‘What’s a piece of tech everyone hyped up that quietly turned out to be useless?’ – 23 so-called advancements that absolutely bombed

13.

‘Apple Vision Pro. A lot of people were hyped about Apple Vision pro. In the end sales were low. It probably was a combination of a high price tag and lack of useful apps for daily use.’
–TheBassMeister

14.

‘Blockchain it was going to revolutionize everything. In the end it didn’t revolutionize anything.’
–karmakazi_

15.

‘CueCat, a cat-shaped barcode scanner.’
–u35828

16.

‘The Zune was superior to the iPod and I’ll die on that hill.’
–suspect108

17.

‘I’m pretty sure most NFTs were used to launder money. They succeeded at that but yeah too many people bought into the hype.’
–MentalTelephone5080

18.

‘Wearable Smart Tech. Smart Watches were a great innovation, I’ve used one for like the last 8 years now. The problem was every company trying to go beyond smart watches. Google Glass, AI pins, Snapchat had some AI glasses that also flopped, the Meta Raybans seem to be the first one to ever actually catch on but I feel like most people only use them for the video recording more than anything else.’
–pops992

19.

‘AI in most everyday objects. Kids don’t need toys with AI chat bots and cameras built in.’
–ShinyNipples

20.

‘Touchscreen in cars. Basically physical buttons and controls mean you keep your eyes on the road. Touch screen forces you to look away which makes you more dangerous. It’s cheaper to build but that cost saving has not been passed on sadly.

Some car makers began to switch back to or stuck with physical controls, for things like environmental controls but in the past few years, because they’ve now stuck in lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, emergency stopping etc. it’s made it safer to look away so touch screen is rising again into the majority of vehicles.’
–GreyFoxNinjaFan

21.

‘8K TV’s. At current at-home TV sizes most people’s visual acuity isn’t high enough from a comfortable viewing distance to discern a difference to 4K, and there isn’t any content even for those that say they can.’
–BaldAndOld

22.

‘I don’t know if everyone was hyping it up, but the original Microsoft Surface was just that – a giant surface tablet the size of an entire table. I remember Microsoft really hyping and pushing this thing, showing it’s capabilities and how having this massive tablet on a table was just going to be part of every day life. The one I’m most remembering is they showed it serving as a table at a restaurant. Once everyone was done eating, they held and dragged their digital receipts into the centre and split the bill. They would also order using it.

The thing was like 15k or something when it came out and Microsoft quietly just pretended they never created it, reusing the ‘Surface’ name a few years later on their new tablet line.’
–Not_My_Emperor

23.

‘The Palm Pilot. I tried, I really did, but portables and the tech just weren’t quite there. If the OCR had been better, maybe. This was early 2000s. The early Blackberry did all of it better and it was a phone. Until I threw it on the ground.’
–GuyanaFlavorAid

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