Some technology and gadgets seem like a great idea, but turn out to be a bust. Like the Power Glove, that was hyped up in the movie The Wizard. The Power Glove is a Nintendo controller made for the hand, which was a pretty neat concept. The glove grossed around $88 million, and sold 100,000 units, but just could not live up to the movie hype. Also the games sold to be compatible with the glove just did not fair well.
Microsoft Zune
Microsoft and Apple are always competing, and Microsoft really wanted to compete with the iPod. Although Microsoft is superior in computing, they hired the wrong person to design a MP3 player. The Zune completely failed to capture any of the market share after five years, and did not even make the list of the five best-selling music players.The concept was their the execution was just super poor, as the device just did not run well and always deleted your music, which is why I am glad I did not make the mistake of purchasing one.
Apple Newton
Some of you may remember the Newton, but most likely you probably had no idea it existed. The Newton was a digital assistant, and nothing special, which is why it was dropped, and why I won't go into more detail.
IBM PCjr
This was IBM's first attempt at a home computer system. The PCjr came with IBM PC's 8088 CPU and BIOS interface for design and implementation decisions which led to it's commercial failure.On November 1, 1983 it shipped out and was nicknamed "Peanut". The PCjr came in two models the 4860-004 with a whopping 64KB memory and costs $669 and the 4860-067 that came with 128 KB memory and a floppy disk drive. I mean at the time it was new technology the PCjr just did not live up to its makers dreams.
Nokia N-Gage
Nokia made their attempt in a mobile phone/ game system which was based off of the Nokia Series 60 Platform. The N-Gage came out in 2003. The hype was strong in this new technology and it sold 400,000 sales in the first two weeks. Although, market research shows that only 5,000 of the N-Gage units were sold in the U.S. and only 800 in the UK. Nokia made an attempt at getting the gamers away from their portable Nintendo systems, by offering an all in one phone. The concept was their just the design was poor again, and they could of used more research and development.
Sinclair C5
The C5 was a battery electric vehicle that was invented by Sir Clive Sinclair and launched by Sinclair Vehicles. In the UK January 1985 the electric tricycle that was controlled by the driver's knees was launched. The Sinclair C5 had a top speed of 15 miles per hour, and was the fastest speed allowed in the UK without a license. It was safe to say that the Sinclair did not do well and met media ridicule, and a well known UK commercial disaster.
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