I recently wrote a story about his dead tech products will be in five years. Boy, was I surprised by the response! Who knew that people could so passionately about DVD backups?
But it is the passion for the status quo that some technologies are long after the end of their useful life holds. And there are other products that simply will not die, because no matter how inefficient or clumsy as they may be, nothing indicates that it is better to come (or at least better at a reasonable price).
Five, in particular should go the way of the dodo long ago, but hang on and continue to flourish in some cases.
VHS
Those of us who have grown up in the 70s, have a soft spot in our hearts for video recorders. They brought us many advances we take for granted - "12:00." Movies in the home, to watch time-shifted program, and clocks, flashing permanently, but this fragile VHS tapes made available to a bad image, even if they were new and they do not keep well over time or repeated use. And the VCR functions are replaced by far superior to Blu-ray, DVR and movie-streaming products.
Still keeps going thanks to VHS, existing home libraries of films and videos wedding. Panasonic, Samsung and many other manufacturers which have VHS players and VHS tapes are still widely used. Remember, these tapes will not last forever. To copy your precious memories in a different format it before you lose them.
Film Cameras
It is amazing to think that using digital cameras available to the thousands of 16-megapixel resolution images without crowding, film cameras were still around.
But soldiers with disposable film cameras and artistic photography. There is still a case be made that disposable cameras are perfect to take to plop on the table at weddings or other events, the guests their own shots (though I will put my money on an app for smartphones in the near future, the same function .) But the budding lomography community proves that it is a place to come for the film in the art for a long time.
Incandescent
Perhaps the inefficient technology in use today, light bulbs convert only 10 percent of the energy it into light, the rest is the loss of heat. This is great if you are making Hasbro Easy-Bake ovens, but not if your goal is to reduce global energy consumption.
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are three to five times more efficient than incandescent bulbs and last 10 times longer. But CFL bulbs take a little longer to reach full brightness and back, plus, means that its unusual shape, they will not fit in a couple of lamps. And then there is the issue of CFL bulbs that contain mercury and special disposal handling. The result? CFL sales are real, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. It looks like Easy-Bake ovens churning out cookies for some time to come.
Dial-up Internet
Ah yes, brings the nostalgic peek and shriek of a dial-up connection is still a tear to my eye. But I certainly would never back the days of a 56K modem, when I carried my 30Mbps FiOS line, which is more than 500 times faster online.
But nearly 3 percent of U.S. households - more than 3 million - are still on a dial-up conducted in 2011, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The primary reasons for switching from consumers were "do not need it" and "too expensive", with "lack of availability" is an important factor in rural areas. So a file that takes me 10 seconds to download a dial-up users for an hour and 20 minutes, and they do not think they need broadband? Yep die, some habits hard.
Rear Projection TVs
Super-thin LCD and plasma TVs in fat, heavy cathode ray tube TVs on the big tech business in the sky, but they do not have to kill in a position to rear projection TVs. Although rear-projection TVs are about a foot thick, suffer from poor viewing angles and a light bulb that needs replaced every few thousand hours, they also offer a value proposition that simply can not be beat.
You can pick up offers 65-inch Mitsubishi 1080p WD-65 738, 3-D and Internet applications for under $ 1,000 on Amazon. An equivalent 65-inch Panasonic Viera TC-P65ST30 costs more than $ 2,300 on Amazon. And if you have the space, the 82-inch Mitsubishi WD-82 738 rear projection set at $ 2,000 on Amazon - a plasma of this size would cost more than my wedding.
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