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5 Biggest Tech Failures Of All Time That Were Just Ahead Of Their Time

Check out the biggest tech failures of all time that served as a basis to the present day inventions like flying cars and drones.

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Pooja Suryavanshi
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When the world heard about flying cars for the first time, everybody thought that it would be one of the biggest tech failures of all time. It was almost impossible to make a car fly even a few feet above the ground. Aircar is now a reality and it's making us believe that

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“Every Failed Attempt Is A Step Forward To Success.”

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gadgets and technological inventions have failed miserably. They were just ahead of their time apart from being bulky, expensive, and unattractive. But they motivated the inventors.

Let us introduce you to all those tech flops of the past.

5 Biggest Tech Failures Of All Time That Failed To Become A Major Success

1. First Smart Watch

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Apple smartwatches that can measure your heartbeat, warn about the bad weather, give health statistics, and even alarm you about potential risks. MSN direct smartwatches by Fossil and Swatch were the basis of this invention.

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Also Read: 5 Indian Technological Inventions You’ve Never Heard Of

3. Flying Saucer Camera

Before flying cars, flying cameras were the reality (No! we aren’t talking about drones).technology failure

Flying Saucer Cameras were designed to take photos of their surroundings. But their main purpose was to capture the strange lights from the sky. It was assumed that UFOs could be sending those signals to earth.

Where did the idea came from?

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spacecraft.

Unfortunately, this invention turned out as a technology failure but thankfully it gave birth to drone cameras.

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4. MySpace- A Place For Friends

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king of social media during the 1990s. Gradually, MySpace ended as a technology failure as it failed to match the future demands and was later sold for $580 million by NewsCorp.

5. AltaVista

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Unlike Myspace, this popular search engine survived long even after Google and Yahoo came into the picture. And its search robot called Scooter was very advanced and capable to gather information from million web pages in a day.

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Despite being too good, developers didn’t know what to do with AltaVista and ended up being a struggler. It lost to Google and Yahoo and was completely left out from the web in 2013.

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All these biggest tech failures of all time remind us of only one thing, “Even the best can fail if it doesn’t match up the speed of the world and update itself.”

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