Sometimes even the best can fail and at the most inappropriate of times, leaving you stunned and confounded; Zidane’s legendary headbutt in the 2006 world cup surprised even the casual fan. Technology isn’t invincible either; it can leave Bill Gates speechless in face of a blue screen of death in Windows 98 in front of hundreds. Today we take a look at 10 worst technological failures that left lawsuits to near-mayhem in their wake.
No 10. Hubble Space Telescope
A 2.5 Billion dollar device, which finally goes to space, sends back some pictures and which shockingly enough, are all blurry. The problem was with the telescope’s calibration instruments, as later it was found out. The problem was fixed using corrective lenses three years later.
No 9. Dell laptop explosions
At a conference in Japan, Dell’s laptop suddenly burst into flames. There were multiple explosions and the fireworks continued for a good 5 minutes or so. It turned out that batteries were the ones that exploded and eventually Dell announced recall of 22 thousand of their notebook batteries. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
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Great list…
Arbitrary choices based on passing familiarity and personal importance. You failed to mention, for example, that the Hubble telescope has provided many of the most important astronomical images of this age. This article is as worthwhile as it is insightful.
Thank you, thank you for acknowledging the importance of Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s contribution to the existence of us today. Operation Able Archer 83 was a perceived as a serious threat to the Kremlin back then