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24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

Despite high hopes and tons of hype, these things all failed pretty spectacularly.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 4 years ago in Wow

Despite high hopes and tons of hype, these things all failed pretty spectacularly.

On the flip side, there are also plenty of businesses and ideas that succeeded in spite of all the haters.
  • 1

    Google Glass

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 2

    The Segway. It was supposed to change the way everyone lived. The invention of the century or something like that. A really big deal.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 3

    Not entirely relevant, but I liked the trend where everybody wanted the smallest cell phone possible. For 20 years cell phones got smaller and smaller. Often being the main selling point of the phone. Then all of sudden you could watch videos on your phone, and almost overnight the trend reversed to “larger is better”

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 4

    Airship travel. These were the next, awesome way to travel long distances; in fact the spire on top of the Empire State Building was meant as an anchoring point for airships. The Hindenburg kind of put a damper on it, though

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 5

    2020

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 6

    3D TV

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 7

    Google+ was supposed to be the answer to Facebook

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 8

    The European Super League.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 9

    The Panama Papers

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 10

    The "Dark Universe" cinematic universe, starting with 2017's THE MUMMY.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 11

    This one might be a bit obscure just because I've only ever met one other person familiar with it, but Google's Project Ara modular smartphone was looking like it could've been the end all be all of smartphones. Based off the Phonebloks idea of having a Lego-like hot-swappable module phone, the idea was that you could switch out any components of the phone on the fly. Camera, fingerprint scanner, even different quality screens. Conceptually, it really looked like it could take over the phone market, as it would lead to people not having to buy whole new phones anymore, but rather replacement or upgraded parts to a phone they already liked, thereby reducing costs and increasing utility. You don't want a phone with 5 cameras that inflate the cost unnecessarily? Just buy a one camera module. You want a 1440P Super Amoled screen to replace your 720P regular screen? Buy one and swap it in. However, like many Google projects, it died off for myriad reasons and the longstanding era of $1000 dollar smartphone slabs lived on.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 12

    Hoverboards? I remember in a span of 3 months everyone had them and showed them off and then they just disappeared.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 13

    Mini disc

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 14

    McDonald's pizza.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 15

    Xbox Kinect

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 16

    Dip N Dots... Been the "Ice Cream Of The Future" for 40 years now it seems.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 17

    Windows phones.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 18

    What ever happened to those curved televisions? I remember seeing one on an advert a few years back bit havent seen or heard about them since.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 19

    Asbestos Technically it was a hit! Right until it flopped when people figured out the whole 'inhaling rockfibers is not healthy' thing...

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 20

    At the time video calling with your phone completely flopped because 3G couldn't support it. There was so much advertising about this thing that was meant to be huge but the tech really didn't work yet. But it did blow up later on with 4G, better phones, wifi in more public spaces.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 21

    HD DVD Still remember half the movies being blue and the others red.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 22

    Elizabeth Holmes.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 23

    Google Wave. It was supposed to replace email with a more collaborative approach. Essentially it was like a dynamically-created discussion board you'd share with select people and you could have a more readable discussion than one with a bunch of forwards and CCs and the like. I thought it was a good idea, but it flopped big time and Google got rid of it after a few years.

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

  • 24

    MoviePass

    24 Big Ideas That Totally Flopped

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