Gadgetory

in the blinding light of all the hot new gadgets we get to see week to week people have a tendency to gloss over the products and trends that aren't faring so well so with the year coming to a close it seemed an appropriate time to look back and reflect on the heights tech trends that went nowhere in 2013 starting off at number 5 smartwatches these may still yet become a thing but this was not the year of the SmartWatch that everyone predicted people finally got their pebbles and Samsung did a good job spinning that Galaxy gear SmartWatch but most of us are still trying to wait to see what Apple can do see if they can actually make these things cool I have a feeling that the nerds stink on this trend may have to air out a little bit before we ever see an eye watch at number 4 desktop PCs it's been doom and gloom for the desktop computer for years now but 2013 was supposed to turn the tide we saw a genuinely exciting and innovative Windows 8 machines and all shapes and sizes hybrids and giant touchscreen tabletop PCs plus a meaningful bump and processor performance there is a perfect storm of reasons to upgrade your desktop computer right now but no one is doing it we're also not going for number three Twitter music launched in april this year Twitter music sent shockwaves to the music industry oh who would it kill first Spotify iTunes Pandora will our children even remember a time before Twitter music I'm willing to bet most of you probably forgot this thing existed until I reminded you I don't even know as Twitter remembers it exists and their post IPO haze they probably don't really care it's just a way for them to stream music to their yacht party speaking of companies with more money than sense at number two Facebook home the latest attempts from Facebook to completely take over your phone washed with the equally doomed HTC first facebook home replaced the entirely functional homescreen of your Android phone with a window into your friends Facebook activity you never have to leave Facebook again it's just always there in your pocket desperately trying to figure out how to monetize everything you do not sure why people didn't go for and that leaves us with the number one tech Turkey of 2013 at number one blackberry remember the good old days when rim executives are so high on life and gin that they had to be tied down during air travel and they still had the winning spirit to chew through their restraints these days morale is so low they can't even muster a scandal not that it would matter you could have my class of readings back to working with Justin Bieber holding a burning Canadian flag and no one would even bother to report it at this point so there you go five of the biggest tech industry fails of 2013 more top fives including my top 5 tech to be thankful for visit top 5 cnet.com Donald Bell thanks for watching you