Highly Unreliable Inventions, Not Intended for Application

The catalog tracks unreliable tech launches, design misfires, and hype-driven gadgets so you don’t fall for them. Browse the fresh disasters below or search for something specific.

iOS Liquid Glass

Avoid

Apple’s new ‘Liquid Glass’ design promised elegance but delivered unreadable icons, fuzzy buttons, and Windows Vista flashbacks.

  • ios
  • liquid-glass
  • design-flop
  • unusable

Google+

Avoid

Every user was a ghost town mayor.

  • ghost-town
  • social
  • shutdown
  • avoid

Internet Explorer

Avoid

The world’s

  • legacy
  • slow
  • insecure
  • deprecated

MySpace

Avoid

Custom profiles that gave everyone seizures.

  • nostalgia
  • social
  • obsolete
  • music

Palm Pilot

Avoid

Once futuristic, now a museum piece.

  • pda
  • retro
  • obsolete
  • nostalgia

Samsung Galaxy Note 7

Avoid

A flagship that turned into a fire hazard.

  • recall
  • battery
  • hazard
  • avoid

Segway

Proceed with Caution

Promised to replace cars, replaced mall cops.

  • hype
  • mobility
  • awkward
  • tourist

Yahoo! Messenger

Avoid

Where your 2000s crush probably ghosted you.

  • nostalgic
  • obsolete
  • chat
  • avoid

Clubhouse

Proceed with Caution

The invite-only hype app no one talks about anymore.

  • social
  • fad
  • obsolete

NFT Monkey JPEGs

Avoid

A status symbol… if your status is “scammed.”

  • nft
  • crypto
  • scam

Windows Vista

Avoid

Where progress bars went to hang forever.

  • os
  • windows
  • slow
  • bloat

WinRAR License Reminder

Avoid

The eternal popup nobody ever paid for.

  • nagware
  • popup
  • software relic

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Avoid

A bait-and-switch shooter where xenomorphs forgot how to attack.

  • funny
  • roast
  • failure

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

Avoid

A racing game where your truck phases through reality and still tells you “YOU’RE WINNER!”.

  • funny
  • roast
  • failure

Daikatana

Avoid

John Romero’s overhyped shooter that drowned in bugs, bad AI, and worse marketing.

  • funny
  • roast
  • failure

Duke Nukem Forever

Avoid

Fifteen years of delays delivered a crude museum piece masquerading as a shooter.

  • funny
  • roast
  • failure

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600)

Avoid

A five-week movie tie-in that buried both players and cartridges in pits.

  • funny
  • roast
  • failure

Fallout 76

Proceed with Caution

Bethesda launched an online wasteland packed with bugs, scandals, and empty NPC chairs.

  • funny
  • roast
  • failure