"The 'Next Big Things' That Never Were: A Look at 50 Flops"

A discussion on Reddit highlights various products and trends that were once considered to be the next big thing but ended up being major flops. These include the Segway, the expectation of a pandemic baby boom, blockchain technology, motion controls in video games, modular phones, the Internet of Things, the DCEU, Kinect for Xbox 360, film adaptations of young adult novels, solar roads, Clear Pepsi, the Tesla Cybertruck, Disney's Atlantis, Apple's Vision Pro headset and Ping social network, and emu meat. Despite initial hype, these products failed to meet expectations or were overtaken by other innovations.