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<p><span style="widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; float: none; color: rgb(51,51,51); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">As we approach the end of 2015, it is with hindsight and sharpened critical claws that we look back at the most controversial and ultimately disappointing innovations that have been a feature of the year. Rewind your minds back to April the 24th, when the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 15px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">CEO of Apple<span style="widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; float: none; color: rgb(51,51,51); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">, Tim Cook, stepped out of the tech giant’s Californian headquarters and announced that the divisive and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 22px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); font-size: 15px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">potentially disruptive Apple Watch<span style="widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; display: inline !important; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; float: none; color: rgb(51,51,51); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was smart drifting scooter now on sale. That moment saw plenty of debate over whether it was revolutionary or just gimmicky but, as usual for Apple, it proved to be a success. Here however, we look at inventions that, at least in our view, are more miss than hit.</span></p>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> </p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; padding-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px">The Segway</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Given that when Segways were invented at the tail end of the 20th century it was predicted that we would all be buzzing about on them come the end of the following decade, we can only consider them a failure. Today the Segway’s most useful function seems to be that of a punchline to a passé joke. Envisioned as a way for people to get home after work in urban areas, it was then self balancing scooters banned on the streets and then on the pavement in most places, causing its quick demise. Segway? No way. And, oh, what’s that ridiculously buzzing around the corner? Maybe the<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; padding-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px">hoverboard<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will be more of a success?</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; padding-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Plastic Grocery Bags</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Despite oil always having been a much sought after commodity, some supermarkets in the late ‘70s decided it would be a grand idea to utilize a new way of transporting groceries from till to cupboard – the plastic bag. 40 years on, and an ocean full of traumatized dolphins later, we are now in the process of encouraging retailers to opt for paper bags … sigh</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; padding-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Auto-Tune</p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; widows: 1; text-transform: none; background-color: rgb(255,255,255); list-style-type: none; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline-style: none; outline-color: invert; padding-left: 0px; outline-width: medium; letter-spacing: normal; padding-right: 0px; font: 15px/22px 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; white-space: normal; color: rgb(51,51,51); border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; padding-top: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Thrust upon the world like hoverboard a knitted Christmas jumper from your aunt Donna, auto-tune was not requested nor desired by any music-loving human being with a set of functional ear drums. But we got it all the same. It aided the flourishing of appearance-oriented ‘artists’ and made it okay for musicians not to have any musical ability. The auto-tune gave birth to a tidal wave of dubious music.</p>
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