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The Most Memorable Failed Inventions That Were Hyped As The 'Next Big Thing,' According To Reddit
From Quibi to Theranos and Segways to flying cars, here are some of the things that were supposed to take off in a big way... and didn't.
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Looking back at the technologies and inventions that changed the world, few of us would admit to being skeptical about them. After all, the things that took off tend to be so integral that it’s hard to imagine a world without them.
But when something new is hyped and then fails, it inevitably ends up seeming preposterous from the beginning.
On r/AskReddit, user Proof-Temporary-6928 asked people about inventions that were supposed to be the next “big thing,” but weren’t.
Here are some of the most notable responses — which, to be fair, made history in their own right… just not quite the way their inventors had intended.
Segways
3D TV and movies
Google+
Google Glass
Quibi
BlackBerrys without keyboards
Li-fi
Theranos
Olestra
New Coke
M. Night Shyamalan
Zune
The metric system in the US
World War I
Dippin’ Dots
Flying cars
The end of the world
[Via Reddit]
