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sorting out a lesson plan. can you give me some product failures that most people are likely to remember (i.e. not completely bike related....oh, ok. bike related, too).
cheers
betamax.
mini-disc.
(oh... hang on.. how old are the students...?)
Dasani.
mini-disc rocks! still using mine
The batteries in the original iPods being cak.
Batteries in Dell (or was it Sony Vaio?) laptops 'exploding'
Rover 1.8 head gaskets
the sam coupe.
Consignia
HD DVD
[i]mini-disc[/i]
Minidiscs are fantastic! I still use them all the time. Nothing else comes close to their editing features + sound quality.
Most things by Clive Sinclair?
hd-dvd
i said hd-dvd first - it wouldn't let me post!
teacher teacher, pick me, pick me...
8 tracks
sinclair C5`s
Ford Edsel
Sinclair C5
sinclair c5
segway
Ford Edsel (going back a bit mind...)
Comet (jet liner)
spooky echo in here
New Coke
New Labour
PRST-1
Space Shuttle
Fairy Excel
Cannondale
Concorde (sadly 🙁 )
biopace
not a product failure as such but the hoover 'free tickets to the US when you buy a vacuum' thing was quite spectacular.
New Labour
😉
Laserdiscs
DAT
Mercedes A class moose roll over?
Ford Pinto (Exploding fuel tank)
Firestone tyres (Failure due to Heat damage by exhaust pipe on Ford Explorer)
Apple Newton
Delorean
South Sea Bubble.
New Coke.
Atari Jaguar
Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Millennium Bridge
Millennium Dome
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Damn thing never worked. Pah!
Contraception 🙁
Microsoft Bob
The first TT's without spoilers.
Atomic Bomb? You could say that particular experiment has failed 😉
Titanic.
Space Shuttle Columbia.
Sega Dreamcast never really caught on
Mercedes S Class auto braking demo that ended in a big crash infront of journalists.
3DO, Philips V2000, Nintendo Virtual Boy
Going back a bit but it's a good'un
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Does the question need a little clarification ?
ie was the product poorly designed/manufactured or was is a 'poor product' in terms of sales (which is quite a few of the above) - the two are somewhat different (betamax being one example).
Sinclair C5
Ford Pinto (Exploding fuel tank)
[i]Mercedes S Class auto braking demo that ended in a big crash in front of journalists. [/i]
That wasn't the technology, it was because the driver forgot to turn it on... 😳
Laserdisc.
Amstrad videophone (in fact, quite a few things by Amstrad)
Sinclair C5
URT suspension designs (Klein Mantra, Trek Y etc)
Sinclair QL
Acorn Electron