Greatest Fails: Worst tech product ideas ever
Spray-on hair. New Coke. Pat Boone's heavy metal album. Some products are such bad ideas that some executive must have been snorting canned air before letting them out the door. Unfortunately, hardware and software vendors are some of the worst offenders, releasing half-baked gadgets and fatally flawed operating systems while turning a deaf ear to anyone who informs them that the emperor has no clothes. These are 10 of the worst tech ideas of all time. 1. Android laptops Android and clamshell computing go together like black licorice and mayonnaise. That hasn't stopped HP from releasing the sorry SlateBook 14, which puts Google's operating system on a laptop that cannot fold or detach into a tablet. What users really need on a laptop or desktop is a user interface that works really well with a keyboard and touchpad or mouse and provides plenty of windows for multitasking. Unfortunately, stock Android doesn't support multiple windows or any kind of split-screen...