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Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com)
Slashdot reader swellconvivialguy writes: A new museum in Helsingborg displays more than 70 failed products and objects, including the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Sony Betamax, Harley-Davidson perfume, and the Donald Trump board game. According to curator Samuel West, "none of the companies that I contacted wanted to cooperate. I approached quite a few innovation directors and asked them for examples of failure that they've learned from. I thought it would be easy to get them to collaborate but none of them -- zero -- choose to cooperate."
The curator urges people to accept failure -- "as an essential aspect of progress and innovation."
The curator urges people to accept failure -- "as an essential aspect of progress and innovation."
Dammit, I went to Switzerland
rewriting history since 2109
Can we donate a life-size portrait of Bennett Hasselton or Timothy?
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
It's cataloging slashdotters sex lives i assume
Losing twice for President, I'm sure she knows a lot about failure!!!
Not sure I would call Google Glass a failure just yet...
World's greatest failure.
Do they also exhibit political and economic failure?
In that case large areas of present day Sweden can be seen as a huge open-air museum of failure :-(
Google: "swedish immigration policy" or something along those lines, if unaware of what I refer to.
I have always thought the Harley-Davidson Cat Collar should go in a display like this one. I bought one for our kitten once, though he's definitely not a failure of a cat. In the process of scratching and grooming he ended up rendering the Harley-Davidson logo on it illegible. Since then I have always said that Harley-Davidson can't even make a cat collar that lasts.
One.
People didn't want to pay for an expensive product with limited use-cases. Once the technology improved through Psion, Palm Pilot, iPhone; tech geeks became interested.
The augmented reality hype didn't match the reality (See: limited use-cases), plus privacy issues.
A good product doomed by cheaper VHS technology.
I don't know its marketing position but perfume contradicts the unwashed, anti-authoritarian persona marketed by H-D.
It's not enough to have brand awareness or new technology.
Did not fail.
The Museum of Failure for when the museum shuts down.
Swiss Miss anyone?
Google Glass was never meant to be a commerical product EVER. Google said so on release. It was always just an experiment.
As John Cleese once put it: "This whole thing is rather silly."
An asshat recently asked this question: "Why do you set yourself up for massive failure? All. The. Fucking. Time?"
My (corrected) response: "If you have to ask that question, than you know nothing about success."
Let me elaborate... failure is a learning process. You can learn more from failure than you can from success. If the world already views you as a failure, say, for being the fat retarded kid on the short bus, than you have absolutely nothing to lose by trying to succeed. Not once, not twice, not thrice, but as many times as possible in a lifetime. Failure becomes permanent only when you give up. I have absolutely no intention of ever giving up.
That exhibit is currently just a window that lets you look outside.
Coach.
Yes, you can visit the open-air museum of Failed Immigration Policy. It is called Malmö.
''Success has many fathers, but failure gets the mother-in-law.''
Axe to grind? You forgot your mom on that list
is the main problem I've seen with the three local dealers I've bought motorcycles from. Their web sites are down more than they're up, and two of them are still pushing Christmas ornaments. Harley's online marketing director needs to jump off of a bridge.
* Windows (any version, especially the "everyone has a touch screen" ones)
* Anonymous cowards on Slashdot
* Star Wars
* All the crap that spies on us (the ones they sell to us and the ones we don't know about)
* Piracy (real at-sea piracy, not the copyright infringement crap)
* Americans constantly whining about every other country in the fucking Universe
* All the latest Macs with on-board RAM with no possibility to add more
* All the Macs which requires a 90% disassembly to add RAM or replace the storage drive
#DeleteFacebook
Failire
Ok, so... what if the museum itself is a failure? Will they try to put the museum into itself? Won't that cause a "divide by zero" or some shit and destroy the universe?
Damn you, Sweden! You were supposed to be good guys!
#DeleteFacebook
Assange's condom
This reminded me of an idea I had which I'm pretty sure is still implausible. I'd like to have eyeglasses that are adaptive, within a certain range to give you improved vision. Basically you would be dynamically adjusting the prescription, though likely only in limited ways. In the simplest since if you needed bifocals you could replace them with these and have the correct prescription for whatever distance.
Sadly, the only two technologies I can think of are basically the use of some kind of fluid to physically change the shape of the lens or some kind of electric field to change the index of refraction. Basically you would need some kind of way to set a grid of nearly invisible or preferably totally invisible traces on both sides of the glasses and somehow control the voltage between pairs and have a material that somehow magically adjusts its index of refraction to make all that work, plus of course having electronics small enough and clever enough to control it all. Does anyone know off hand if any of that is achievable?
And Trump University, and Trump Vodka, and Trump Steaks, and ...
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
I hear they've set aside an entire wing just for Donald J Trump...
Are they in there yet?
...it's in Austria: http://nation.com.pk/entertain... The interesting thing is, if either this austrlian museum or the swedish museum close due to poor attendance they can always acquire each others collections :)
"My (corrected) response: "If you have to ask that question, than you know nothing about success.""
"THEN" you two-seat taking dumbass!
Two important points about success.
1) Generally speaking, you can't succeed if you measure your success by what other people think of you.
I don't think creimer gives a rats ass whether his spelling or grammar are perfect in a quickly tossed post, and I would venture to guess that he especially doesn't care what "AC on the internet" thinks.
2) Success has been studied in-depth, and creimer has grasped probably the most important aspect.
Your response makes me think of this George Carlin quote:
There’s a reason you don’t talk to [your HS classmates] for 25 years. Because you don’t particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days: mowing my lawn.
dunno man, all of your examples seem to have been smashing successes by the overall profit numbers..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Betamax was only a failure in the consumer market. The professional version, Betacam, was one of the most widely used videotape formats for professionals. So, eh, kinda sorta a failure, I guess.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
If there was ever an appropriate thread for the 'you fail it' (links to goatse) guy...
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
When Betamax was introduced, most US TV sets had RF input only and a maximum color resolution of 330 lines. When Betamax was introduced, most US TV sets had RF input only and a maximum color resolution of 330 lines. It was impossible to record movies or sports conveniently --- and slow-motion and freeze-framing the action of the big game was a huge driving force in VCR sales. T
you forgot windows TEN
vista
windows ME
bill gates driving sober
hollywood quality programming
actors that think they will keep getting paid like arnold used too
musicans that think the riaa will give them there money
the nsa security see there wannabe wanna cry that lasted all of 1 day ( MASTER CODER SHIT HEAD RIGHT ThERE LOL)
americans once NAFTA is gutted and canada goes with there NEW EU FREE TRADE partners
americans once mexico and canada decide ya we dont need you , you need us.
the american TECH industry ( HOWS INDIA WORKIN FOR YA)
detroit - biggest garbage dump on earth
man i could go on forever its hilarious how the OP and american thinks his self delided self is actually important
The Vasa museum is a commemoration of a spectacular failure (and is a good museum). That's naval history rather than modern tech, but the principles are the same.
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Never mind. They had one but it self-emolated.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
It appears that residents of Malmö aren't required to keep a stick firmly implanted up their backsides, unlike Stockholmers, yes.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Betamax recorders were in production for almost 40 years, the tapes were produced for 50 years. That's a high level of longevity for any digital format. Production of the units survived right into the DVD era, and it's probably DVDs which killed it in the end, not VHS. VHS had 40 years to kill it, and failed.
Additionally, Betcam is still in production as is HDCAM, they have two form factors, one of which is the same as Betamax, if you watch any anime, they are still almost all mastered on HDCAM, i.e. high-definition version of Betamax tapes.
It's only a very limited viewpoint that considers Betamax a flop / failed product. If we're going that far we should consider Apple Macs a failure because Windows is industry-standard.
Did you know that sexual assault crimes has increased by over 1000% in Sweden in three years?
You wouldn't if you lived in Sweden. They put people in prison if they say it.
Their immigration policy.
Captcha "decline". How fitting.
Yes, because battery compartments are such a profound mystery. You know, except for the billions of devices (calculators, watches, phones, remotes, answering machines, clock radios, garage door openers, etc.) that implement them without fuss or drama.
I've also replaced batteries in larger devices like UPS units and been impressed at how quick, clean and safe the whole procedure was.
I thought it would be easy to get them to collaborate but none of them -- zero -- chose to cooperate.
This lack of cooperation from the designer should in fact be a requirement for allowing their artifact in the museum.
It is the surest sign that it really does belong there.
It's right next to the big fire extinguisher.
Table-ized A.I.
I really wouldn't have expected an endeavor like that to succeed.
lol
You beat me to it. But I'm sure the target audience will (politically) correct that.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
I hope they don't mention themselves or we might have an endless loop coming on.
My love life should get an entire wing.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Did you know that this claim is total BS? Look at the numbers:
The definition of rape in >weden is broader than elsewhere in the west, including stuff that elsewhere would be charged under sexual harassment. Secondly the reporting works differently in that they estimate the total amount of offenses: So if a wife reports that her husband has been having sex with her against her will dozens of times, in most places it's filed as a single case of suspected rape for the national crime stats, but in Sweden they count each suspected instance separately meaning that a single case can easily generate tens or hundreds of incidents of rape for the stats. This means comparing Swedish stats to other western nations directly is not really sensible.
Lol, I can guarantee you've never lived in Sweden (me neither but I live next door in Finland and visit regularly and have friends there) . There's extensive discussion about crime stats as there's one party in the parliament that's trying to do exactly what you're trying to do, which is to insinuate that the fluctuation in the numbers is due to immigrants somehow raping people en masse on the streets, which is simply not true.
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
It should have read:
"Museum of failure fails to open"
I hope the museum displays the letter requesting donation of failed products as a paradoxical failure. The letter failed to gather donations, thereby ensuring that the letter itself was display-worthy and a success in terms of boosting museum stocks. The museum cannot display a successful letter, which makes it a failure...
"Failures" can lead to successes.
In the early 1980s(?), San Francisco passed a law that required taxis to have a special kind of brake light on the back of the taxi. The light had to blink when the taxi driver was pressing on the brakes. The idea was that the blinking light would alert other drivers to the fact that the taxi was braking, and that this alert would cut down on accidents.
The problem was that the blinking light was very distracting for other drivers. So the SF government reversed itself, and removed that requirement. So the short-lived law seemed like an expensive failure.
But shortly afterward, third brake lights (CHMSLs) started being much more popular than they had been. If your car didn't have one built into it, you could go to a car repair place and get one put onto it. You got a discount on your car insurance if your car had a CHMSL.
Since CHMSLs became popular so soon after the SF taxi brake law, I'm guessing that the SF taxi law (a seeming failure) led to CHMSLs being popular, then mandatory, and preventing a lot of accidents.
You beat me to it. But I'm sure the target audience will (politically) correct that.
Maybe you should visit the country instead of reading about it on Breitbart from sources who claim to be experts on Sweden and haven't been in the country for 20 years. Prices on vegetables and fruits could be lower though.
But for some people a country like Sweden has to be a failure, because it doesn't fit their world view.
What multiculturalism, the darkies that are raping your daughter in the ass while you are at work?
but that doesn't seem in the spirit of it.
What if the museum fails - should it then be a proper subset of itself?
The only thing missing in there is my invention of an empty bottle that you can put in your fridge in case one of your guests doesn't want to drink anything.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why? Only now Swedes can understand what it feels like to live in a US metropolis. If that doesn't bring the cultures together, understanding each other's problems...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The real failure was that time your father forgot to use a condom.
There's extensive discussion about crime stats as there's one party in the parliament that's trying to do exactly what you're trying to do, which is to insinuate that the fluctuation in the numbers is due to immigrants somehow raping people en masse on the streets, which is simply not true.
Well, if it were immediately obvious upon entering Swedish streets, heads would roll. Increased crime always lives in the region between not happening at all and people going into civil war for it, so of course you won't see that.
Ezekiel 23:20
Just asking...
The biggest failure as a programmer is Andy Williams of Dewsbury. The highlight of his career was writing a program called WAN.EXE. This prompted for your name on the command line then wrote your name followed by " is a wanker"
Please mod as informative
...it's in Austria:
http://nation.com.pk/entertain...
The interesting thing is, if either this austrlian museum or the swedish museum close due to poor attendance they can always acquire each others collections :)
The Austrian museum could just create an exhibit about the Swedish museum.
Are you thinking of starting up a Museum of failed Fail Museums ?
That's some top tier lawyer tap dancing shilling you did there. Congratulations on being a rape apologist.
Of course you can twist "statistics" to make it appear more rosey, when you are willing to redefine what "is" is (or in this case "rape")
You seem to like studies. How about you investigate the poll of Stockholm women released two weeks ago, which showed a majority afraid to leave the home after dark, and 1/3rd having experienced unwanted sexual touching by African or Arab migrants.
Let us say, they have vastly overestimated the revenue potential of failure porn. When this museum fails, would it add itself as the last entry before going defunct?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
5 years in beta for gmail. What would you call that much time if they were not willing to say this is done?
Of course you can twist "statistics" to make it appear more rosey, when you are willing to redefine what "is" is (or in this case "rape")
Yeah, that's precisely what you're doing. Because GP showed how the statistics are not directly comparable, but you want to compare them anyway.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Never mind. They had one but it self-emolated.
Were you going for an insensible pun about emokids here, or should everyone just ignore everything you say forever and ever amen because you use words you don't understand?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
(now some of these may have been great products that ultimately and unfortunately began, contributed to, or represent the demise of a product market or line for the corresponding company -- the edsel (aka "the lemon"), the nova car on sale in spanish speaking countries, what was the representative palm?, blackberry storm, windows phone, the galaxy note, the franklin covey planner, ...
a couple of these saw stellar product lives but for one reason or another had market share shrivel up for one or more reasons.
If the museum has low attendance, the name will take a whole new meaning.
I would have sent my copy but I've already donated it to the London Dungeon for their modern horror exhibition.
Rob Howells
...my "Musseum of Bad Taste"
They definitely need to have a "Cue Cat" on display.
I bought the Trump board game over 20 years ago when it was first released. It is an advanced, deal-based version of Monopoly, and I still enjoy it to this day. Hardly a failure!
I hear they're working on a deal to host the Trump Presidential Library.
It will be 'uge. The best library in human history. Because he has all the best words, and will be donating them! Well, except stupid, because that is the best word, so he's keeping that one for himself.
I have the best, but there is no better word than stupid. Right? There is none, there is none. There’s no, there’s no, there’s no word like that
(actual DJT quote)
But it will still have so many words, you'll be sick of all that reading.
Ah yes, the Museum of Failure...
I understand that they have an entire wing devoted to my ex-wife.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Swedes are the most sad sack loser people on the planet. They worship failure. They love failing
It's called stockholm syndrome for a reason.
And here is our meta-exhibit of failures that were previously in a failure museum that failed.
Delicious.
Remember Domino's sorta-brilliant "Failure is an Option." campaign? Trying new things that might not work moved a moribund business into a pizza to be reckoned with.
Yugo were in production for over 40 years, they had to stop briefly because NATO bombed their manufacturing plant, however, that did not stop them (despite an obvious sign from God).
That is a high level of longevity for a vehicle that you could replace most of the parts with tinfoil and duct tape.
It has even won an award in Car Talk magazine (ok granted it was worst car of the century)
Only a very limited viewpoint would consider it flop
My only remaining goal in life is to somehow become a large enough failure to have a place in their prestigious museum.
Ok mr never-makes-a-typo. "self-immolated".
What can I say. Chrome spell-checker didn't complain.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
The leftist feminists (SJWs) blames white Swedish males for all sexual assualts and rapes
The good country of Pakistan. Failure of the first order.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
The Swedish king says "We need to project our Naval power by adding more decks full of canons to my new ship"
The naval architect says "That'll make it too top-heavy!"
The king says "We need to add more bronze statues to the upper decks to show them who's the boss"
The naval architect says "Not a good idea!"
The king says "Do it!"
The ship gets launched, and promptly rolls over and sinks to the bottom of the harbor.
End of Swedish naval power in the Baltic.
Maybe a failure of the opening of the Museum of Failure could be considered a huge success, in keeping with the museum's mandate and theme? The perfect way to open a "Museum of Failure"?
Inquiring minds want to know!
This week's RetroSpective discusses Sweden's 'Museum of Failure' which last year became the first museum to include itself as an exhibit.
<Documentary-article continues in the textually-warm tones exuded by a seventies icon wearing brown and orange, whilst draped over a sunken sofa>.
Requiem for the American Dream
The Fail MuseumÂs biggest failure is itself.
What can I say. Chrome spell-checker didn't complain.
Maybe Chrome is the emo browser.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
You are quite simply a liar and the Swedish government is covering up crime stats:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/...
Did it smell like ass? Real toilet water?
Yea.. Dear Company, you had a really sucky product and we're opening a museum of failure, could you help us with one of your failures? They expected them to respond? Really?