12 Advanced but not successful digital products

Most of the time, a new concept product in the initial stage of the IPO will not achieve great success, even if its concept is impressive. This phenomenon is more common in the IT Digital world, and many products need to evolve over many years before they win the market, such as the most popular smartphones. The following 12 digital products, in a variety of areas or failures, or achieved a certain degree, but not the first, but in a way, they are the beacon of the successor. 1. At&t picturephone videophone (1964) at the 1964 World Expo in New York, American telecom operator At&t demonstrated the Videophone service, using a small CRT display with a built-in camera, similar to today's online video service. 6 years later, this product is actually put into the market, but because of bulky and expensive, not really promote success. However, it has far-reaching significance for the current video chat service of various electronic devices. 2. Electronic quarterback Handheld Gaming machine (1978) Yes, the first handheld game is not Nintendo's Game Boy, but a variety of single game of the Palm machine, this Electronic quarterback is one of them. It uses simple rough lines to simulate a baseball game, you can see the heavy buttons on the machine, presumably not have too good feel, but at that time, it is the children's dream of Christmas gifts. It was not until 12 that Nintendo Game Boy, who could change the game, was truly successful, whether you believe it or not. 3. The Minitel multimedia Content Service (1982) mentions France, the first thought may be such as Louis Vuitton luxury, but in fact, France is also an early pioneer of science and technology. In 1982, the Minitel PC provided the basis for subsequent internet shopping by offering digital media content such as newspaper types. In the mid 1990s, nearly half of the French used the Minitel service, which can be said to be the predecessor of Internet applications. 4. Mattel Power Glove Game Gloves (1989) Maybe in 2006, when the Wii came on the market, you were deeply moved by the features of the body, but in fact, similar concepts had been proposed by Mattel Power Glove as early as 1989 years ago. This compatible with the Nintendo game of the game gloves, with a sense of the operation of the function, but unfortunately because of the technical constraints at that time, resulting in poor operation accuracy, can not achieve success. However, its impact on the somatosensory operation is far-reaching. 5. Logitech Fotoman Digital Camera (1990) The world's first digital camera is not from our familiar canon, Nikon or Olympus, but the famous accessories factoryBusiness Logitech. In 1990, Logitech launched the Fotoman digital camera, with 320x240 pixel resolution and built-in 1MB storage space, priced at $980 (at the time of about 4700 yuan). Fotoman is not successful in addition to the high price, and it does not have a built-in LCD screen, the need to connect the PC to use, very inconvenient. 6. The Apple Newton Handheld PDA (1993), an Apple-launched PDA, can be said to have made a huge contribution to the handheld and even the future ipad. At the time, Apple Newton, which had 336x240 pixel pressure sensing screens, 20MHz ARM 610 RISC processors and 40MB ROM, was the most advanced personal handheld, with a built-in range of utilities including calendars, calculators, and unit conversions. 7. WebTV Set-top Box (1996) Currently, intelligent TV with built-in Internet capabilities is already very common, as well as Android set-top box products, and can turn ordinary TV into smart TV. The first proposed concept was a 1996-listed web TV set-top box that uses dial-up networking to access the web and e-mail, but does not actually have Internet TV services. 8. Qualcomm PDQ Mobile Phone (1999) from Qualcomm's PDQ mobile phone, can be said to be the embryonic form of smartphones, the machine has a mobile phone function, and built-in a large touch screen, you can use the stylus to operate, built-in flip-type keyboard, It also appears to be a source of inspiration for products such as Ericsson and Sony Ericsson. 9. HP Jornada 720 mini computer (2001) HP Company launched in 2001 Jornada 720 mini PCs, can be seen as netbooks, the predecessor of the Ultra. It has a 6.5-inch touch screen (640x240 pixel), which was stunning at the time, with 206MHz ARM processors and Windows 2000 handheld systems that were powerful in performance and functionality, and also built in a handheld version of Office software to meet day-to-day job requirements. However, it does not have a built-in WiFi and requires an extra purchase of the type II PC Card, which is a lack of experience with the technical limitations. HP Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 Tablet (2002) comes 2002, we will find that the shape of PC products has been updated evolution. The HP Compaq Tablet PC TC1000 is a tablet computer that has a 10.4-inch, running Windows system and built-in Intel Pentium M processor, can use the trackpad for painting and can be used on an external keyboard, and looks very current to the latest Windows The 8 hybrid design pc is very similar. Of course, HP Compaq Tablet PC TC1The 000 fuselage is too heavy and does not support capacitive touch features, and the Windows XP Tablet PC system is also far less friendly than Windows 8. But there is no doubt that it is the veteran of the current hybrid design pc. Xybernaut Poma Wearable Portable PC (2002) Wearable smart devices can be said to be very popular in 2013, but the concept has already appeared in 2002. Xybernaut Poma Wearable is a portable PC, the price is very expensive, is actually a running Windows CE handheld devices, users can be like to wear a Walkman to carry it at any time, and through the head-wearing 800x600 color screen to see the content, can support IE browser, Windows Media Player and Outlook software, is simply the retro version of Google glasses. 12. Microsoft Zune (2006) said MP3 player, perhaps you can only remember the Apple ipod, in fact, Microsoft has also launched the same type of Zune, but also adopted a built-in high-capacity hard drive design, can store thousands songs. Although it has not been successful under the ipod, but its design for Windows Phone after the inspiration, but also let Microsoft began to dabble in the Internet content domain, gradually evolved into the current Xbox music, film and television, such as a full range of multimedia online services.