The Biggest Gadget Flops of 2013

There's always next year.

Let's take a look back at the year that was 2013: Apple released the iPhone 5S and 5C, Google dropped the Moto X, Samsung released the Galaxy Gear, and both Sony and Microsoft released new game consoles. Exciting, to say the least. It's easy to think of the spectacular and the flashy, but what about the gadgets that slipped underneath the radar? The things that will have to live out Christmas hiding in shame, with fingers crossed on New Year's Eve hoping that 2014 will be better? Yes, that's right: what about the things that FAILED? That's what we've gathered in this end-of-the-year edition of The Biggest Gadget Flops of 2013. From the bad, the terrible, to worst of it.

Hey, don't be too depressed: some of these gadgets will live to see another day, but many of them were dead on arrival. 

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HTC First

BlackBerry Z10

Google Chromebook Pixel

To be fair, Google had a horrible idea with the Chromebook. It's a laptop that needs to be connected to the Internet practically at all times since it uses web-based apps. The device itself was praised for its performance, but at a price of $1,300, you'd honestly be crazy to pick that up over the number of other true laptops you could get at that price. Microsoft even enlisted the guy's from Pawn Star's to make fun of it

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Polaroid iM1836 Android Mirrorless Camera

Barnes & Noble Nook

Microsoft Surface RT

Nintendo Wii U

The Desktop

HealthCare.gov

The biggest fail of the year in technology. Okay, this isn't a gadget, we know. But for those around the country who were affected, and couldn't get access to the health care options they needed when the time came, the HealthCare.gov fiasco of the Obama administration was a complete failure that will be remembered for a long time. We're sure a few laptops and desktops were smashed out of sheer anger by would-be users. Things are looking up, though: just this week, the website was able to handle some 800,000 unique users, and the site processed 18,000 enrollment requests. Yikes. But that's double their previous record.

Sigh. 

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