What Happened to the Segway?
Segway launched in 2001 promising to reinvent transportation. Ninebot ended production in 2020. Here is what…
What Happened to the Zune?
Microsoft launched the Zune in 2006, never caught the iPod, and discontinued all Zune hardware in…
What Happened to the Xbox Kinect
Kinect sold 10 million units in 133 days and set a Guinness record. Microsoft discontinued it…
Why 3D TVs Failed and Vanished
It was the glasses. The content shortage followed from them. Samsung dropped 3D in 2016, Sony…
Why Netbooks Disappeared
Netbooks went from the fastest-growing category in computing to gone in five years. The iPad gets…
What Happened to Windows Phone
Windows Phone arrived late, never closed the app gap, and broke its own early adopters in…
What Happened to Google Glass
Google Glass did not end in 2015. Consumer sales stopped then, but the enterprise version ran…
Why Apple Discontinued the iPod
Apple ended the iPod in four stages between 2014 and May 2022. Here is what closed…
Dead Gadgets of the 2000s and 2010s
A map of the gadgets that ended between 2004 and 2018, grouped by what actually killed…