Vintage Collection of Tech Failures

StormDriver writes "For every good design there are a dozen failed concepts. Nothing illustrates that better than a great online vintage gadget collection, published yesterday by the Microsoft Research team. The collection is a brainchild of Bill Buxton, one of the principal Microsoft researchers, a guy who's been through 30 years of continuous tech design. Awarded with three honorary doctorates and several professional awards, Bill also likes to gather things – the vintage, geeky kind of things, to be precise. Over the years, he has gathered an impressive collection of prototypes, probably the best I have seen online."

Horrible summary of a horrible blog post...

[SETIGuy]

Anyone who has actually gone to the site might notice that many of the items there aren't failures, unless you consider the Ipod G1, G2, G3 and Touch to be failures. The Palm Pilot a failure? The IBM Trackpoint a failure? I think not. Most of the mice in the mouse section, not failures. Etch-a-sketch? One of the most successful toys ever, a technical failure? Swiss Army knives, a failure?