25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
Here’s a great excerpt from their (dis)honourable mentions:
Timex Data Link Watch (1995): This early wristwatch/PDA looked like a Casio on steroids. To download data to it, you held it in front of your CRT monitor while the monitor displayed a pattern of flashing black-and-white stripes (which, incidentally, also turned you into the Manchurian Candidate). Depending on your point of view, it was either seriously cool or deeply disturbing.
Here’s the complete list:
- America Online (1989-2006)
- RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
- Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
- Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
- Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
- Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
- Microsoft Bob (1995)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
- Pressplay and MusicNet 2002
- Ashton-Tate dBASE IV (1988)
- Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
- PointCast Network (1996)
- IBM PCjr. (1984)
- Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
- Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
- Comet Systems Comet Cursor (1997)
- Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
- IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
- OQO Model 1 (2004)
- DigitalConvergence CueCat (2000)
- Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
- Apple Pippin @World (1996)
- Free PCs (1999)
- DigiScents iSmell (2001)
- Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)