Top 10 Failed Technologies of the 2000s

These technology fails will have you scratching your head. For this list, we’ll be looking at emerging technologies and products that crashed and burned in the early 21st century. Our countdown includes 3D Television, Rapid Blood Tests, Smart Glasses, and more! Do you wish any of these had succeeded? Tell us in the comments.

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[WatchMojo]

Do you wish any of these had succeeded? Tell us in the comments.

[generic_sauce]

To be fairrrr, this is how progress is made; by trying, failing, and trying again. It's what made the 80s so awesome, just how many new ideas were out there. Not all were successful but they paved the way for what we have now.

[jamalvargas]

Still Was a Awesome Time To Be Alive I miss that decade

[chrisrj]

I imagine 3D television might make a comeback, the way VR made a comeback after the 90s.

[justhumenau]

And the absence of 3D television support is now the biggest reason movie studio don't release 3D Blu-Rays anymore. It still has an audience (I genuinely prefer watching a movie in 3D than 4K), and with the rise of VR headsets you could think they would at least release the 3D versions on VOD ? But no, you can only watch them in cinemas, where the 3D quality can vary A LOT.

[JP-WC]

Netbook may have failed, but Chromebooks are basically the same thing now.

[garibaldilebeau]

Surprised you didn’t mention how the Segway tech directly gave us the “hoverboards” we have now

[michaeloptv]

Also Segway: What a shame. To be fair it has led to great technology with skate/hoverboards and was a cool concept. It was just too difficult to navigate, too clunky and WICKED expensive. Didn’t help that the Co-CEO died while using one. That led to its demise.

[spiderlover]

Smart glasses? You mean the scouters from Dragon Ball Z! 🤣

[AxeMan]

Funny thing is, I still have my 55" 3D TV from 2011 and I still enjoy popping in a 3D blu-ray or streaming a 3D movie from time to time. I hate that they don't make them anymore. I also used to enjoy playing 3D games on it as well, but those seem to have disappeared too.

[zyber-tube]

2022 is the year to talk about all of the 2000's!

[donaldsayers]

The volume differences in this video remind me of late night commercials in the early 2000's

[SandyWolf-]

Who remembers the "Blackberry" "Walkmans " were cool too!

[GreenCobrasGaming]

Been a while since I seen a 3D movie. Wished the television equivalent went big like the movie theaters did for a while. I remember my 1st big modern 3D movie was Journey to the Center of the Earth with Brendan Fraser back in 2008. Certainly not 1st 3D movie or one I seen but the 1st one without the color lenses. I still wore 3D glasses but it is the 1st to use the modern ones like you see in Avatar that came only a year later. That version of 3D then blew up throughout the 2010s. I think my earliest memory of 3D is seeing Spy Kids 3D with the color lenses. It was great to see 3D evolve over a short period of time. Now I have not even seen a movie in 3D prior to COVID. Mainly because the theater I been going to stopped playing 3D movie when they started to reopen from COVID. How sad 3D has fallen the last few years.

[GEMINIEARTHWALKER]

I still have my 3-D tv, and use it regularly.

[udobald]

I liked watching 3D Blu-rays at home through my PS3 on my 3D TV. Now it’s VR, but I still choose the 3D versions of movies in the cinema.

[trexadvent]

What would have happened if these technologies were done better after their first test?

[spiderlover]

The Segway was basically a glorified electric scooter that Paul blart mall cop loved to ride on.

[Dreamyblue]

Dang that's tough for the 2000's

[ELMolliez]

Man I really wish google glass or smart glasses are continue to be developed, just imagine having Augmented reality, and subtitles to any language on a pair of glasses.