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For every invention like the smartphone or the internet, there are a lot of devices that fail. Some of them turn out to be failures very quickly, others were used for quite a long time until better solutions were found. Here are some examples. It is not particularly difficult to point out revolutionary products and technologies that were successful. It is much more difficult to list those that did not catch on. Because they were simply unsuccessful, poorly implemented or - they did not cope with the competition. In this article, we will pull from the depths of history a few ideas that ultimately turned out to be technological dead ends.