17 Stupidest Tech Fails of all Time.

welcome to the top 17 stupidest Tech fails of all time so dumb in fact that I'd be impressed if you managed to make it through this video without wanting to smack your head against a wall or copy it because the number seven team is Hasbro's easy bake oven and the only thing that you really need to know about it is that it is an actual working oven made for children so of course we're gonna try it so you rest your cake on the edge here you push it in with this I can't believe this is a real product you probably won't be surprised then to find out that the Easy Bake Oven had to be urgently recalled after five kids managed to get their fingers trapped in the door and burned from the inside of the oven and not just surface level Burns deep third degree burns from not being able to get them out Hasbro did then offer a free grade for parents to attach to their models to stop any further fingers going through except turns out it wasn't such a great idea because quite possibly in the process of trying to install the great a further 77 kids managed to get easy baked monumentally stupid idea but I'll only give this a 2 out of 10 and fail because it does seem like Hasbro has finally swooped in and made it almost impossible to send yourself in the latest models maybe I'll downgrade it at the end if the kick sucks number 16 on the subject of food Apple most people think that the iPhone was Apple's first ever Smart device when it exploded onto the scene in 2007. that's because they want you to forget their actual first attempt the Apple Newton in 1993. it was the first to call itself a personal digital assistant to all PDA it could store your contact manage your calendar it even came with a stylus inside of it for handwriting notes and it was basically being sold as the way to have an organized life actively helps you as you capture organize and communicate your ideas and information except that if you bought one you were almost guaranteeing the opposite I've just realized the date is set to 1994. I wasn't born then the Newton's key selling point was that it could understand your handwriting but the product came out 20 years before the tech was good enough to do that so hello my name is Aaron hello my non is red get rid of you oh yeah and it also cost 1400 in today's money three out of ten fail I feel like I'm getting stupid or as this video goes on so you might have heard that Tesla's electric cars are absolutely flying right now there's a two-year waiting list for them here in the UK but it's kind of strange because at the same time one of their key main selling points their so-called full self-driving mode kind of a lie see there's a big difference between full-on self-driving and just driver assist one actually drives the car for you which would be a game changer and the other just means that you sit in the same seat as normal you pay full attention to the road as normal and the only actual difference is that instead of holding your hands on the wheel you just hold them slightly off the wheel but ready to take it should anything go wrong which to make matters worse has happened a lot during their public beta testing three out of ten fail advertising the car as self-driving charging people extra to buy the feature but then using the fact that it's still in beta is a cover-up for whenever there's an incident it seems a little dodged to me now if you spend a reasonable amount of time on the internet there's a pretty good chance you came across the Grand Theft Auto 6 footage that recently leaked info leaks from Big video game Publishers all the time but this one in particular was at a whole new scale the hacker managed to acquire over 90 video files of this top secret unannounced game probably the most anticipated game ever he leaked hours of not yet ready to show gameplay for the world to see which is greatly hamper is the Public's perception of it while also apparently stealing the entire source code which could be worth hundreds of millions it's almost Grand Theft Grand Theft Auto and what makes the whole thing sting 10 times more is the fact that the suspect is currently believed to be a teenager who used a smartphone to do it someone at the GTA ball on this one mutation for miscalculations Google in fact Google has had so many fails over the years that there is an entire website dedicated to hosting them and it's got over 270 entries but Google Plus stands out as probably their biggest Flopper them all it was Google's attempt at launching a social media platform in 2011 with a unique selling point that they called circles it allowed you to split your friends into the various Social Circles that they fall into for you your work friends your gym friends your exes so that you can then post tailored things that specifically appeal to those groups of people this was not a good idea it ended up being such a burden on users forcing them to manually sort every single person they added and then on top of that half the time it didn't even make sense to sort people like many of your close friends are going to span many of your different circles and so you're just left with this complex web of somewhat overlapping groups at which point Facebook's much simpler friend system where you can just add someone once and that's it was far more appealing and so when you combine the fact that their key differentiator was just a hassle with the fact that Google Plus was late to the game of social media whilst also being late with just about every standard social media feature like having a smartphone app that you could message people through it's not surprising that it was also a plus sized very expensive 4 out of 10 failure do you know what never works celebrities using their vast amounts of money to build Tech products I mean just look what happened with Soldier Boy when he tried to make a games console the reality of it is making a good tech product requires expertise and vision neither of which will I am had when he decided to make the pulse Smartwatch Will I Am came in very strong with this product you told us how it wasn't just a companion to your smartphone but that this was a smartphone with its own SIM card inside of it but the products astonishingly quick failure was very much deserved it's 50 the fact that it looked and more alarmingly felt like a handcuff with some reviewers even saying it sliced their wrists while putting it on and the other 50 that I don't know how he didn't see this coming but there's absolutely no way you can do all the smartphone things you want to do on a 1.7 screen it was being sold as this really slick Incognito way of keeping up to date with your life but the reality of it was you crouched over in some Alleyway fumbling around with your oversized thumbs trying to figure out how you're going to possibly type a complete sentence before wanting to burn this piece of junk it was a great meme but as a tech product widely described as the worst thing I've touched all year five out of ten but who would have thought that the biggest Smartwatch failed potentially ever would actually come from Apple we all know that apple is no stranger to luxury and that they've always been on the premium end in terms of price but in 2015 they really let their reputation get to their heads when alongside their standard and Sport model watches they released the Apple watch Edition a line of hyper premium ten thousand dollar 18 karat gold versions they handed them out to Big celebrities like Kanye West and Beyonce for marketing this was going to be Apple's huge cash-in a way to multiply their income beyond anything previously thought possible but if you think about it for more than about two seconds who wants to spend upwards of 10K on a smartwatch whose functionality display and battery will be instantly dated as soon as Apple releases the next model very few is the answer since the Apple watch Edition shipped in the low tens of thousands of units which is bad for any major Tech firm but completely abysmal by Apple standards the key thing they overlooked is that the Smartwatch Market is not like the normal watch Market the kinds of people who buy smart watches are people who love Tech and someone who loves Tech isn't going to sacrifice their ability to buy the next 20 Apple watches just so they can afford one now that's a little bit shinier starting to smell this cake now quite excited to try it now with all the crazy developments in AI happening every day like that Dali website that can literally create any image you want by just typing it it often feels like we're on the very brink of what's called The Singularity the point at which super intelligent AI becomes so intelligent that its actions can't be controlled or predicted by Humanity think Skynet in Terminator or GLaDOS in Portal but then every now and again you just see something that reminds you maybe we're okay for a bit like the knightscope K5 the fully autonomous outdoor security robot it was designed to scope out potential criminals with a whole Suite of sensors video camera thermal imaging a distance measuring laser radar air quality sensors even a detector for suspicious Wireless signals and then anything it picks up it can alert to human security guards who can then take action problem was the robot was its own biggest obstacle like in 2016 a K5 unit deployed at a shopping center in California decided to take the law into its own hands by directly tackling a perpetrator who happened to be a 16 month old toddler I'm in danger and then in 2017 a drunk 41 year old man proved just how tough these would-be robocops are by knocking one over in a parking lot where it stayed because they don't have any way of picking themselves up you'd think that at least one of the advantages of hiring a robot over a human security guard would be that they don't get tired or feel pain well not these guys because later that year it it all seemed to just become a bit too much for one K-5 he threw itself dramatically to its death drowning in a mall Fountain I think the robocalypse might be a little further away than we thought number nine takes the dumbness to new heights and we're back to Apple again in fact of all of Apple's misfires in recent history You could argue that none have been greater than what Apple Maps was at launch and it's not just that it was riddled with glitches and issues but the fact that it was based on pretty low quality geography data from TomTom led to landmarks that looked straight out of a Marvel Doctor Strange film not in a good way and then even putting the sludgy melting roads and cavernous Ravines in the middle of the street aside the app was actually sending people to places that don't exist like a completely made up airport in Dublin where many users found themselves just scratching their heads not to mention that releasing a map sap to the world when the software was so far from ready was also dangerous in Australia police had to issue a warning to motorists after multiple people were led to a park in the middle of the Outback where they were stranded in potentially life-threatening 46 degrees Celsius heat without any water supply this is a seven and the situation was serious enough that Apple Maps has become one of the very few times that this company has actively come out and apologized publicly but don't worry there's plenty of fails to go around because at number eight is Samsung and not for a smartphone like you might expect but actually a washing machine or more accurately 34 different models of washing machine no points for guessing why they had to be recalled yes explosions were involved specifically there was a fault with these devices where the machines would shake so violently that the entire roof of the unit would unfasten and fly off bruising injuring and taking out customers like it was some kind of planted military weapon which forced Samsung to recall millions of units and offer a free repair to fix the loose fastening issue in the top of the unit but even then how ignorant you have to be to design and test 34 different models of washing machine to the point where they're ready to go on store shelves without realizing that they're self-destructing number seven is the Sinclair C5 and this thing was supposed to revolutionize personal Transportation back in 1985. it was a tiny three-wheeled one-person bike car hybrid vehicle with a range of up to 20 miles per charge and yeah that means it was electric well before most people even thought of electric as an option for transport and sure while 20 miles might not sound like a lot the idea was that it was just enough to cover most people's daily commutes in an eco-friendly affordable manner the Sinclair was literally 500 designed by lotus powered by a Phillips hairdryer built by Hoover and Road tested by people who tried hard not to look like a pillow yeah it does look ridiculous and the enthusiasm died off pretty quickly when people realized a few more things about it that its top speed of 15 miles per hour meant that you might genuinely get to work faster on a normal bike that its open design didn't give you any kind of weatherproofing especially unthoughtful given that it was made for the UK first and that it didn't have a reverse gear this is no exaggeration if you got stuck you would have to get out your car go around to the front lift up the nose and manually turn it around imagine the scenes I'll give it a seven but just imagine if you got into an accident in this thing could have been worse we'll have no fear because this next one definitely is see back in 2012 when cable TV was still the standard and Netflix was just a baby a new company called Ariel entered the scene and they had an idea many people still wanted to watch these cable TV shows but they wanted to do so in a way that was convenient for them as opposed to making sure that they were specifically available when that show aired and so what Ariel did rented warehouses leased thousands of tiny satellite antennas that allowed them to access those cable TV shows all the main us channels like CBS NBC Fox Etc and then basically recorded them and then allowed their paying subscribers to watch those recorded shows over the internet and this was really popular with their subscribers this was genuinely fixing a real life problem that people had so how could it go wrong in the most brainless way possible of course intelligent concept and advanced technology aside the one key thing that Ariel overlooked was actually securing the rights to redistribute any of the channels they were streaming which effectively earned them a Fast Track ticket all the way to the Supreme Court the highest federal court in America where several of the biggest TV networks in the entire country sued them into Oblivion for profiting off their products Ariel had to immediately shut down their services after the case in 2014 and filed for bankruptcy the same year all right we're in the top five so you've heard of GMO Foods right GMO stands for genetic critically modified organisms and it's where biologists use genetic engineering Tech to edit the DNA of crops to make them more appealing to eat like creating tomatoes that can grow larger and last longer on store shelves but someone always takes it too far like we found out with the company recombinetics who apparently found a way to genetically modify the DNA of a cow so that they could grow up without sprouting any horns usually Farmers have to remove the horns from their bottles for safety reasons so this would be huge for both the farmers and the Animals the combinetics claim that they'd only done what could already be done through standard breeding practices just a lot faster so they argued that their GMO balls didn't need to be regulated by the U.S Food and Drug Administration which is always a little sauce and of course when they inevitably did get investigated we found out why turns out scientists at the company had accidentally spliced bacteria DNA into the cow's genes and I mean the fact that they'd unknowingly contaminated the gene pool was already catastrophic enough but the fact that it also potentially made them resistant to antibiotics would have made them a serious Hazard for future cows birthed by them and humans who were going to eat them I'm going to give this one an eight out of ten because once authorities realize what had happened they had no choice but to kill the Animals by incineration to stop the further spread of these genes and the violence is only about to escalate with number four so you've probably heard America has a bit of a gun violence problem and the debate over the solution is unbelievably deep and complex so it was equal parts worrying and hilarious when axon a company whose mission statement is to protect life very publicly announced their solution to mass shootings let's put police drones with remote operated tasers built into them in high schools my goodness what an idea why didn't I think of that don't get me wrong I applaud them for trying to make a difference but it's such a tone-deaf idea that you could very easily see actually increasing the levels of violence the announcement immediately became the laughingstock at Twitter and then what made the situation even more ridiculous was seeing the backlash axon then responded by admitting that the majority of its ethics Advisory Board actually strongly opposed the project but that the company had basically ignored them which actually makes them look even worse and led to nine of the 12 board members resigning in protest all making this axon company look like one big joke you know maybe if they'd come out with something more like Samsung's washing machines people might have taken them more seriously now thankfully axon's taser drone never made it to production the Russian chess robot did I mean much like the K5 robot from before also managed to attack a child I get you want to win but that is too far from the video it seems like the seven-year-old boy tried to make his move while the robot still thought it was its turn and so the robot ended up grabbing his finger squeezing too hard and fracturing it and then on top of that officials from the Russian Chess Federation also had some slightly strange responses to the incident like the vice president Sergey smargan kind of blamed the boy claiming that it happened because he violated the safety protocols stupid kid who committed that terrible crime and then I remember the chess federation's president made a truly insightful and emotional statement the robot broke the child's finger this is of course bad you know I wasn't sure how to feel before hearing that but now that I know it's bad really clear things up for me 8 out of 10 fail wait did I just lose now every now and again you hear an idea that's just too good to be true like the fact that you can subscribe to this Channel free and it usually ends up that that's just because the consequences haven't been thought through properly and maybe the worst example of this in history is MoviePass a subscription service that allowed users to see a movie a day in cinemas for only 9.95 a month now considering that that's barely a dollar more than the average price of a single movie ticket that's an insane deal like if you took full advantage and went to see a movie for 31 days of the month you'd be saving upwards of 95 on those tickets MoviePass could have saved mobile but wait slight issue MoviePass still had to actually pay Cinemas to get the tickets their profit model was supposed to be that they were offering a deal that was so good that the majority of consumers would buy it and not even feel the need to take full advantage of it thereby making their money back on the users who used it just once a month all the ones who just forgot they subscribed and didn't use it at all now I felt it sounds stupid that's because it is this profit model was so fragile that even if those users only bought an average of just 1.5 tickets a month MoviePass would still be spending more paying the cinemas than they were earning from subscriptions and obviously MoviePass subscribers were going to book more than 1.5 tickets people were seeing movies every other day stocking up on tickets for later dates and being so careless with what they were booking because it wasn't costing them anything that half the time they didn't even show up to the viewings leading to MoviePass leaking cash from every angle and pretty shortly filing for bankruptcy 9 out of 10 did not see that one coming but MoviePass has got nothing on the stupidity of the Gilbert u-238 atomic energy laboratory sorry what the Gilbert u238 atomic energy laboratory was a playset to launch for kids all the way back in 1950. think of it like those modern day chemistry sets that you can buy for your home except this set allowed children to create and watch nuclear reactions using real radioactive chemicals it's bad enough what an actual piece of uranium can do to a fully formed adult from meters away let alone what it can do to kids physically playing with it and sometimes eating it 10 out of 10. and speaking of which I think our cake is done so you stick this attachment in ow kind of demonstrating my own Point here okay here it is speaking of moments of stupidity I actually I had one myself not that long ago I managed to compromise my email account because one of the sites I'd signed into it had a data breach and my personal data alongside hundreds of thousands of others just got ejected into public space it's like I'm about to eject this into Myspace now this could have been a major problem if it weren't for the surf shock alert feature which monitors all the sites you have accounts with and the moment it detects a vulnerability lets you know so you can do something about it and alert is just one small part of the total surfshark package which gives you a 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Published: Wed Nov 09 2022