AI. Bitcoin.
Every single anti depressant, anti anxiety or anti anything drug that acts like a placebo.
According to Dr. Chris Palmer and Dr. Georgia Ede, you’re more likely to get better results by just changing your diet.
Remember how Google’s Find My Network was supposed to be as good or better than Apple’s. We put a tracker in a checked bag. Couldn’t track it from once we lost sight till when it was 10 feet from me.
But, best-case scenario, you could have committed a sex crime!
A Willy Wonka experience in Scotland
Gingerthe Segway was supposed to revolutionize the way we view cities!TBF electric scooters are doing that now. Dude was just ahead of his time.
Also if you take “the way we view cities” literally, they definitely did since they became a popular way for tourists to view a city.
Useful product but where is the revolution
In the wheels obviously
Ahead of his time? It is a different product working with a different (and far older) principle?
The principle here that matters is “personal electric low-skill vehicle”. Segway tried it first, but electric scooters were way cheaper, and the GPS/smartphone technology helped it a lot.
The hype leading up to its reveal was wild.
I remember trying one in a section of a science museum as a kid!
I’d have a much shorter list of what products did live up to their advertised claims…
Dating sites. Complete useless trash.
I’d have to agree. I met my wife on OKCupid in 2016 and almost immediately after that it changed several key features and became complete garbage.
I’d already been doing contact juggling by the time the fushigi came out, but the ads implied that you could just… perform a skill by buying their product. It’d be like a company marketing the “mystical multiball” that shows people juggling 7 objects and implying you too could do that if you only owned their particular set.
Oh yeah, I 'member. I opened mine super excitedly and was immediately disappointed that it “didn’t work”. I couldn’t find any way to activate it. It then clicked that it was a regular ball the whole time and the people in the commercials were just skilled.
Fallout 76.
Kirby vacuums. I got one for free from a neighbor and she included the invoice by mistake. $2200 for a vacuum that smells like burning and can’t lift pet hair. Brush is working, bag is new, carpet is being lifted from the pad. But man, this thing fails at pet hair.
There was a brand that worked by filling the tank with water and applying a vacuum to use the water as a filter. They weren’t amazing but they cost like $2k in 2001 money. My ex had one that her father had bought and I finally convinced her to get rid of it once it started shocking her.
We still have one and it works really well. I suspect they were over filling the water reservoir
bong-vacuums
really? we’ve had ours for 21 years or so, and it still works well. admittedly we use the dyson almost exclusively now
Rather obvious that ‘What product did live up to its advertised claims?’ is a more useful question…
Cast iron skillet… Lodge
There are many products like that but I agree with over all sentiment. Most shit ain’t right.
However, we as customers also have choices, considering this was posted within this comment section:
Gotham Steel pans. They work decent the first couple times but I found the non-stick part of it wore down real quick
Why are people buying something like this?
Yes, but then people can’t have a nice whinge about it.
Air-up water bottles. When I bought mine it claimed to be a better water bottle all-around.
Its primary gimmick of tricking the brain into tasting the scent works well, I did drink a lot more water without needing actual flavouring. The fact that I could (unofficially) 3D print my own reusable flavouring pods to be a little more eco-friendly was a nice surprise and the reason I decided to try it.
The “better bottle” part is utter horse crap. It leaks when tipped over, even when tightly closed. Their marketing team went as far as adding “sip, don’t tip” to the instructions instead of making the cap properly seal.
Drinking from it was a chore as there was no water pressure and the constant bubbling (lets be real, its more like wet fart) noises made it impossible to use in silent settings.
I ended up going back to reusing a disposable bottle until it leaks even though the thought and feeling of something flavourless being in my mouth is revolting (its a sensory thing).
Holy cow. It’s like someone thought “the human race isn’t using enough single use plastic, how can we pump up those numbers? Maybe we can tie it in to the basic consumption of tap water.”
have you tried plain soda water? the carbonation might make it interesting enough to be drinkable even though it’s flavorless. if you get a drinkmate or something like that it’s fairly cheap to make at home
I’m one of those creatures that flattens out fizzy drinks before drinking xD
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker. The movie was already getting a bad rep pre-release, and in response to potentially sales-damaging claims that Palpatine was coming back, Disney had Ian McDiarmid explicitly claim he wasn’t. A bad movie where there was nobody to point a finger to became a bad movie where there was someone to do it to. Then he passed away shortly after. I witnessed this mess all go down in theaters.
Ian McDiarmid didn’t pass away. But yes, this movie might be the single worst cinematic disappointment I’ve ever witnessed in my life. I’ll never watch it again.
Crystal Skull springs to mind as a close second
Gosh dang it, I was fooled by another death rumor.
Gotham Steel pans. They work decent the first couple times but I found the non-stick part of it wore down real quick
We can add Made In pans to this.
All? Or just the non-stick?
I haven’t seen the data on all but the nonstick is trash in a way that shows zero potential for their other stuff. Crap materials, uneven heating, etc. The very worst in almost every category.
