The Worst Gadgets of All Time 17

This brought back some memories. I feel as though I do have to defend the Kodak disc camera, though; through the late 80's and into the early 90's it got me through college, as well as a number of memorable adventures. It was an inexpensive camera that was small enough to be carried in a shirt pocket. In truth, I don't really recall of the photos being blurry or sub-par compared to other pictures that I had taken..........then again, my standards were probably pretty low in my early 20's.
Anyway, I think the root of its demise is similar to those of other cameras: the advent of the digital camera. (At least that's why I replaced my Kodak disc.) :-)

Let's addd Vista to the pile...with all of the software issues I am still having...there should have been some serious industry planning...I undertand the need to protect secrets...but come on people vista still sucks for anyone who is working with graphic intensive, or video intesive software.

You forgot Polaroid's Polavision 8 mm "instant" movie system.

Polaroid forged ahead with this doomed project as everyone else saw video as the future of this kind of application.

It was proprietary, expensive, and produced movies that were dim and had to be played on their special polavision player.

They also for got the RCA Selectavision Video Capacitance Disk player. Not many people remember these but that were video players that pre-dated Beta and VCR players. They used a disk that lived in a hard plastic record sleeve in which a user would slide the entire sleeve into the player and deposit the disk then pull the empty disk out. It functioned like a video version of a record player where the disk had to be turned over half way thru to play the other side. For late 70s/earcl 80s tech it was pretty cool, you could even track forward and back to different chapters like today's DVD players. Check out: www.cedmagic.com

Oh and I actually bought the Sega 32x...and the Saga CD and the Sega "Blaster" rifle. I sold the entire system plus 40 someodd games to a coworker back in 2001 for 50 bucks for her kids to play. Now that I have kids I am kicking myself.

The first time I saw an ad for the 'fridge with a tv, I have to admit my first thought was of how cool that would be...About my third time to see the ad, all I could think was how STUPID it was!!! What am I going to do, stand or pull up a chair in front of the fridge? rofl

Mistie Ann

what, no virtual boy, r zone, game.com or mini disc? all epic failures

I always like the fridge, however they cost too much... I wish they would give me one..

"They also for got the RCA Selectavision Video Capacitance Disk player. Not many people remember these but that were video players that pre-dated Beta and VCR players."

Uh, no.

CED came out in 1981.

Betamax came out in 1975 while VHS came out in 1977. LaserDisc came out in 1978.

CED was a late arrival, and that was one good reason out of a few other good reasons why it failed. By the time CED came out, video cassette was already well-established while LaserDisc survived because it satisfied a niche that CED could not; people who wanted better picture quality than what video cassette could offer.

In addition, one of the primary selling points for CED, cheaper discs compared to video cassettes, was rendered moot as people preferred to rent movies rather than buy them at that time.

And, CED's picture quality wasn't much better than VHS.

Plus, you couldn't record (although the same applies to LaserDisc).

If CED had been released in the late 1970s as originally intended, it might have been a success. But it did suffer from a technical problem concerning disc construction and from inept, revolving door leadership that didn't believe in and/or understand the format so the 1970s release was scrapped while the issues were sorted out.

Unfortunately for RCA, by the time CED came out, it offered what was already available from the competition.

Don't forget the Kodak Advantix Camera system......or the 4-track tape cartridge

Wow and to believe I wanted one of these.

Don't forget to add Proctor and Gambles latest disaster = The Pur Flavor Options Faucet mount. One flavor cartridge at a time to deliver flavor through a filtered water system.

Poorly designed and 100's of complaints online about how it breaks easily and strains the kitchen faucet.

What about the Atari 5200?

This thing deseves to be on this list.

Let The Angry Video Game Nerd tell you why!

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/17031.html?type=flv