap 3 years ago

Cars like the Honda Hindenburg were doomed to crash and burn.

28points

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#28

Here Are 30 Things That Were Supposed To Be The Next Big Thing, But Ended Up Forgotten, As Shared By People Online Elizabeth Holmes.

DudeFromSaudi , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

70points

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

Read "Bad Blood." She not only conned hundreds of people, she single-handedly set back the credibility of women in the tech industry.

26points

#29

The Wii U

Leontetops123 Report

Final score:

67points

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Romery Wells 3 years ago

YES. i still have my Wii U pad and all the acceseries to this day. and they work perfect

28points

#30

hat streaming service that lasted like two months. ‘Qubi’ or ‘Qupi’ I think?

Even bad timing aside (a mobile based streaming service at a time when no one could really leave their house) the marketing was just horrible. I saw ads for it for nearly a week before I realized it was a new video streaming service, and by that point was so annoyed by the ads untrusting everything I didn’t care at all, just out of spite. Also I mean it was just YouTube you have to pay for and got worse content.

EDIT: it was Quibi. It made so little impact I couldn’t recall at first.

Disreiley Report

Final score:

64points

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surprised pikachu 3 years ago

oh my gosh yes! the ads didn't even really tell you what it was.

19points

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DramaDoc 3 years ago

Surprised no one said 'Fyre Festival'... LOL

32points

Sista of the moon 3 years ago

I WAS GONNA SAY THAT

5points

GirlFriday 3 years ago (edited)

Remember those robot pets? They were supposed to be the wave of the future. It was an advanced Furby that you could teach tricks and maybe to speak.

23points

Nerds All the Way Down 3 years ago

I do remember that! That's the only thing i recognize tho.

2points

Tim Haight 3 years ago

Hair in a can - Hyped breathlessly on off-hour infomercials, spray-on hair is supposed to cover up bald spots. In practice, the can emits a fine powder that ends up looking a little better than if you had used a can of spray paint hairinacan...39d94c.jpg

11points

Becky Samuel 3 years ago

This is in everyday usage for people on camera. Hardly a failed product.

2points

Bonnie Walsh 3 years ago

Oddly enough it's kinda still around and wildly popular... 'hair in a can' tho haha was that a real name used?! I work with haircare products and all the major beauty distributors have some sort of little spray cannister. The difference is that these are not for covering up balding in men, they're used to cover up roots with women.

0points

Nudge 3 years ago

oh that sounds horrifying

0points

Tim Haight 3 years ago

Released at the height of the tech boom in the late 1990s, the CueCat was a massively expensive failure. Millions of the cat-shaped bar-code scanners were produced and shipped for free across the U.S., in hopes that people would use them to scan specially marked bar codes to visit Internet sites. (How this was easier than a typing a link, the company never did answer.) Despite a much ballyhooed launch, with CueCat codes printed in Wired and BusinessWeek, consumers never got into the idea of reading their magazines next to a wired cat-shaped scanner, and the CueCat became little more than a high-tech paperweight. cuecat-608...1eb66c.jpg

8points

M O'Connell 3 years ago

Their software no longer works, but if you happen to have one of the devices, there is a driver available that lets you use it as an ordinary text-entry barcode scanner. There's a bookstore by me that uses one at checkout.

4points

John G 3 years ago

Would be better with some pictures to accompany the items

4points

Jan Jansen 3 years ago

Anyone remember the millennium bug?

4points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Good old Y2K! Yep.

2points

Nevits Yibble 3 years ago

TiVo

4points

chi-wei shen 3 years ago

What about Youtube Premium? It's still not big and hopefully, it never will be.

3points

Moin Syed 3 years ago

Lots of people use youtube premium

0points

Spork420 3 years ago

Those community bikes or scooters or whatever they were that showed up by the hundreds in cities a few years ago and littered every corner. Those came and went real fast.

3points

AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

Those are still all over california but I think everyone realizes how much they cost to up keep etc. plus they were getting stolen.

2points

bill marsano 3 years ago

They're all over Manhattan and Brooklyn right now, more's the pity. Also v. popular in Paris.

1point

Tim Haight 3 years ago

Spokane, WA has the lime scooters in the summer.

1point

David Taylor 3 years ago

These are everywhere in the UK at the moment, boris bikes I get, they're brilliant but these scooters just seem to litter the place, i live in a little village and we have them here! Why? It takes me 10 mins to walk from one end of the village to the other!

0points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Oh we (nz) are so small we have been seeing these appearing the last few years! I'm glad to hear they will go away (I hope!)

0points

Alex Little 3 years ago

No-one mentioned the Sinclair C5? Although its going back quite a few years, to the mid-80's

2points

Anna Banana 3 years ago

No mention of the Fyre Festival?

2points

Shane S 3 years ago

Push-to-Talk cell phones. Basically cell phone walkie talkies.

1point

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

I forgot about those

1point

bill marsano 3 years ago

4-track tape players for cars. Quadraphonic stereo. Both 1970s.

1point

ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago

VR doesn't seem to take of as they imagined it.Not saying people aren't using them...

1point

RedPandasStandUprightWithPawsUpToLookIntimidating 3 years ago

Sinclair C4

0points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Flexplay CD.

0points

Lumps 3 years ago

Microsoft Zune!

0points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

WireCard

0points

Joe Alcocer 3 years ago

Anybody remember the RadioShack CueCat's :')

0points

IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

MP3 players

0points

Dee Pond 3 years ago

Those are still a really big thing, they're just called smart phones now.

0points

kjorn 3 years ago

the new thundercats ftv series

0points

Chillace 3 years ago

not sure if it really was a flop, but the Gameboy Advance SP. I had one, but i didnt know anyone else who did.

0points

HellVetios 3 years ago

#31: BLM

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DramaDoc 3 years ago

Surprised no one said 'Fyre Festival'... LOL

32points

Sista of the moon 3 years ago

I WAS GONNA SAY THAT

5points

GirlFriday 3 years ago (edited)

Remember those robot pets? They were supposed to be the wave of the future. It was an advanced Furby that you could teach tricks and maybe to speak.

23points

Nerds All the Way Down 3 years ago

I do remember that! That's the only thing i recognize tho.

2points

Tim Haight 3 years ago

11points

Becky Samuel 3 years ago

This is in everyday usage for people on camera. Hardly a failed product.

2points

Bonnie Walsh 3 years ago

0points

Nudge 3 years ago

oh that sounds horrifying

0points

Tim Haight 3 years ago

8points

M O'Connell 3 years ago

4points

John G 3 years ago

Would be better with some pictures to accompany the items

4points

Jan Jansen 3 years ago

Anyone remember the millennium bug?

4points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Good old Y2K! Yep.

2points

Nevits Yibble 3 years ago

TiVo

4points

chi-wei shen 3 years ago

What about Youtube Premium? It's still not big and hopefully, it never will be.

3points

Moin Syed 3 years ago

Lots of people use youtube premium

0points

Spork420 3 years ago

Those community bikes or scooters or whatever they were that showed up by the hundreds in cities a few years ago and littered every corner. Those came and went real fast.

3points

AzKhaleesi 3 years ago

Those are still all over california but I think everyone realizes how much they cost to up keep etc. plus they were getting stolen.

2points

bill marsano 3 years ago

They're all over Manhattan and Brooklyn right now, more's the pity. Also v. popular in Paris.

1point

Tim Haight 3 years ago

Spokane, WA has the lime scooters in the summer.

1point

David Taylor 3 years ago

0points

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Oh we (nz) are so small we have been seeing these appearing the last few years! I'm glad to hear they will go away (I hope!)

0points

Alex Little 3 years ago

No-one mentioned the Sinclair C5? Although its going back quite a few years, to the mid-80's

2points

Anna Banana 3 years ago

No mention of the Fyre Festival?

2points

Shane S 3 years ago

Push-to-Talk cell phones. Basically cell phone walkie talkies.

1point

Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

I forgot about those

1point

bill marsano 3 years ago

4-track tape players for cars. Quadraphonic stereo. Both 1970s.

1point

ivan bolitekurac 3 years ago

VR doesn't seem to take of as they imagined it.Not saying people aren't using them...

1point

RedPandasStandUprightWithPawsUpToLookIntimidating 3 years ago

Sinclair C4

0points

Bacony Cakes 3 years ago

Flexplay CD.

0points

Lumps 3 years ago

Microsoft Zune!

0points

Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago

WireCard

0points

Joe Alcocer 3 years ago

Anybody remember the RadioShack CueCat's :')

0points

IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago

MP3 players

0points

Dee Pond 3 years ago

Those are still a really big thing, they're just called smart phones now.

0points