This Was Ahead of its Time!

Top 3 Gadgets that were ahead of their time, and why they'll reappear in our future 👀

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[ChippyGaming]

You know time is flying when Google Glass was 10 years ago… wow.

[dustinblanton]

Don’t know how nobody has mentioned the PSP being ahead of its time. It came out in 2005 with a built in browser, camera and had really good games. That thing is legendary.

[joelconolly]

Marques Brownlee was ahead of its time.
One man that reviews gadgets on a video format and became the single person to drive an industry tech creators unlike anybody on the platform has ever seen. Definitely worth a mention.

[ojavaid]

My team created the Motorola Atrix (software and laptop dock). Thank you for featuring us!

[RC]

More context on the GM EV1.

The car was actually really well received and people loved it, but GM created it to show how crap electric cars are. So when customers had a completely different reaction to what they expected, they bought all the cars back and destroyed them in fear that it would create a market shift towards EVs.

Basically they didnt want to self sabotage their ice vehicles

[livelongandtroll]

No one remembers the EV1... because GM made it damn sure everybody forgot. In the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006) you can see people *BEGGING* to buy the cars they leased and GM refusing, taking the car back and crushing them. They donated completely gutted and disabled models to the Smithsonian and other institutions with agreements that indicated that the cars were not to be "titled, licensed, nor driven on public highways" and could only be restored and showcased.

During the discontinuation movie director Francis Ford Coppola *hid* his EV1 from General Motors and was ultimately able to keep his EV1.

One of the biggest corporate d*** moves in history.

[DaemonGeek]

My candidate for the "Ahead of its time" award is the Dell Streak. The first smartphone on the market with a 5" screen. I remember buying and using this phone and it was so ridiculously large compared to other phones that I was mocked mercilessly. Now look where we are! 5" is a small screen in today's world.

[SufyMusic]

I was an engineer for an app for google glass enterprise edition 2 last year, I quit though because I didn't approve of military robots. EE2 was terrible with the operating system it had throttling issues until they released an os patch that seemed to fix it. Enterprise Edition 2 wasn't good when I worked on it and there were no app stores etc. I was working on it to be able to have zoom meetings, and to give commands to Boston dynamics robots.

[MHenry-sbdg]

Microsoft Kinect 2.0 was a great piece of tech that brought voice control and more to my home 5 years before Google Assistant. Also had a camera that would pan and zoom and follow on Skype calls. I loved it.

[anjaime]

I still remember when you posted the original review for the google glass years ago (back in 2014?). Really cool to see how you’ve come since then

[lilan]

For me the Sega Dreamcast was 'ahead of its time' for a console . Playing online Quake via a 56k modem with chat capability was incredible. It also had an internet Browser and the ability to attach a keyboard. And not to forget some of the peripherals they came out with was way ahead of its time.

[XBRDa]

Really could make this a series, giving full in-depth documentaries about products ahead of their time and their influence

[NinjaGc]

I owned the Atrix 1 for about 3 years. I had the laptop dock, but it also came with a dock to plug into your car and worked like Android Auto before Android Auto. I would actually use it as a dash came with the car dock suction cupped to my windshield.

To this day I still tell people it was my absolute favorite phone ever. I still have it + the docks just sitting in a drawer lol.

[xsam]

I remember watching a presentation where Microsoft showed off a dock for their windows phones that could run a full desktop experience. I was so sure that would become a thing by now...

[GeekStreet]

10 years since Google Glass!? can't believe its been that long

[Tofukatze]

Watching the Google Glass part now after Apple Vision Pro got revealed really confirms that this truly was a product that was ahead of its time.
I am actually expecting Google to come up with a Google Glass revision or v2 now after everyone saw what Apple was cooking all along.

[donnieseals]

I'm going to need a part 2 of this series. I know you and your team came up with 7 more ideas. This was great BTW.

[yawnidubs]

this was such a great throw back to all the tech that came out. I remember all of those that came out and even going into phone stores just to play with them.

[TarisRedwing]

You should def do more "off the beaten path/unusual/cool Tech devices" like this videos. It's fun to see what could have been and might still be influencing behind the doors current tech trends

[ryanmcgowan]

I used Google Glass to record myself taking measurements. Normally, I have to hold a camera. or have another person hold the camera while I walk around throughout a building with a laser tape measure. With Glass, I had both hands free to just walk around and measure. One tap to pause, two to stop recording. The only issue I had was it would quickly overheat. No one ever gave me flak. Most people wanted to try it on.