Things which really died a death.

[Thankyou4calling]

A bit doom and gloom but I was just thinking of things which were launched in a blaze of glory and never really took off.

The first thing that sprang to mind was the search engine Bing.

For me, and i'd imagine most google dominates.

Then i moved on to E readers, I bought one and can't be bothered with it, maybe they are massively popular but I don't get that sense.

Products, good, services, shops?

What else has quietly disappeared?

[Podie]

Minidisc

[tuffer]

Steam engines, barely see one nowadays but used to be all the rage. And ruffs.

[cuprabob]

3D TV

[Captain Benzo]

i use bing!

if you login with a windows / xbox ID, each search collects points that can be exchanged for XBOX gift cards. once you factor in phone searches, it soon adds up.

[Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah]

Google Glass
Laserdisc
DCC (Digital Compact Cassette)

[ZOLLAR]

tuffer said:

Steam engines, barely see one nowadays but used to be all the rage. And ruffs.

Still see a few steam engines in South Wales, saw one at Cardiff train station Saturday afternoon, granted they could be considered modern tech in Wales

Remember ringtones and images for mobile phones? huge industry completely decimated in a short period by a few smartphones being released.

[Thankyou4calling]

cuprabob said:

3D TV

Good one. And VR too, has it caught on? I'm not so sure.

I can remember 3D Tv was gonna make all else obsolete but can anyone be bothered to sit in those glasses now?

[SpeckledJim]

curved TV. Stooooooopid.

[LordGrover]

Air cooled N/A flat sixes.
V12s.

[dci]

Bluetooth headsets..

Their days became numbered as soon as the car manufacturers twigged that they could charge for Bluetooth preparation as an optional extra.

[Thankyou4calling]

And Smart cars.

I may be wildly wrong in this but I reckon they will have fallen well short of their sales estimates.

They aren't dead but i still look when I see one though in theory they are a great idea as most cars rarely carry more than you could contain in a Smart.

[Gary29]

Channel 5

[gus607]

Sinclair C5, massive failure.

[toon10]

cuprabob said:

3D TV

I've had a 3D TV for about 3 years now. The glasses are still in a sealed box.

[cloggy]

Those electronic photo frames.

[pits]

toon10 said:

cuprabob said:

3D TV

I've had a 3D TV for about 3 years now. The glasses are still in a sealed box.

Same, but last time I saw my 3d glasses there was acid leaking out of them from the battery, that was 4 years ago now, no idea where they are these days

Driving standards
Common sense
Standard burger buns, instead we get this French breakfast toast st, just fk off with it, why do I want beef, bacon and cheese on a croissant you dirty s.

[Pieman68]

Captain Benzo said:

i use bing!

if you login with a windows / xbox ID, each search collects points that can be exchanged for XBOX gift cards. once you factor in phone searches, it soon adds up.

Apparently the largest search on Bing is...………….Google

[coldel]

ET the Game for Atari, theres a landfill site in New Mexico with millions of unsold cartridges buried apparently

Google+

Amazon Fire Phone

Betamax

Dasani

[RizzoTheRat]

cuprabob said:

3D TV

3D in cinemas seems to crop up every 30 years or so and then quietly disappear again. Cropped up a bit in the 50's, then again in the 80's and then again more recently which tied in with the appearance of 3D TVs. Give it another 30 years it might get somewhere.