Smartphones Ten of the Shortest-Lived Tech Products Ever Ten gadgets and services whose existences were nasty, brutish, and short. Share Read Later prev13 of 12nextView All Full List Ten of the Shortest-Lived Tech Products EverWOW! from CompuServe (1996-1997)Apple Power Mac G4 Cube (2000-2001)Kerbango Internet Radio (2000-2001)Sony eVilla (2001)3Com Audrey (2000-2001)Palm Foleo (2007)Google Wave (2009-2010)Microsoft Kin (2010)Cisco FlipLive (2011)HP TouchPad (2011)So what can we learn here?