17 Stupidest Tech Fails of all Time.

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, so dumb in fact that I'd be impressed if you managed to finish this video without wanting to bang your head against the wall or copy it because team number seven is easy from Hasbro. bake the oven and the only thing you really need to know is that it's an oven that really works and it's made for kids, so of course we're going to test it so you can rest the cake on the edge. Here you push it in with this. I can't believe this is a real product.

You probably won't be surprised to find out that the Easy Bake oven had to be urgently recalled after five children managed to get their fingers caught in the door and burn themselves from inside the oven. and not just superficial burns, deep third degree burns from not being able to get them out. Hasbro then offered a free grade for parents to put on their models to prevent more fingers from getting through them, but it turned out that wasn't a great idea. because quite possibly in the process of trying to install the fantastic one, 77 other kids managed to come up with a monumentally stupid idea, but I'm only going to give this a 2 out of 10 and fail because it looks like Hasbro finally swooped in and created It's almost impossible to send you the latest models , maybe I'll downgrade it at the end if the kick sucks.

Number 16 on the topic of Apple food. Most people think that the iPhone was Apple's first smart device when it burst onto the scene in 2007. That's because they want you to forget their first real attempt with the Apple Newton in 1993. It was the first to call itself a personal digital assistant for all devices. PDA. It could store your contacts. Manage your calendar. It even came with a stylus inside. for writing notes by hand and was basically sold as a way to have an organized life that actively helps you capture, organize and communicate your ideas and information, except if you bought one you were almost guaranteed otherwise.

I just realized the date is set to 1994. I wasn't born then, Newton's key selling point was that it could understand your writing, but the product came out 20 years before the

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nology was good enough to do so, so hi, my name is Aaron, hi, my no is red. get rid of you, oh yeah, and it also costs 1400 in today's money, three out of ten fail. I feel like I'm going stupid or, as this video continues, you may have heard that Tesla electric cars are absolutely flying right now, there's a two-year waiting list for them here in the UK, but it's a bit strange because at the same

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one of its main key selling points, the so-called full self-driving mode, is kind of a lie: there is a big difference between full self-driving.

Driving and just assisting the driver, one actually drives the car for you which would be a game changer and the other just means you sit in the same seat as normal, pay your full attention to the road as normal and The only real difference is that instead of holding your hands on the wheel, you simply keep them slightly away from the wheel, but are ready to grab it if something goes wrong, which to make matters worse has happened a lot during its public beta testing, three in ten fail to advertise the car as autonomous charging. there are more people to buy the feature but then using the fact that it's still in beta is a cover up when there is an incident, it seems a bit avoided to me now, if you spend a reasonable amount of time on the internet there are many possibilities.

You've come across recently leaked Grand Theft Auto 6 footage from big video game publishers all the time, but this particular one was on a whole new scale: the hacker managed to acquire over 90 video files from this top-secret game. announced, probably the most anticipated game of all time. Hours of gameplay were leaked and not yet ready to be shown to the world, greatly hampering the public's perception of it while also apparently stealing the entire source code, which could be worth hundreds of millions. It's almost Grand Theft. Grand Theft. Car and what makes all of this hurt 10 times more is the fact that the suspect is currently believed to be a teenager who used a smartphone to do it.

Someone in the GTA dance in this mutation due to calculation errors. Google, in fact, Google has had so many. It

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over the years because there is an entire website dedicated to hosting them and it has over 270 entries, but Google Plus stands out as probably its biggest failure. They were all Google's attempt to launch a social media platform in 2011 with a unique selling point they called circles, they allowed you to divide your friends into the various social circles they fall into for you, your work friends, your friends from the gym, your exes, so you can then post personalized things that specifically appeal to those groups of people.

This was not good. The idea that it ended up being a burden on users, forcing them to manually sort every person they added and also half the time it didn't even make sense to sort people like many of your close friends spanned many of your different circles and then you're left with this complex network of somewhat overlapping groups, at which point Facebook's much simpler friends system where you can add someone once and that's much more engaging and when you combine the fact that their The differentiator key was simply an annoyance with the fact that Google Plus was late to the social media game and at the same time late with almost all the standard social media features, such as having a smartphone app through which They could send messages to people, not surprisingly it was too. a 4 out of 10 flop, plus size, very expensive, you know what never works?

Celebrities use their large amounts of money to create technological products. I mean, just look at what happened to Soldier Boy when he tried to make a game console. The reality is that this is what he is doing. A good technology product requires experience and vision, neither of which you had when you decided to make the Pulse Smartwatch Will I Am came very strong with this product, telling us that it was not just a companion to your smartphone, but that this was a smartphone with its own SIM card inside, but the product's surprisingly quick failure was well deserved, it's 50 the fact that it looked and, more alarmingly, felt like a wife, and some reviewers even said it cut their wrists while holding them. said and the Other 50 that I don't know how you didn't see it coming, but there is absolutely no way you can do all the things you want to do on a smartphone on a 1.7 screen, was sold as this really clever form of Incognito to keep up to date. you got away with your life, but the reality was that you were crouched in an alley fiddling with your oversized thumbs trying to figure out how you were going to write a complete sentence before you wanted to burn this piece of trash, it was a great meme. but as a tech product widely described as the worst thing I've touched all year, five out of ten, but who would have thought that the biggest Smartwatch to ever fail would come from Apple?

We all know that Apple is no stranger to luxury and that they have always been on the premium end in terms of price, but in 2015 they really let their reputation go to their heads when, along with their standard and sports watches, they launched the Apple Watch Edition, a ten thousand dollar, 18 karat hyper premium gold line. Versions were given to big celebrities like Kanye West and Beyoncé for marketing. This was going to be Apple's massive cash pile, in a way to multiply its revenue beyond what was previously thought possible, but if you think about it for more than two seconds, who wants to? spending over 10K on a smartwatch whose functionality, display and battery will be instantly obsolete as soon as Apple releases the next model, very few is the answer, as the Apple Watch edition shipped in tens of thousands of units, which is bad for any major tech firm but completely abysmal by Apple standards, the key thing they overlooked is that the smart watch market is not like the normal watch market, the type of people who buy smart watches are people who love technology and someone who loves technology is not going to sacrifice their ability to buy the next 20 Apple watches just so they can afford one now that it's a little brighter starting to smell this cake now very excited to try it now with all the crazy developments in AI that happen every day, like that Dali website that can literally create any image you want, just by typing it, it often seems like we're on the brink of what's called The Singularity, the point at which super-intelligent AI comes to fruition. becomes so intelligent that its actions cannot be controlled or predicted by Humanity.

Think Skynet in Terminator. or GLaDOS in Portal, but every once in a while you see something that reminds you that maybe we're okay for a moment, like the Knightscope K5, the fully autonomous outdoor security robot that was designed to detect potential criminals with a full suite of sensors. thermal imaging camera, a laser ranging radar, air quality sensors, even a suspicious wireless signal detector, and anything it detects can alert human security guards, who can then take action. The problem was that the robot was its biggest obstacle, like in 2016, a K5. The unit deployed in a shopping center in California decided to take the law into their own hands by directly attacking a perpetrator who turned out to be a 16-month-old I'm in danger and then, in 2017, a 41-year-old drunk man showed how hard These would-be Robocops do this by knocking one over in a parking lot where they are left because they have no way to get up.

You would think that at least one of the advantages of hiring a robot over a human security guard would be that they don't get tired or in pain, not these guys, because later that year it all seemed to become too much for a K-5 that was dramatically thrown to his death by drowning in a mall fountain, I think robocalypse might be a little further away than we thought. The number nine takes silliness to new heights and we're back to Apple again. In fact, of all Apple's failures in recent history. You could argue that none have been greater than Apple Maps. launch and it's not just that it was plagued with glitches and problems, but the fact that it was based on fairly low quality geographic data from TomTom led to benchmarks that looked like they were taken straight out of a Marvel Doctor Strange movie, not in the good sense and even putting aside the melting muddy roads and cavernous ravines in the middle of the street, the app actually sent people to places that don't exist, like a completely made-up airport in Dublin, where many users found themselves scratching their head, not to mention that launching a map sap to the world when the software was not yet ready was also dangerous in Australia, the police had to issue a warning to motorists after several people were driven to a park in the middle of the Outback , where they were stranded in 46 potentially deadly locations. degrees Celsius of heat without a water supply, this is a seven and the situation was serious enough that Apple Maps has become one of the few times this company has actively come out and publicly apologized, but it has not been Worry, there are plenty of failures to go around. because at number eight is Samsung and not for a smartphone as one might expect, but for a washing machine or, more precisely, 34 different models of washing machines.

There's no point in guessing why they had to be taken off the market. Yes, there were explosions involved. Specifically, there was a flaw in these. devices where the machines would shake so violently that the entire roof of the unit would come loose and fly off, bruising, injuring and knocking out customers as if it were some kind of planted military weapon, forcing Samsung to recall millions of units and offer a free repair to fix them. the problem of loose fasteners on the top of the unit, but still how ignorant you have to be to design and test 34 different models of washing machines to the point where they are ready to hit store shelves without realizing it that they are self-adjusting.

Destroying number seven is the Sinclair C5 and this was supposed to revolutionize personal transportation in 1985. It was a small three-wheeled hybrid vehicle for one person, bike, car, with a range of up to 20 miles per charge and yes, That means it was electric long before most people even thought about electricity as a transportation option, and while 20 miles may not seem like a lot, the idea was that it would be enough to cover most people's daily commutes. in an affordable and environmentally friendly way, the Sinclair was literally 500 designed by Lotus powered by a Phillips hair dryerbuilt by Hoover and Road tested by people who tried hard not to look like a pillow, yeah it looks ridiculous and the hype died down pretty quickly when people realized a few more things about it, which is for the best.

A speed of 15 miles per hour meant you could actually get to work faster on a normal bike, as its open design didn't give you any sort of waterproofing - especially unreflective given it was first made for the UK and didn't have a reverse this is not an exaggeration if you get stuck you would have to get out of your car go forward lift the nose and turn it manually imagine the scenes I will give it a seven but imagine if you got into an accident this could have been worse we won't have afraid because the next one will definitely be seen in 2012, when cable TV was still the standard and Netflix was just a baby, a new company called Ariel came on the scene and they had an idea, many people still wanted to watch these cable TV shows , but they wanted to do it in a way that was convenient for them rather than making sure they were specifically available when that show aired, so Ariel rented warehouses and leased thousands of small satellite dishes that allowed them to access those TV shows over the air. cable, all the major US channels, like CBS, NBC, Fox, etc., and then they basically recorded them and then allowed their paying subscribers to watch them.

They recorded shows over the Internet and this was very popular with their subscribers . This was really solving a real life problem people had. So how could it go wrong in the

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way possible? Of course, clever concept and advanced technology, apart from the one key thing that Ariel overlooked was actually securing the rights to redistribute any of the channels they were broadcasting, which effectively earned them a Fast Track ticket to the Supreme Court, the highest federal court in the United States, where several major television networks across the country sued them over Oblivion for profiting from their products Ariel had to immediately shut down its services after the case in 2014 and declared bankrupt the same year.

Okay, we're in the top five, so you've heard of GMO Foods. GMO means critically genetically modified. organisms and is where biologists use genetic engineering technology to edit the DNA of crops to make them more attractive to eat, such as creating tomatoes that can grow larger and last longer on store shelves, but someone always takes it too far, as we discovered with the recombinetic company. who apparently found a way to genetically modify a cow's DNA so that she could grow without sprouting horns. Farmers usually have to remove the antlers from their bottles for safety reasons, so this would be huge for both the farmers and the animals.

They claimed that they had only done what could already be done through standard breeding practices much faster, so they argued that their GMO balls did not need to be regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration, which they always did. It's a bit of gravy and, of course, when they were inevitably investigated, we found out why it turns out that the company's scientists had accidentally spliced ​​bacterial DNA into the cow's genes and I mean, the fact that they had unknowingly contaminated the The gene pool was already catastrophic enough, but the fact that it had also potentially made them resistant to antibiotics would have made them a serious danger to the future cows they gave birth to and the humans who were going to eat them.

I'm going to give this one an eight out of ten because once the authorities realized what had happened, they had no choice. but killing animals by incineration to stop the further spread of these genes and the violence is only about to escalate with the number four, so you've probably heard that America has a gun violence problem and the debate over the solution is incredibly deep. and complex, so it was both troubling and hilarious when axon, a company whose mission is to protect life, very publicly announced its solution to mass shootings. Let's put police drones with remotely operated Tasers in high schools.

Oh my god, what an idea. I don't think you'll get me wrong, I applaud you for trying to make a difference, but it's such a tone-deaf idea that you can very easily see that it actually increases the levels of violence; The announcement immediately became a laughingstock on Twitter and then what made the situation even more ridiculous was seeing the backlash. Axon then responded by admitting that the majority of its Ethics Advisory Board were actually strongly opposed to the project, but that the company had basically ignored them, which actually makes them look even worse and led to nine of the 12 board members board they resigned in protest made this axon company look like a big joke, you know, maybe if they had come out with something more like samsung washing machines, people might have taken them more seriously now, luckily axon's taser drone never reached production. the Russian chess robot, I meant, very similar to the K5 robot from before, also managed to attack a child.

I understand you want to win, but that's too far from the video. It seems that the seven-year-old tried to make his move while the robot still thought it was his turn and ended up grabbing his finger, squeezing it too hard and fracturing it, and officials from the Russian Chess Federation also had some slightly strange responses to the incident, like Vice President Sergey Smargan. I kind of blamed the kid claiming it happened because he violated safety protocols, the stupid kid who committed that terrible crime and then I remember the president of the chess federation made a truly eye-opening and emotional statement, the robot broke the kid's finger. kid, this of course is bad, you know?

I wasn't sure how to feel before hearing that, but now that I know it's bad, it really cleared things up for me. 8 out of 10 fail, wait, did I just lose? Every once in a while you hear an idea that's too good to be true. like the fact that you can subscribe to this channel for free and it usually ends up being only because the consequences have not been properly thought out and perhaps the worst example of this in history is MoviePass, a subscription service that allowed users watch a movie. a day at the movies for only 9.95 a month, considering that's barely a dollar more than the average price of a single movie ticket, that's crazy, like you're going to take full advantage and go see a movie for 31 days a month.

I would be saving more than 95 on those tickets. MoviePass might have saved on mobile, but wait, little problem. MoviePass still had to pay theaters to get tickets. Their profit model was supposed to be that they were offering such a good deal that most consumers would buy it and not even feel the need to take full advantage of it, thus giving their money back to users who used it only once a month, everyone who just forgot they were subscribed and didn't use it at all now, I felt it sounds stupid because this revenue model was so fragile that even if those users only bought an average of just 1.5 tickets a month, MoviePass would still spend more paying to the theaters than they earned from subscriptions and obviously MoviePass subscribers were going to reserve more than 1.5 tickets people watched movies every other day stocking up on tickets for later dates and being so careless with what they reserved because they didn't It cost them nothing that half the time they didn't even show up to screenings which led to MoviePass leaking cash from all angles and shortly after declaring bankruptcy. 9 out of 10 didn't see it coming, but MoviePass has nothing to do with the Gilbert u-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory stupidity.

Sorry, what was the Gilbert u238 atomic energy laboratory. a game that was released for kids back in 1950. Think of it like those modern chemistry games you can buy for your home, except this game allowed kids to create and observe nuclear reactions using real radioactive chemicals, it's bad enough that is real. A piece of uranium can do to a fully formed adult from meters away, let alone what it can do to children who physically play with it and sometimes eat it, 10 out of 10. And speaking of which, I think our cake is ready, so place this attachment. Now I'm proving my own point here, okay, I'm talking about moments of stupidity.

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I'll take credit for this one.