22 NIGHTMARE Tech FAILS they want us to forget.

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My favourite addition to the Track and Trace app was that it also didn't take into account vertical distance, so if you're on the bottom floor of a skyscraper, and someone pings 100 floors up, guess what: you've got covid!

Funnily enough, the Kinect is now somewhat desirable for people getting into VR, because it can give you full body tracking for cheap and with less hassle than setting up, charging, and putting on trackers, especially if your headset didn't need/come with the base stations needed for tracking

Your videos are so captivating.
*You count down even how many seconds for each fail which is so helpful for someone like me who has ADHD and OCD
*You don't just sit in one place you go outside, in your bathroom you do all types of stuff throughout your video
* You're not afraid to do silly things like put shaving cream on your face when you're talking about the razor fail
*The jokes you make throughout, normally in videos when people make weird little jokes I just kind of just roll my eyes and chuckle a little bit, but I've actually laughed out loud at a lot of your jokes because a lot of them I don't expect 🤣The two birds, one drone...I didn't think you were going to say that 🤣🤣
*There's a lot more I can say, but I absolutely love your channel. Just found out about it yesterday!

the ismell could actually probably be used to great effect for things like meditation and general stress relief; can you imagine being able to call up the smell of petrichor on demand? or a field of flowers? the smell of a bonfire? the beach? combine that with some asmr and it kinda sounds magical tbh

I LOVED the Kinect. It could be used for working out as well. Just Dance worked best on it because the game is judging your entire range of movement, forcing you to actually dance, while in other games you can just wave your arm around.

Dude, PS Vita had such a potential. I still think that it was a great handheld, as it had a lot of classic games, which stand strong to this day: Ratchet and Clank trilogy, Sly trilogy and Thieves is time, Jet Set Radio, God of War trilogy, Final Fantasy games and etc. It’s such a shame Sony buried it alive.

Kinect was a failure for its intended purpose but a gamechanger for budget machine vision / 3D Scanning at the time, with Adafruit putting out a bounty to reverse engineer its drivers. Microsoft didn't like it. It's super fascinating !

Not skipping a single app because this man deserves everything for his puns, great personality and effort in making these videos. 💗

The Vita was such a well designed and fun console. Sony just gave up on it too soon. They needed fun games, marketing, and a price drop. But that all cost money that they didn’t have in the early 2010s when they were in a dire financial situation. I still loved my vita and I played it all throughout my high school days.

I actually think the Kinect was just marketed wrong because it’s a great 3-D motion capture camera if you do animation, and now they’re highly sought after, but she can’t get them, because Microsoft stopped making them once they found out that you could use the connect for motion capture

Hey Arun, I enjoy your videos so much and I really appreciate that you put this much effort in making. I love all of the videos in this series. Can you please do the top successful products as well? I would love to watch.

You should have mentioned with the Blockbuster story, the reason that they attempted to launch their Netflix clone service was that, a few years earlier, Blockbuster passed up on an opportunity to buy Netflix, thinking that the company had a bad business model and wouldn't benefit their own company. And really, by the time they realized the exact opposite was true, it was too late to save themselves.

Snap Spectacles dropped 15 miles from my house. I made it there in 30 minutes. The stampede had ended in 10.

To be fair, the kinect had great potential. They even licensed it out to smart TV developers. The first Samsung smart tvs basically had a kinect integrated into it.

for comparison in France we got the app "tous anti-covid" (everyone against covid) that was launched because of the pandemic and it apparently costed 7 million to develop and publicise (they spent more on marketing than on the app development) and it would use bluetooth to detect when you passed by other people and notify people if you declared yourself positive, it also serves as the support for the electronic version of the "sanitary pass" which was required for a lot of stuff

Back in the 90s, IE had a major advantage, since Microsoft integrated a lot of proprietary tech into it and then sold webpage development tools that would liberally use them. Since those tools were integrated into IE and not available to other browsers like Netscape, a lot of pages only rendered properly when viewed on IE (and in case of ActiveX controllers, on Windows OS).
This also led Microsoft to create a frankenbrowser called Internet Explorer for Unix (based systems).

3:28 honestly, this applies to every single Windows iteration after Windows 7. It's progressively got more blocky and child friendly while simultaneously hiding and making features infinitely harder to find. To the point that even when you know where everything is, it STILL takes more clicks and more time than it would in the previous windows version.

On the Vista part, you said something about it being rushed and there not being enough time for developers to optimize and fix stuff. They eventually got it (probably) all fixed, but changed the name to Windows 7 and it became the new XP

The iSmell is still a good idea in my head. Just not for consumers. They had the right idea for cinemas, but now with immersive technology like VR, escape rooms, theme parks it really would've added an extra layer.

To be honest, the kinect is pretty good for full body tracking in vr, by no means amazing, but on a budget it works well enough especially for the prices you can get them for nowadays

I remember when you rented video cassettes from the corner market - not Redbox, literally asked the cashier if they had Star Wars for rent (they would have three copies) and you rented them for a dollar a day up to three days. You could even choose between VHS and Beta. Only years later was when Blockbuster came along, and Netflix was a mail-in rental.

I remember having both the PSP and the Vita
Some of the major upgrades for me were moving away from the disks in those barely protective shells, to an actual cartridge. Bringing the touch pad tech over from the PS4 controller. The fact that it was able to connect to, and be used in conjunction with, a PS4. These things made it really stand out as a handheld. It was just a shame the battery life was pretty bad for the intended use of the Vita

This man can rick roll anyone with almost everything he has he is the ultimate rick roller.

I'm a paramedic and even when I worked with the covid team or sat outside a covid ward for hours waiting with a patient I still didn't get pinged by the track and trace app. Both my wife and I got covid at the same time, we uploaded our codes to the app - neither of us got pinged. Bloody disgrace.

I love the way you do this video way it's entertaining and yet not overdoing it so that it is actually good compared to a lot of the other people who think that they need to take it way overboard with the comedy or well make the stupid jokes where it's all puns and makes it corny and dumb so kudos on a great video keep up the good work

The ismell is a good idea for vr. You can use it with a full body tracking with touch sensors, hand tracking controllers and a 360 treadmill to get the ultimate vr experience. And the best thing is that all these things exist! (For a hefty price)

iSmell might be a great idea today, with VR tech, and people digging for ANYTHING to enhance their gaming experience.
The only thing is, it needs to be more than just the surroundings. I’d like to see them adding food scents as well, since often, movies and games like to add meals as ways to foreshadow aspects of the plot in an low key way.
Not to mention, people would go nuts being able to smell delicious meals from a screen lol.

The introduced content is very educational. A lot of medium and large design companies can use these epic fails and advance their products/services. Way to go! Looking forward to more valuable content!

I enjoy your videos. I really appreciate that you just do it, you just shove the information to us, no unnecessary talking lol, I appreciate that. ❤️💪

That iSmell seems like a great idea to me. Being able to pump smells out while playing a VR game, for example, would seriously add to the Immersion. The smell of burning or gun powder for a war game, or the smell of flowers for one of those calming VR experiences, or literally anything else. How the hell did this idea not take off? Even if you had to sell specific 'smell packs' to use for each particular game or app. I would buy those up in minute.

it is incredible how this guy can make people watch his 40 minutes videos without getting bored

regarding 14: I tried 3D. I cared for it (even ordering 3D BD releases from Japan after they stopped releasing 3D movie BDs her in EU) and I am quite frustrated that now when either my 3D TC or 3D BD player will eventually fail, I will not longer being able to see my films in 3D.

As someone who has to wear glasses just to see, I’m so thankful 3D tv’s never took off. I never watch 3D movies for that exact reason. I can’t wear my prescription glasses with 3D glasses at the same time. It’s too uncomfortable.

the psvita fail i agree with so much. as a psvita owner myself, it had so much potential, filled to the brim with awesome games that make sure you never feel bored of the game, and features that anyone couldve asked for in a portable console during its tims.
however, because of sony's bad decisions, whatever they were thinling, it just screwed the thing over. bad pricing, proprietary accessories (thankfully fixed with the psvita 2000 slim models, which had 1gb of inbuilt storage and a micro usb charger), and what not.
the psvita couldve lived up to its name, forgive the pun, Vita, but instead it became Mortem.

Props to you for actually acknowledging the real ticket price for Fyre Festival. A lot of people take the 250k price tag face value and then laugh at supoosed rich kids wasting money.

Honestly, I think iSmell was just ahead of its time. I think with VR being somewhat big today, this would have been a perfect compliment to a VR setup.

I think the Chinese covid tracking app was developed and implemented for like 2-3 million pounds by Alibaba and a few others. Companies covered all the cost, and since they are already in cloud business, scale it up is a really a no brainer.

He never fails to rickroll us 😂😂😂

the worst part of onlive's demise was not that it had a startup with big dreams mentality... it was more that sony bought and killed it off to make it's own, ecosystem-locked version.
in any case i did enjoy onlive and it was one of the most amazing innovative services that has ever been made imho.
because one of the things you forgot to mention: yes, you pay monthly... but you could play EVERY game on the platform, included into the price, on pretty much any hardware,
and from any location

I remember hearing that the Kinect itself was great, but the games failed to use it right, that makes the failure worse

AMD's later Piledriver and Steamroller architectures were based on the Bulldozer architecture but were improved to the point of being really good value.

These companies are literally just creating fails to be on this show at this point

Well the Norwegian track app(1.version) for covid was ranked as one of the worst for user privacy and was in the same score area as countries we don't like to be associated with in the western rich I countries. But U.K wasn't the only one who burnt themselves on the tracking / tracing app for C-19. The 1.version of the tracking app was removed because of the privacy thing and many people didn't trust the 2.version after that(me included) and the government was repeatably trying to get their citizens to install it. The population was fool me once, but many still installed it.

i slightly disagree with the vita fail as so far the only fail i had with it was it was too damn fragile i swear i broke that thing once then got it repaired only to break it the next day.

What is interesting about Kinect was that it is now being used for monuments and art displays in several countries. In fact, there was one in Singapore at the airport where they would track your face and aline your face with the white paper in front of you. This was all done with the Kinect itself!

I happened to like Windows Vista Ultimate.
I had no compatibility issues.
I could stop it from EVER trying to update or even look for updates (GD I miss that feature!).
PC ran quiet and wasn't heating up or struggling to run a bunch of crap in the background like windows 10 does.
Dreamscene... I know there's replacement apps for it now, but I loved running that! In short, it was a program that allowed you to use animated images or video as well as interactive stuff as your desktop background.
Not having to emulate DOS. Had several older games that simply won't work on anything past Windows Vista Ultimate without using an emulator. They worked fine on Vista though.

GoPro was basically trying to sell three products in one, Camera, Gimbal, and drone... It was a great concept but it was a pain to travel with. Although I never used it more than maybe three times I still have it because at the time hand held gimbals were rare and I kept it just for the gimbal which I stopped using all together ( even ) the GoPro due to the advancement of recording stable quality video on phone

I kinda wanna see the iSmell perfected, imagine being able to tell how an area smells on games

They probably aren’t a commercial failure, but when those Dyson bladeless fans came out, I was like “we’ve just entered the future.” Really expensive subpar fans.

I liked 3D on Tvs but only passive (theater style). Ive owned both passive (Vizio) and active (Samsung) 3D tvs and active wasnt as good. Not only did the glasses need batteries, but the 3D was less natural. The theater style on the Vizio was superior.

I actually tried kinect once, it was at a kids club when I was on holiday with my family, and it was actually pretty good. Also the red card feature for swearing might be annoying, but it is cool

I love how there was a fail in one of the fails. Specifically at 14:14, where the console labeled XBOX ONE is actually a version of the Xbox 360 called the "Xbox 360 E". I noticed that the controller looked wrong and then noticed it actually said Xbox 360 on it. I understand the mistake, it does look similar. Just found it interesting.

Sony's failure for the Vita actually does have something to do with the smartphone market. Back in 2011-2012 (vita's release) game devs actually were considering smartphones to be the next best thing for handheld gaming. This caused a lot of game devs to make ports for their games to mobile first, instead of handhelds. Capcom being one of the most notable examples (they still actually release ports for mobile) and others like Rockstar (a lot of GTAs and even Bully) did get involved. Sony themselves also thought this was the case and went ahead with an Xperia Play. Thing is, this perception didn't die down till like 2014 to 2015, when a lot of these ports started being delisted, phone games like CoC released which were free but had a robust microtransaction model, and with lower quality but way better (read: addicting) gameplay loops than 1st gen mobile games (cut the rope, angry birds) when people who were adults kinda realised that good games were still with consoles/PCs. Vita was actually released at one of the worst times possible, as Sony gave up on it because of mobiles.
Nintendo survived this because they already had a dedicated fan base, a gigantic library for 3DS (also released 2011) and had a vastly different form factor to a smartphone. Furthermore they actually couldn't focus on anything else than their console as nintendo didn't have anything but the 3DS. Even then nintendo actually released doodle jump, angry birds and cut the rope on their devices (full price lol) and their next step was not a pure handheld, but a handheld cum console.
If Sony had somehow managed to port all PS1, PS2 and PSP games along with PS3 games (very hard as it'd put them in direct competition with own product) or had stuck with what they tried out with PSP go and allowed TV output (alá nintendo switch) or even continued promoting it, it'd been a success.

PS Vita is such an amazing handheld. I swear Sony tried to kill it intentionally with their ridiculous proprietary SD cards and the Vita game library was quite limited unless you are a fan of JRPGs.
At least it's been hacked so that you can use normal microSD cards in it now and run tons of emulators on it, it's an absolutely amazing system when it's jailbroken. Definitely my favorite handheld system of all time

Blockbuster also had a mail-in service, which you could drop at a mailbox or any store. I still have some BB envelopes and my membership card in almost mint condition. It is framed in my can cave. I could not wait for the weekend to hit my neighborhood BB to get some movies and games. But when I got my DL and car. I had to drop them off. New releases and games were two days, and six for regular. But damn it was good times. When they implemented "late-fees" which I recall being $20. So I had to drop new releases on Monday before they opened. Yeah, I missed a few which I had to fucking pay for. I think they upped the price...people were getting pissed. It was borderline extortionate. When Netflix came out. Or when I signed up. I knew it was just a matter of time for BB to flatline. But they did sold a lot of movies under $10 and even .99, plus tax, of course.

The Vita was an amazing console. The pricing, proprietary format, and lack of developer support killed it. But as a piece of hardware - I’d love to see them come back.

I feel like this guy is up there with musk and other big brand owners. Having so much wisdom on the tech industry and even giving advice to these global brands, all while still having great and sometimes cringy humor but nonetheless amazing content and information.

I was one of the lucky ones who was able to fully enjoy Windows Vista. Since right around the launch I had just build my first seriously powerful gaming rig. It was able to run Vista without issue.

Finally he remembered his main channel.

The Blockbuster one is wild to think about. Remembering when Blockbuster was on top, and then right after it went down and Netflix was relevant for a little bit. What a weird time.

The Kinect listening in on you in your own home whilst playing your video games must be THE solemn worst case of digital home invasion and breaking into people's privacy I EVER heard of. That THAT did not set off much more of a storm of protest and lead to some consequences is something that has surprised mea great deal. That being said, I am curious if the Kinect's (superior) ability to pick up on all the physical moves its players made with all of their bodies during gameplay is something that since has been implemented into other game consoles, would anybody know that?

something interesting my grandmothers 3dtv did was allow two people to play the same game on one console, both having the full screen to them selfs instead of split screen, where screen size and resolution is reduced,there were two pares of glasses and one saw one screen and the other, well saw another I thought It was really cool, no clue the brand or anything I just have a memory of playing with that screen.

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This seems like a great idea! But, it should be used for games and stuff rather than to aromatize your home, imagine the immersion in a game if you could smell the ambient, like gta, when entering a store smelling the inside, or entering your brand new car to smell the it, or an explosion! So much possibilities, I always wanted a product like this!

The bulldozer scandal goes very deep and the advertised core counts were really half of what was on the box

People snortoling their farts for eachother on iSmell is possibly the greatest thing i have ever heard

I'm becoming addicted to this guy's videos. In 36 minutes, He gives you so much knowledge that could take you 5 days of reading.

The PSP hurt me as well. I've always been a part of the PSN ecosystem since 1997. I loved the PSP and even the Vita when it came out but they just didn't support it and advertise it. They could have easily been on top of gaming consoles and been fighting Nintendo on the portable console market. They should try revamping the Vita after they're done with being out the PSVR 2.

ask any web developer which browser was their least favourite to develop for and they'd answer IE (up until very recently) The funny thing was the MacOS/OS X versions of IE5 was a lot better than the windows version.

The Vita was such a good console, it's a shame Sony never really cared about it outside of Japan and made terrible marketing choices like the proprietary memory slots.

The PSVITA made me legitimately sad. The problem is, it was an incredible console, and still is today if you can get your hands on one and a custom SD Card to PSVITA card converter. You can jailbreak it and download free games and even a PSP emulator, which is incredible. As Arun said, though, initial sales are what matters in the long term.

Funny enough. Kinect was the thing for everyone in Poland pretty much, mostly because of Nintendo. Basically, Nintendo decided to never start advertising in Poland and stayed that way for a long time. And so, we never had much talked about any consoles. It only started appearing every now and again with switch. And only during Pandemic we had commercials for Nintendo and only since that time we have other advertisements (mostly physical posters or such). Not only, that, but they also didn't really sell in Poland. And so, if you wanted a console of Nintendo's you had to import, which is pricey. And also, it was hard to get games. This persists even now as switch and its games usually get a third of an isle in shops, while Xbox and Ps both get an isle each. (The only other thing as small as Nintendo is now PC games, but that's because almost no one buys physical ones anyway). Because of that Kinect was a good idea in Poland as there was not really an alternative and it was what came to casual players and what they used as it was accessible.
On a side note. The Kinect sports/adventures and Kinect harry potter (6. BTW, it was an awful game and the Kinect was the only part that saved it) were all bangers and fun to play especially for my child self with too much energy who loved to play them and had so much fun doing it. Also, wasn't obese then and unathletic so it was really fun and not exhausting to do. A lot of fun, would live this childhood experience again. 10/10 success

I’m a pro software dev for 20 years and if that software costed 22B then someone white washed 21.5B. This is the type of software that a university student needs to be able to write to get his/her final and graduate.

The light 16 could have been absolutely revolutionary if the editing software worked well. It's really a shame

I still have a old Sony Bravia that uses 3D and I have only used the 3D feature once and I was not impressed. It was very underwhelming.

Plot Twist : he's reminding us of it even though the company wants us to forget it.
what a nice person

Let’s all be honest, BlockBuster wasn’t a “fail” but it failed as far as being behind in innovation. I felt way more excited to watch a movie when I went to the store with friends or family, had a DVD limit (due to being poor af), being able to see all the posters, newest games with in-person free trial, and getting the occasional microwave popcorn and candy at the check out counter

I think the i smell would be a great addition to movie theaters, that way you could feel more like your in the movie. Especially if it was a decent price for the theater. Movies and theaters are always trying to make you feel like you in the movie and smell is another way. (Ex) scene in a pasture the smell of grass, a war scene, the smell of gun powder, etc.

The online subscription for consoles is literally my biggest issue with them. Like I already paid however much money to buy the console, and now I gotta spend another $60-80 a year just to play online with my buddies. On top of that, modern games have gone up in price significantly. One if the reasons I loved my Ps3 was for the exact reason that I didn't have to pay for (insert whatever company here) gold. And it was the reason I never got into Xbox. But now it's the industry standard and drives me batsh*t crazy

As someone who owns a 3D TV, I absolutely agree with you.

22:40 The irony in the Blockbuster story is, Netflix actually tried to get Blockbuster to buy them out in the beginning. Blockbuster said no, saying that they didn't see a future in movies by mail.

I remember using the kinect when i was a little kid, it was very laggy and sometimes just didn't work but it was so much fun running in place and seeing how your character on the tv also run

Hearing how much money was wasted on that NHS app LITERALLY made me feel panicked. The amount of pure incompetence required for the development to cost even a FRACTION of that much is beyond absurd.

I'm using Edge to watch this. Since Microsoft failed, the New Edge is based off Chromium, just like Google Chrome. LOL I remember Netflix. I was one of the first people to sign up and still one of their customers. Luckily they changed to full online streaming when my kid broke a Netflix DVD. They never asked for it back since they were done with DVDs. How lucky was that. I loved the idea of Windows Vista. Even a mod version of Vista that was better than the original crashed too much. Had to install it 2 times or a more a year. What a pain. OnLive, I knew it was the future. They would still be around if the timing was better. I was one of the Free accounts, LOL. If you haven't already, you should review AirConsole - Multiplayer Games. Excellent concept for family and friends gaming on the go. Free version has plenty of games to test. I signed up for the year. Turn a Chromecast, PC, or Tablet into a gaming console using your smart phones as the controller. Bored at a party, everyone turn your phones into a controller and start playing. Love how some games has the phones as a second screen plus the controller. Thanks again for the Tech FAILS videos!

when i was little, we had this vista desktop for over our near a decade. it ran really slowly and had error pop ups like that a lot. drove my parents insane. perks of being lower-middle class, i suppose.

I love how most of these seem like great ideas but executed horribly

Damn if #20 had worked it out and sold/marketed it properly we could have had “smell-o-vision” by now!

The NHS one should definitely be 10 out of 10, the Uk is in massive tax debt and that app is one of the main factors of why this is the case

I feel the biggest issue with the kinect was missing:
Microsoft massively cut down on the abilities (the original was a technological marvel) so it would fit their ideal pricing

#15 breaks my heart. I LOVED my vita, I still play it sometimes and seeing it die the way it did was a tragedy

He always finds a way to rickroll us

I'd say, that if something is deliberate, then it's not a fail. If you plan something and it happens the way you want it to, it's a win.

I have the LG smart TV with 3D and the Blu-Ray, i remember barely even using the 3D mode when it was brand new, what impresses me though is how good that TV still is even for 2022, i could easily keep it for more years. even the design was ahead of its time.

I wonder if smartphone companies turns that ismell into a smaller electronic device so that we can get any type of fragrance from our phone and also record fragrances along with the videos through the camera

As a huge PSVita enjoyer (still using it to this day thanks to SD2Vita and CFW), I definitely think the memory card issue had a lot to do with why it bombed. Better integration with their consoles and a standard SD card, they may have had an almost Switch-like experience and been far more accessible/appealing. Pretty sure the Switch would have still been a smash hit even if the Vita succeeded, but maybe Sony could have gotten a piece of the pie instead of just crumbs and failure...

When I saw you put Fyre Festival at #2, I thought "What on Earth could be a bigger disaster than that?"
You did not disappoint.

I swear the Kinect was frickin good and I still have the 360 but I recently upgraded to a series x and was disappointed not to have it although the speed and all other factors compensated for the Kinect in the end.

Even though I never owned a PS vista I still admired the games the system had

Blockbuster never charged a $40 penalty on a late rental return. For every day you were late you paid a few dollars which could add up but not a flat $40 late fee as you mentioned. Also there was a fee limit which would be the full price of the VHS or DVD if not returned. Now if you had say 3 movies out at once and kept them too long then yes you owed late fees per title per day.

I feel like the iSmell wouldve been good for perfume companies so you could smell how it would smell before buying it