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The Biggest Technology Flops of the Decade
(OK, we have another chance this decade. Good luck all!)

by David Lagesse
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The new millennium was born amid an Internet bubble that soon burst, not a good omen for the technology industry. The sector rallied, however, and continued to produce a remarkable run of new gadgets.

But it had more than its share of flops, as well. Here are the 10 biggest debacles of the decade:

3. CueCat

This little feline launched as the missing link between print publications and the Web. The idea was that readers would scan a special code on the page and not have to type in a URL to find related information on the Web. But using the scanner, leashed to a PC, was even more awkward, and the CueCat soon died. Some users also had worried about privacy since each cat had a unique serial number. Millions of the scanners were later sold at auction; they can be readily found as cheap bar-code readers.

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