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Is the Sega Dreamcast the Biggest Tech Flop of the Past Decade?
Created 07/17/2009 - 7:45am

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Is the Sega Dreamcast the Biggest Tech Flop of the Past Decade?

Posted 07/17/09 at 09:45:25 AM  by Paul Lilly

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For every Core i7, GTX 295, and other technological marvels, there's a piece of hardware sitting on the other end of the technological spectrum that, for one reason or another, just didn't make it. Maybe the design was flawed, or in the case of HD-DVD, it simply lost the marketing battle to a competing format.

Whatever the reasons might be, CNet has composed a list of what it believes are the 25 biggest tech flops of the past decade. Ranking No. 1 on the list is the Sega Dreamcast console simply because after staying on the market for just three years after it was originally released in 1998, "it didn't make it."

Other items on the list include DVD Audio, Sirius satellite radio, the two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle known as the Segway, UMDs, and more than a few handheld devices.

Spy the full list here, then hit the jump and tell us what you think are the biggest tech flops of the past decade.

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