http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/ Switched Comments for The Worst Gadgets of All Time 17 http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/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.) :-)]]>Aug 13th 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/Aug 13th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/Aug 13th 2008 8:48AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/
http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-us&prid=11274

If anyone is supposed to have problems with vista, it's me. update all of your drivers and check for new versions of whatever software you run and huzaa! it'll work. if anything is an epic failure, it's apple's fanboys for not realizing that vista runs fine if you take care of it.]]>Aug 13th 2008 10:25AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/
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.
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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.]]>Aug 13th 2008 10:10AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/
Mistie Ann]]>Aug 13th 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/Aug 13th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/Aug 13th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/
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.]]>Aug 13th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/Aug 19th 2008 7:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/Oct 21st 2008 1:27AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/
Poorly designed and 100's of complaints online about how it breaks easily and strains the kitchen faucet.]]>Oct 21st 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/http://www.switched.com/2008/08/13/the-worst-gadgets-of-all-time-17/
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]]>Oct 22nd 2008 12:38AM