‘What’s something that was hyped as ‘the future’ 10 years ago that you barely hear about now?’ – 17 gadgets and gizmos that never really took off

10.

‘NFTs

‘OK, not exactly 10 years ago though’
-Sea_Risk2195

11.

‘VR. When I was in college people hyped up the Oculus to be the evolution of gaming.’
-matingmoose

12.

‘SOLAR

‘FREAKIN

‘ROADWAYS’
-LexiWhatWeGot

13.

‘Graphene Batteries. It was promised to have little to no degradation and would hold a charge for 10 years and a host of other promises. Never materialized.’
-xiaolixx

14.

‘Nanotechnology. I have a big pile of old Popular Science issues at home, and there was a chunk of time between the mid-2000s and the early 2010s where they were really obsessed with nanotechnology.’
-ElSquibbonator

15.

‘This may be even more than 10 years ago- but projectors on phones. Does anyone else remember when that was supposed to be the next big thing? If you wanted to show your friends a video you’d project it up on the closest wall instead of using your phone screen. Some phones had it but it was discontinued pretty quickly.’
-crazyv93

16.

‘Fusion power.

‘Every 10 years, it’s only 5 years away.’
-Dry-Poem6778

17.

‘Blockchain for everything. Voting… BlockChain tracking inventory… BlockChain was the default answer for everything for a while and never really went anywhere mainstream.’
-nrmjba

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