1. Maxwell Ready-to-Drink Coffee – Contained in a cold carton and coffee could not be microwaved.
2. New Coke – No one liked New Coke.
3. Famville – One of facebooks most addictive games when it is hardly a game but a series of mindless chores on a digital farm.
4. Ford Pinto – Had a tendency of exploding when involved in a rear –end collision.
5. Phone Fingers – Austrian company found a solution for fingerprints on phones.
6. Sony CD Copy Protection – Before iTunes, record labels tried to stop people from pirating music.
7. Vio – Coke called it the world’s first “vibrancy drink.”
8. “Small Sacrifices” Glider – invented by German Otto Lilienthal.
9. Motor Powered Roller Skates – Made in China and brought to the U.S. via Amsterdam, these skates were sold mostly on street corners.
10. Smile Scanner – Invented by Japanese company Keihin Electric Express Railway.
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