The tech that never took off
Remember where you were when Apple announced it was launching a phone? Excitement was unbridled. Fanboys were whipped into a frenzy. And we all know the result... the Motorola Rokr E1. Read on for more tech that never took off.
(Credit: Crave UK)When we first heard about the MP3-playing Soundwave Transformer toy, our heads nearly exploded. We searched the Web for a place to buy it, we told everyone we knew about it, we hopped from foot to foot with excitement about it. We bounded out of bed to meet the postman first thing every morning until our Japanese import finally arrived. Then we played with it for about a day before it went in a drawer, never to be seen again.
Sadly, this sort of thing happens all too often. A new technology is talked up in swells of hype, anticipation, and promise. Then it arrives... and everybody's lost interest. We've rounded up 10 of our favorite technologies that never lived up to their promise or their press: it's the tech that never took off.
Read more of "Whatever happened to...? The tech that never took off" at Crave UK.
