The top ten tech flops of 2007

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By Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 20 Dec 2007 at 15:19

8. Myvu Universal Edition

Boasting the kind of aesthetics Eddie Murphy left behind in 1985, the Myvu glasses theoretically allow you to enjoy movies while keeping an eye on the world around you.

And while you stagger about, half blind, with a tiny video display partially obscuring your view, you can wonder to yourself if this was the worst £100 you've ever spent.

9. Philips LX2000 + 26PF532

The idea of buying an all-in-one media centre PC is that everything works together perfectly. This system promised so much, and the components looked great on paper, but it just didn't deliver the goods as a whole - just like the England football squad, really.

10. New Standards Keyboard

Have you ever tried writing a letter whilst one over the eight? It's a bit like typing on this alphabetically ordered keyboard.

In our highly unscientific tests, it took our team of 10 testers an average of 8.6 seconds to type the sentence "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" on the QWERTY keyboard, and a full 37.3 seconds to hunt down the letters and achieve a partial nervous breakdown on the NSK. Genius.