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Technology Duds of Past and Present
By siliconindia
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Monday, 30 January 2012, 14:59 IST |
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6. Machine Translation
A ten year long research goes down the drain without a trace. A machine that could translate one language to the other left no good impression on the excited users due to its lack of quality.
5. QUBE
The concept of interactive TV, launched by Warner Bros Entertainment, priced at $200 in 1977 died a slow death as ‘two way cable was not seen as a viable capital investment’ as quoted by Paul Dempsey, chief engineer for Qube in Interactive TV. Accompanied with a massive 18 button remote, this two way interactive programming made it expensive to operate and Qube was seen packing up by 1984.
