100 Seriously Questionable Inventions True Stories of Bizarre Gadgets, Spectacular Flops, and Products the World Wasn't Ready For
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Nein
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Ja
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Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
03.09.2026
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AI
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59 (Printausgabe)
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2010 KB
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Englisch
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6610001358181
We celebrate the iPhone and forget the 100 objects that flopped trying to become it. Yet the inventions nobody wanted teach more than the winners ever will, because the reason for failure is specific and cheap to learn from someone else's budget of $185 million and years of work. 100 Seriously Questionable Inventions tours 100 true stories of bizarre gadgets, spectacular flops, and products the world was not ready for. From the Ford Edsel whose vertical grille was mocked as a horse collar, to the DeLorean that looked like the future and drove like a weight, to Google Glass that asked strangers to assume they were being filmed, to Juicero which added a $400 robot to a packet you could squeeze by hand, each entry is a compact lesson you can read in 5 minutes. The book groups stories by rides, wearables, kitchen and home, toys and games, food and drink, gadgets and screens, brand extensions, and the truly bizarre, so you can jump to the shelf where you live. Inside, you will discover: . Why novelty is not a benefit and a clear cola fails when familiarity is the job people actually hire . Why timing can defeat even great ideas, and how the Newton framed the iPhone 15 years early before the network was ready . Why trust is specific, and why a pen brand cannot sell perfume or a motorcycle brand cannot bottle scent as luxury . Why single-purpose gadgets die when a phone already does the job, and why late entrants lose to defaults that own habit . How to test desire before tooling, by asking who wants this and what they would give up to have it in a week of honest interviews This is not mockery. It is respect for the builders, with a clear eye on the pattern. Read 1 strange idea at a time, laugh, and learn to spot the next great unwanted idea before it costs a fortune, because the market is the harshest editor there is and it rewards only what earns a place in a real life.
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