Top 3 Gadgets that were ahead of their time, and why they'll reappear in our future 👀
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You know time is flying when Google Glass was 10 years ago… wow.
Or HoloLens
Nah it feels like 10 years ago to me
More like 7 years old
TERRARRIA MAN
@@REXae86 i remember those lol
Don’t know how nobody has mentioned the PSP being ahead of its time. It came out in 2005 with a built in browser, camera and had really good games. That thing is legendary.
I loved my PSP, and later Vita. I still think about Wake Up Club.
Yeah but I think he's talking about things that failed because it was ahead of it's time, the PSP didn't fail. It was popular and sold for about 10 yrs
PSP didn’t have a built in camera, it was an add on
Or the Garmin GPS. It had games, a browser, a good UI, and of course could navigate. The iPhone before the iPhone
Heard of Game Boy? You could attach a printer to that thing 😂
My team created the Motorola Atrix (software and laptop dock). Thank you for featuring us!
I used to have an atrix with the lapdock and loved it, thank you for the awesome job ahead of it's time!
Watching the Google Glass part now after Apple Vision Pro got revealed really confirms that this truly was a product that was ahead of its time. I am actually expecting Google to come up with a Google Glass revision or v2 now after everyone saw what Apple was cooking all along.
What it sounds like to me is that you wanted Apple to come out with a Google Glass clone so bad and then they came out with a completely different product😂. You probably had that comment already typed and saved on your Google pixel. Please go sit down somewhere!
@@Aggie4life77 We need another google glass clone, tbh. Seeing what companies expect us to wear in public (looking at you, meta), google glass honestly seems extremely tame and proper looking, as well as functional. On the other hand, maybe it's a good thing that we aren't advancing too quickly. I don't think we're ready for the tech dystopia... hopefully we will never be?
I still remember when you posted the original review for the google glass years ago (back in 2014?). Really cool to see how you’ve come since then
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I still have a pair of myvu media viewer in 2008 that the google glass are based on, worked very well, but people looked at me as a weird cyberpunk or time traveler…
Same 😅
@Mishan 🅥 I just checked out your content and it's trash ☺️
same lol
Marques Brownlee was ahead of its time. One man that reviews gadgets on a video format and became the single person to drive an industry tech creators unlike anybody on the platform has ever seen. Definitely worth a mention.
Seriously great video like almost all of his videos. Honestly one of the more underrated content creators despite his still wildly popular videos. In a sea of people making entertaining and clickbait content, he somehow makes impactful content that drives trends to advance how tech is involved in everyday life while still being entertaining for people who aren't nerds. Really appreciate this man and all of the work he's done and this video really drives home why I love his channel
He def cares about quality rather than quantity
🙏👏
I would say Linus was the first one to get the ball rolling for tech reviews but Marquees made it blow up in popularity!
Anyone remember the glasshole?
Really could make this a series, giving full in-depth documentaries about products ahead of their time and their influence
If you like the idea you should do it yourself
P-GA era Majority these Days.... *(**03:38**).* sounds like That kind of example, somewhere.
yeah there is a ton of stuff he didnt mention. also saw no comments about the palm pre. that thing was ahead of its time imo. wireless charging WAAAAAY before others. i remember as a kid i couldnt wrap my head around wireless charging i thought it was the most insane thing ever.
@@newp0rt yes and meanwhile, those Money-Takers: 'hrm.... *Not Enough.* [Throws out Years of scientific/etc researching and promises down into oblivion too instantly and Indifferently in exchange for something more of that same old 'Faster results']'. and so we are still back with the majority of wired-bound techs still....
I used Google Glass to record myself taking measurements. Normally, I have to hold a camera. or have another person hold the camera while I walk around throughout a building with a laser tape measure. With Glass, I had both hands free to just walk around and measure. One tap to pause, two to stop recording. The only issue I had was it would quickly overheat. No one ever gave me flak. Most people wanted to try it on.
Apple glasses sound crazy! Auto adjusting prescriptions OH MY.... but one question.... WILL IT WAFFLE?!!!!!
Only in the colour blue apparently!
Yes.
what do you mean, "waffle"?
Weel it waffle?
what
More context on the GM EV1. The car was actually really well received and people loved it, but GM created it to show how crap electric cars are. So when customers had a completely different reaction to what they expected, they bought all the cars back and destroyed them in fear that it would create a market shift towards EVs. Basically they didnt want to self sabotage their ice vehicles
That's shitty af
so they did a kodak
Interesting
Why would GM care? If the car was enjoyed by customers, it seems like it'd be silly not to make more.
@@soundchecked123 really they did something similar?
Google glass = look like a nerd Apple ski goggles = look like a geek
No look like a dork
Rhett and Link lol
Another way around
Idk google glass actually looks fine, not as ugly as apple vision
Who's here after Vision Pro launch?
jo me aswell
Yeah
I am.
me
Yup
For me the Sega Dreamcast was 'ahead of its time' for a console . Playing online Quake via a 56k modem with chat capability was incredible. It also had an internet Browser and the ability to attach a keyboard. And not to forget some of the peripherals they came out with was way ahead of its time.
Dreamcast was the best. So many memories on NFL2k1, NBA2k1, Phantasy Star Online, and Sega Swirl. I’ll never forget 9-9-99.
@@erineopenaloza8311 Oh man! NFL2K1 brings back so many good memories. Was also into Marvel vs Capcom!
Hey I liked the Dreamcast as much as anyone but it didn’t really do anything innovative or “ahead of its time” over its competition. The Super Famicom had everything mentioned (in Japan) before it.
So to break it to you but Sega saturn and the nes, snes had alot of these features and more and were truly ahead of there time that propelled the stereotype of the 80s and 90s of how far ahead Japanese tech was back then
I had a Panasonic 3DO that was def ahead of it's time. Major points if you know that console w/o looking it up.
My candidate for the "Ahead of its time" award is the Dell Streak. The first smartphone on the market with a 5" screen. I remember buying and using this phone and it was so ridiculously large compared to other phones that I was mocked mercilessly. Now look where we are! 5" is a small screen in today's world.
htc hd2 for me ,especially when u unlocked the bootloader and installed android froyo
To be fair, the screen may be not that big, but the device itself was pretty huge. Looked it up and it was bigger in every dimension than the iPhone 13 pro max so the mocking is justified lol
Samsung mega
Goes to show how many small minded and stupid people there are all there anything that is different or innovative is to be mocked
Hi i am from the future, just to inform you that once upon a time, the public were not accepting the google glass, now in 2024 people are crazy about Apple Vision Pro and using it in public weirdly.
we need to go back
It's already dying down
Hi I’m from the future future, and people are retuning Apple Vision Pros in mid 2024. The tech is better but the use cases are still not there.
I was an engineer for an app for google glass enterprise edition 2 last year, I quit though because I didn't approve of military robots. EE2 was terrible with the operating system it had throttling issues until they released an os patch that seemed to fix it. Enterprise Edition 2 wasn't good when I worked on it and there were no app stores etc. I was working on it to be able to have zoom meetings, and to give commands to Boston dynamics robots.
10 years since Google Glass!? can't believe its been that long
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I can. I completely forgot about it and for good reasons, as we just saw.
@Ankha Rule 34 L
@@hareeshkrishnaa5642 why do people say that?
I was also surprised that's it's been this long ago already. I still remember how excited I was when I watched the keynote.
Microsoft Kinect 2.0 was a great piece of tech that brought voice control and more to my home 5 years before Google Assistant. Also had a camera that would pan and zoom and follow on Skype calls. I loved it.
Man, Microsoft really shot itself in the foot with Kinect and Kinect 2. If they had just refined it more, gotten better games, kept the price down, been less creepy about privacy, and vetted that disastrous E3 reveal, they could have created a product that would go in nearly every family home. Instead, "the world's bears elling gadget" is collecting dust in second-hand bargain bins.
@@barrettdecutler8979 my family still has it. We got it back then. Its still alive and it helped with a bit of exercise too.
Kinect 2.0 is still the best value motion tracking camera you can buy, it was incredibly ahead of its time for $99 in 2013, if they just marketed towards AI and Robotics then sales would've skyrocketed. Even in 2022 a ton of people buy used Kinect cameras for robots just because of how damn good it is, the only other alternative costs $300 more.
It was a great piece of hardware. It's a shame Microsoft didn't think to create one good game for it to justify its existence.
Google glass and the sidekick 2 were one of my favorite devices of all time! Just so futuristic and fun to use.
The bit about photo-to-post work flow is so real. It'd be amazing if there was some wireless protocol where photos you snap on a DSLR automatically popular on your phone, maybe in an app (maybe bumming signal from your phone and pushing to the cloud as soon as you take them). Y'know how you can take a screenshot on your Mac and if your phone's awake, it just shows up? Maybe like that. Snap, mirror, edit, save/post. I'd be happy about it. Great segment btw. 🥂
You should def do more "off the beaten path/unusual/cool Tech devices" like this videos. It's fun to see what could have been and might still be influencing behind the doors current tech trends
@Telegram👉RealMarquesBrownlee shut up
Also online gaming . which was almost unknown on handhelds
Totally agree - I also like that he included the last one; it's like "Motorola Atrix walked so that ______?__ could run" dunno who'll run with it yet, but that's kinda the point
He used to have a lot of those in his earlier days
this was such a great throw back to all the tech that came out. I remember all of those that came out and even going into phone stores just to play with them.
Best Buy was always, use to be, a great experience for that, when you bought CDs or games but checked out the other tech. You could spend hrs. End there.
Who else is here after Vision Pro's release? 👀👀👀
Me 😂
Me
Psion 5mx was way ahead of it's time. Around 1998, I was typing papers, playing games, and with the modem attachment and my Motorola Startac cell phone, was sending emails from anywhere and could also surf the web. While it was large for a handheld, it was tiny as handheld laptop. Truly awesome setup many years before smartphones and long before ultraportable laptops.
I owned the Atrix 1 for about 3 years. I had the laptop dock, but it also came with a dock to plug into your car and worked like Android Auto before Android Auto. I would actually use it as a dash came with the car dock suction cupped to my windshield. To this day I still tell people it was my absolute favorite phone ever. I still have it + the docks just sitting in a drawer lol.
save them, one day they will cost a lot cuz they will become antiques :D
I had an Atrix in college but couldn't afford the dock. I remember going to an Engadget meetup in SF and getting to use a dock at the table Moto had set up, I remember that even back then it felt a little slow. The phone itself was fantastic though! So fast as just a phone. One of my favorite phones, right up there with the Nexus 5.
@@Matchstiix Didn't have the Atrix, but had the Nexus 5. Loved that phone. I had the Nexus 5X too, hated that phone. The phone I hated the most was the Motorola i1 tho.
I used the laptop dock in college all the time. Miss the atrix life
I know that KZhead Originals shut down. But this theme is a great concept for a new season of Retro Tech. In-depth review of a failed old tech that is way ahead of its time per episode. It's a dope concept and it just goes to show how tech improves over time to accommodate crazier ideas.
Yes
That's because KZhead Originals was ahead of its time.
@@leosanchez3701 totally
I agree! Make this a series!
@@leosanchez3701 ya, funny enough now that KZhead music is taking off along with KZhead premium and Netflix is dying it seems silly to remove potential added value to a KZhead sub, but I guess they have other ways of supporting channels now.
Legends are watching this after the launch of apple vision pro
I'm going to need a part 2 of this series. I know you and your team came up with 7 more ideas. This was great BTW.
Ahhh the pleasinga and satisfying number, no. 10
Audi A2 would ne nice
If they made a newer version of glasses, with current generation of camera, display and battery technologies, I would buy it instantly without even thinking.
Pervasive consumerism at it's finest
Apple’s working on one right now, we’ll probably see it in one or two years
Until the price is $1500
No, you wont.
@@SJ-eh4oj what is pervasive consumerism???
seeing this after the vision pro release 😮
Had to pause during the intro to say that I appreciate you bringing up the EV-1. To be honest, it made my stomach turn. It’s a primary example of a company making a product that’s good for the masses but bad for the bottom line. I invite anyone reading this to watch “Who killed the electric car”. I am also glad to see these tech enthusiasts embrace the past that lead us to this point. So often we forget all of the blood sweat and tears that goes into the world around us. People dedicated their lives over many moons just for us to have the ability to turn on light with the flip of a finger. Stay saucy my friends
I don't really think a car that has an effective range of 50 miles(2nd gen being less than 100) is "good for the masses" 😅 If you want to go way back to the early 1900s and complain about electric vehicles being pushed away for easier methods of travel across country, and remember, that was the point, people were traveling further distances, they wanted to be able to refill and go, but go ahead and make that debate, but don't make it on the EV-1 😂
@@johnnygeorgopoulos4072 he is correct you utter m*ron. Look it up before acting all high and mighty. Americans ☕️
@@johnnygeorgopoulos4072 most people drive less than 50 miles a day! If you had a charger at work I could totally seeing that being a normal range for a car.
I used to think as same as you, but think for a moment, Where the heck are they going to take the energy to power those cars? Not even today can we obtain clean energy for electric cars
Omg. I came looking for this comment. The documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car”
I remember watching a presentation where Microsoft showed off a dock for their windows phones that could run a full desktop experience. I was so sure that would become a thing by now...
It kind of is a thing... Samsung Dex is like that and people like it
Thank god people remember this. It's continuum for lumia. it even works without a dock with the connect app in windows 10. it was launched in flagship lumias the 950, 950xl later hp elite x3 and Alcatel Idol 4S.. I wonder why everyone is forgetting or ignoring windows phone. it lasted till 2015 and it's just 2022 how can they forget. As a WP fan i wanted everyone to know Wht microsoft tried to do.
I was getting hyped for it and my next phone was definitely going to be a Windows phone but then I never heard anything about Windows phones and last time I looked it up apparently Microsoft killed that off entirely :(
@@yashwanth3374 Windows phone just always sucked. Felt like microsoft were too full of themselves to see what they were doing wrong. I was a Nokia fan, so when the Lumias came out I really wanted to like them. But a friend of mine got one first and after testing it a while I decided that it’s definitely not up to par with Android or iOS.
@@jomerci2113 never sucked, ran so smoothly even on less power chips while Android would chug. The only thing that sucked was the lack of apps, and Google's war on it by not only not making apps for it but actively blocking third party KZhead apps etc.
This tumbnail is NICE and for good reasons.
One thing i thought was revolutionizing back in the day was Project Ara, that modular phone google was making. You could change the parts easily, to different types too. It was an upgradable phone. I believe that would be a huge step in the direction of fighting planned obsolescence and could be a win for the right to repair movement.
The concept pictures looked so cool as well. Broke my heart when I heard it was discontinued, really believed in that project
Hello from the future, we are getting normal looking smart glasses with micro led and we got apple vision pro
The Microsoft Zune was kinda ahead of its time too, it had a service where you can rent music and pay monthly, they also let you keep 3 song in the end of month if i remember correctly
I was just thinking that! You could keep 10 songs at the end of the month. The Zune player had access to your Zune subscription pass so you can download music with your Wi-Fi connection. You could also share music wirelessly with other Zune players and listen to the radio if you didn't want to listen to your music.
I had the pleasure of sitting down and having a conversation with a lead engineer for the GM EV1! Great guy, and had insane knowledge on the vehicle
I would like to know more as well!
Make a video on it !!
@@ajithadithya3889 That's a great idea! I've never uploaded anything to KZhead before, but if enough people are interested I'll give it a shot!!
Lmfao now that apple vision pro is out Google looks way better and less weird and dystopian
I have watched a lot of Marques content over the years but this is one of his best tech reviews videos. He articulates everything so well. Great content!
Thank for the review review “Malumbo”
One of the other things that I think "IS" ahead of its time, is Samsung DeX. It's really cool how you can wirelessly connect your own smartphone to a wireless-capable screen and turn it to a really decent computer just with the size of your hand. It's always with you and you don't need a separate mouse and keyboard 'cause you have it already as you can use your phone as a mouse pad and/or a keyboard.
In 2016 Windows 10 Mobile had this feature called Continuum that let you dock (wired or wirelessly) to a display/laptop and have a desktop environment powered by the phone. It was killed off by Microsoft, but from the beginning it had enormous potential. The hardware wasn't quite there yet though
Asus Padfone S can connect it's phone to a tablet shell. I also like the Microsoft Continuum idea (or just the general Microsoft software on a phone) that I bought Microsoft Lumia phone in 2016.
Although it wasn't on the list, he did mention it in the video while talking about the Motorola.
One other manufacturer to look at is Motorola with their 'Ready For' desktop environment. Each manufacturers 'Desktop' has pros and cons. For me, I sway to the Motos because they have a unique aspect of how to use it (look for reviews/how to vids), plus, Motorola don't stuff their phones with 'Bloatware' - multiple apps that try to do the same thing as many Google apps (that generally do it better in most cases) that Samsung 1- Deem it necessary to install them onto every device of theirs, with... 2- Forcing the 'Like it or lump it' approach by not allowing them to be fully uninstalled. Why not just have the 'Galaxy Store' app on their devices, and allow those that want a Galaxy equivalent app to then install what they want, rather than "Look, you buy our phones/tablets, you get our 'Meh' apps with it and you can't do nowt about it so shut up".... Don't get me wrong. Samsuing do great hardware, and my 'Perfect phone' would be something like the S22 Ultra running on Pixel (pure Android), or Nokia's Android One OS, or even Motos version of a basic Android (with their features like 'Karate chop' for torch, 'Double twist' of wrist for quick access to camera etc. And that camera hardware with the Gcam apk.... Hell yeah! Heck, starting on pure Android is a GREAT place to start customising your own phone your own way... 😏😎🇬🇧
Tried using Dex two years ago when my computer had emergency repair due to water spill, and it was excruciating to use it as multi-tasking and I gave up till I got my laptop back.
Great job Marques and thank you for the mention ;) Awesome video! I was very tempted to review that Samsung when it came out, because I also thought it was a game changing gadget as well, but as you said it was just ahead of it's time.... That Zeiss camera is also crazy awesome, but just not practical unfortunately. The Sony QX10 was another game changing camera lens system I thought, but Sony stopped supporting it before I got a chance to review it and like you said it was not the most reliable... Thanks again and all the best, Jay
Real power
You cool man
I haven't really heard anything new coming out like it, but I remember being blown away with the Motorola Moto Z. Back when modular was at it's peak. You could put a speaker, projector and some other things right on the back using magnets. Really wanted that phone
As someone who had this phone, the only worthy attachment was the battery pack because the battery life on the phone was awful. I had 4 different Moto Zs between 2017-2019 because of hardware issues and a very fragile screen. I ended up not getting another Motorola phone after that after only ever having them and loving the brand for years. I bought out of my contract early just to stop using that godforsaken phone lol
i remember I thought we are in future when google glass were announced. Of course I did not have money to buy it in 2013 but I was very excited. And very disappointed when they discontinued it. As I remember it was because people was afraid of being recorded implicetly without permission.
No one remembers the EV1... because GM made it damn sure everybody forgot. In the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" (2006) you can see people *BEGGING* to buy the cars they leased and GM refusing, taking the car back and crushing them. They donated completely gutted and disabled models to the Smithsonian and other institutions with agreements that indicated that the cars were not to be "titled, licensed, nor driven on public highways" and could only be restored and showcased. During the discontinuation movie director Francis Ford Coppola *hid* his EV1 from General Motors and was ultimately able to keep his EV1. One of the biggest corporate d*** moves in history.
The car made no financial sense and if GM had kept them on the road, they were obliged to provide spare parts and servicing, which would've cost them a lot. It's a simple case of limiting your losses. Good car but expensive to produce and develop and impossible to make money out of back then. They took an expensive bet at a fairly new tech and couldn't make it profitable at the time. End of story
Nope. GM auctioned the EV-1 patent to the oil companies, of which Chevron bought it, to purposely sit on it. Nice try shilling, though.
@@DimitarStanev GM was afraid of poaching their own ICE business. The market was there and would have scaled. Needed to be an outsider like Tesla who had no bad incentives like GM did.
@@elranzer do you have an actual source for that or are you just “shilling”? everything i’ve ever read about it ended up being over cost issues
@@DimitarStanev I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to you. Great opportunity!
Great video! The OnLive game streaming service is a perfect example of something ahead of it's time. It was almost awesome but internet speeds and the backend tech wasn't ready yet. Now xCloud, Stadia, and hopefully Playstation are about to make this a very real solution.
Dude you just brought back so many memories. Back when mobile gaming was something everyone wanted to do. My dad found Onlive and I used to use it so much
Nvidia GeForce now
OnLive was purchased by Sony and later became their PSNow service
I still have that tiny onlive tv device and controller in my garage :,) way ahead of it’s time!
OnLive didn't die mate it's owned by Sony now and incorporated into Playstation Live.
Really enjoyed this one. Keep up the good job!
he was talking about apple ar/vr. now its reality, thatsoverpriced
I would love to see a full frame camera with a smartphone OS and a full cellular data connection for live streaming. Put it on a gimbal, and you’ve got a much better solution than many IRL streaming setups with way less wires to manage.
feels like going more toward mobile phones cameras and post processing.
I’ve thought about this too often, it’s crazy that it hasn’t happened yet. But imagining pairing the iPhones post processing with the ability of a full frame interchangeable lens camera!
@@isaacrees4741 that would be incredible!
@@srt4b that is true, but smartphone sensors still can’t come close to full frame for low light video and dynamic range. Maybe someday.
@@ResortTV1 lol just kept watching the video and he says that same thing 😆
The Galaxy Camera 2 is what I used to start my KZhead channel. It did the job at the time. Crazy it has been around 10 years since all of this was out.
i am loving this nostelgic look back in relation to future product development from my fav youtubers. Mr whos the boss just did an amazing video on this same topic. i miss when phones where fun... does anyone remember pulse magizine by sony?????
bro you just refreshed many of the gadgets that i longed to use or was excited about
One of my favorites was the Pebble Smartwatch. They definitely helped make smartwatches become mainstream. Their stubbornness to not make a smart watch with phone capabilities, and companies like Apple and Samsung creating more powerful and feature rich smartwatches caused pebble to die out, but it definitely was ahead of its time.
I loved my pebble so much!
I loved my pebble back then. I had the first full metal one and even liked the industrial look of it. It didn't have a lot of features but it did what it could extremely well. Til this day I still prefer buttons over a tiny tiny touchscreen for smartwatches.
After my Pebble died, there is no other replacement that I could find that works just as great as the pebble.
@@bryanlim1373 The closest replacement to my old Pebble is the TicWatch (currently have the Pro3GPS). Battery life (compared to the Pebble) still sucks, but it is a capable watch. Waiting for WearOS 3 to be released for it.
Great example!
Wow! 10 years passed in a blink of an eye. 😕
Which, ironically, is an eternity in tech years!
Do we have scientists studying the passing of time? Cause I wouldnt be surprised if time dilation on Earth somehow started passing faster in recent years.... this is going way too fast.
@@asparrow9876 my thoughts exactly. I think time speeds up as you get older
Pretty unbelievable..
thanks to Covid, Three of those years is a blip
Many products end up being released at an inappropriate time because people were not expecting that technology, as it happened with Windows Phone, Google Glass, etc. In design, we have a concept called Maya = Most Advanced Yet Acceptable, which means that something is advanced in time, but still acceptable to the target audience, meaning the technology has to be familiar enough to be understandable and acceptable to the target audience. This means finding the balance between the new and the familiar, between the advanced and the comfortable.
Of course we remember Atrix ! It was a fascinating product. More than a decade ahead of its time, I'd say. The Asus Padfone came out a year later if I remember correctly. Also, very intriguing.
100% on the idea of using your phone as a “computer” - this is especially important in education where we are looking for ways to increase participation and access to digital learning resources. Pairing your phone with a keyboard, monitor, and mouse (KVM) is a way to get more students engaged. Combine this with the move towards cloud-based computation and the phone/dock combo becomes “glass to the cloud” I’m pretty passionate about this 😀
I'm with you on this one frank! I'm always in support of anything in relation to having an easier time and less barrier of entry when it comes to learning in general
I also think that technology got past the threshold where even a phone has enough raw power to just be good enough for general computing, which wasn't the case before.
Would love to see it. I remember proposing this kind of solution back in 2010 at my first job out of High School. My boss at the time thought I was crazy. Guess I should have gotten into product development and not IT.
Great idea!
MS tried this with Windows Continuum but since they discontinued Windows Mobile this project also died
This has the potential to become a series, like once a month, one of this! Really cool
Man the concept for vision pro looked so much better than vision pro does
Man..... The Apple Vision Pro took down the whole vr/ar competition. may not have much sales, but it seems like a powerful thing! but the price is just 😅🤧😕
Considering the changes happening in iOS right now, I would say Android OS was also ahead of its time in many ways. Lots of features killed off that were available way before they were streamlined.
It is, but the smoothness and straightforward iOS is unmatched compared to android
I think that Android phone makers and Samsung in particular throwing together features in 5 minutes and adding it onto their phone actually hurt the progression of phones due to those features working so awfully and people losing faith in them
@@Chapter7Certified Samsung updates are the worst.
@@Chapter7Certified this is the thing, it seems as if many andriod developers are coming up with ideas while drunk and put it in to their phones. a little while later apple will look for what they find the best features for their phones and like two years later they will have a decent product (with some stupid limitation lol).
Or iOS was just slow with its developments
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="435">7:15</a> that’s the new meme.
I live how you put in your old video. I saw that video along time ago. damn now i have to subscribe
Google Glasses is the only thing I still remember to this day that they were a thing. Kinda wish I was older to buy them back then.
I actually got one recently on eBay to play with and have as some sort of personal museum piece (yeah, it's just an expensive toy, but I save up to get them occasionally. Its like funko pops for people that aren't sad.) Even now with the "final" update installed they make for a fantastic user experience.
Just wow! It was an amazing to go to flash back and also a comparison with then and now. Thank you @MarquesBrownlee
Quick note on the camera phone: I don’t know if anyone remembers but Motorola made the Z droid 5-6 years ago which you could add things on its back like battery pack or full camera. It’s like MagSafe but better. It remind me of the project ara by google another excellent product which unfortunately never went on the market
Those prehistoric mkbhd videos really took me back. You've shaped the subconscious of so many nerds marques.
Totally agree about camera UI. I bought a Canon Rebel, but my best option is to use a USB adapter and hook it up to my phone so that I can edit and post photos. Given that I have pixel 6, I tend to use it more, but it takes away from the photographer aspect of holding a camera and focusing a lens.
True, there are so many products that were almost TOO ahead of their time. But they pioneered what we take for granted today !
↖️👀😰😵Guys, creepy exploring is here, come and take a look 😱😱😱...
I actually owned the Samsung Galaxy Camera in highschool! It was funny opening Snapchat and having the whole camera lens open up and come zooming out. Got teased a lot for it but it was awesome 😎 (If I came up with a list of technology ahead of it's time (specifically in the "mobile area") I would say the PSVITA!! The cameras, AR games, touchscreen and touchpad on the back, the display, gyro sensors, It was truly amazing! Imagine if they continued especially with the Mobile Video Game market now...😁)
In terms of video games, You Forgot about the Xbox Kinect!!
@@sammytammy3074true 👍, especially when people started connecting them to their computers and did VFX with them. I blew off the dust on mine and used it a few times when everyone was on ZOOM during the pandemic. The Wide angle and IR capabilities was pretty dope. But yeah, As a lot of people commented; There's a lot that's Ahead of it's time! Kinda depends on definition of "Ahead of it's Time" VS "Underrated" vs "Failed but Came back?" Idk, An actual list would be pretty big though🤷
@Steven Rios whoah! Your right! My bias of Playstation games was in the way😆 I forgot about Nintendo! Can't believe the Vita and 3DSXL came out in the same year, 2012! The 3D effect was dope and the NFC reader for the Amiibos were fun
PSVita paved the way for Switch and Steam Deck
@@devinsingleton5242 I also blew the dust off my Kinect as a test in 2020 and tried a Skype video call with someone and was amazed with the wide angle camera and also the focus on your face regardless of your movement around the room, (a little creepy there), but it was a way advanced camera that came out back in 2013.
It needs to come back with a bang
Pls pls plssss make this a series! This is so interesting
Man just imagine how far AR tech could have come by now if Glass didn’t crash and burn. Maybe even just ditch the camera??? Such an easy fix. Such a wasted opportunity.
People was not ready (nor is now) for something like this. They share the deepest personal things on FB, show they asses on IG, give a full personality profile on Tinder, post the resume on LI, but there's no way in hell you'll get to wear a recording device near them because it degrades privacy...
@@dexter2811 not until Apple releases their version
@@dexter2811 People were totally ready, the hype was great. Google Glass was simply trash.
@@marwin4348 You got yourself a like, this comment was funny to me with the way you worded it
The camera is required to see the environment for ar interactment.
I miss Google Glass. I had one and thought it was super cool despite the nerdy appearance. I know there were a lot of complaints about how it wasn't able to overlay over your entire field of vision like a video game HUD, but I think it was smart to not design it like that. Having it just be a little rectangle in the corner of your vision made it very clear where your attention was since you'd see the user staring at the Glass display instead of straight ahead.
Good point 👍👍
Mostly because privacy was a concern
Having to look in the corner was a feature not a bug. There was a concern that overlays over the user’s vision would obstruct their sight and cause accidents.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive who said it was a bug?
Should've been designed like scouter
While watching this video I was sitting here thinking ‘gosh it would be cool if Marques mentioned the Atrix - and then there it was! The multiple docks were very cool, and the idea that you would have the dock for your car, dock for your desk, and laptop dock was visionary. Something like this for CarPlay would be amazing
I find the Google Glass super interesting because one of my current professors basically invented it. It was an extension of his thesis at MIT in the 90s for a headmounted display. He would wear his original prototype all the time and use it to give him information relevant to the conversations he was having with people while wearing them. Today, he still leads the Glass project at Google, but it doesn't sound like they're making many new developments (as far as he is telling us). I know privacy was a big concern with them, but he takes privacy very seriously. He also cared a lot about making it a great experience for users. It really was ahead of its time, but I believe it will be a reality soon enough.
These professors love to pretend they’re bigger than they really are. 😂 I don’t believe it.
Glass was wonderful, I loved and still do. I wish it was more durable in rain and heat.
@@joshuatexas Look up Dr. Thad Starner. There are multiple articles online mentioning his involvement in the project. You can also look at his KZhead channel to see his research that lead to him working on Glass. It's really cool.
Even the transitions <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="82">1:22</a> are old mkbhd style if anyone remembers 2015 ish mkbhd! So well made
There’s a company, or was a company, called Webvan that was awesome. They were ahead of their time. They delivered groceries around 2000, 2001. Man. I loved that company. And they shut down after about a year. And now. There’s instant cart or groceries stores doing their own. Walmart did it the safe way and have pull up parking spots like target.
supermarkets need to listen: I would buy stuff more often instead of order it at amazon if I could just pull up at a parking spot and get it delivered to my car. even just groceries. everyone hates wasting their time in the store. even the employees too
There was also MyLackey, WebVan, and some other ones. WebVan was grocery delivery. MyLackey would run simple errands for you, like pick up the dry cleaning, do grocery shopping, etc. I visited Seattle in early 2001 and saw lots of faded internet company logos painted on empty warehouses for rent. It was surreal.
@awnx ruyv Seems like this guy was assassinated mid-sentence by GM hitmen
@@Doofens Walmart delivers groceries to your doorstep, I don't know if you have that where you are, but it's been in the US since covid (2020)...
There were several grocery delivery startups in the early 2000s. I remember Home Grocer and Peapod as well. Sad that it took Amazon, the pandemic, and gig workers for us to realize how useful it could be.
Interesting video. Google glass still being around surprised me, but for the applications- businesses , it makes sense
Just returned to complete the video after Apple Vision pro reveal, "Apple has a camera on your face"
For me the tech that was way ahead of its time was the Google's Project Ara, AKA modular phone. This would be incredible and very sustainable
I was constantly checking up on Phonebloks (the concept that started it all) because it was such a neat/new, consumer friendly-long lasting idea. Now Fairphone is basically the small scale version of that whole concept. Imagine not having to change ur phone every 2, 3/4 yrs- just order new parts and swap ur cpu, camera..whatever, out!
It was a great concept but companies won't invest in it because they want customer to buy new phones so they can make more profit instead of just buying a new attachment like camera, chip and other things...
@@deepakbisht4957 I believe that companies like xiaomi and such would very much invest in simple "addons" for this phone
Unfortunately so do the company way of thinking, a word “sustainable” is got to be first on the company side. Otherwise it’s impossible to produce.. I mean, come on, company always business oriented. IMHO 🙂
@@DarkDragonSlayer Not to mistake with Ara: History Untold
Awesome. I love these type of videos with such a nice theme. Something for software (apps) might be good as well. Great job 👍
I'll rather have the Google glass than the apple vision pro. I wear prescription glasses and i think having something like glass where it gives me directions, takes pics, video, etc etc it will be more useful in your life than the vision pro where it seems like it's only cool for entertainment. I also think that Samsung connected the Galaxy camera and the Atrix on their Galaxy line up.
i work for apple and the "whats a computer" thing is my favorite thing to ever come from this company and the bit you did with the moto phone laptop thing was pure gold
I barely remember details, but I definitely had a girl in my theater group around 2008-2009 who had a smart watch that she could use to read texts and answer calls, before smart watches were a thing. It was mindblowing to all of us. Edit: Looking at images, I think it might have been the Samsung S9110 Watch Phone. It looked a lot like that, though it's been ages so I could be misremembering.
Pebble were early players in that area. If it was a monochrome screen with silvery black pixels, it was probably a Pebble
@@jameswalker199 Pebbles was from 2013 I believe. Till today, I am still using the pebble Time (White). Sadly the band becomes dirty and start to break, glass starts become dull and battery life is shorten heavily (from 1 full week to 3 days max). But it is still usable
@@conget is it worth it to buy it now? Can I really read texts and message someone from my WhatsApp?
Highly doubt that smart watches were even a thing in 2008 as iPhone had only just released their first iPhone less than a year earlier
@@52BLUESony releases a smartwatch with Fossil that could connect to a smartphone and take texts and calls in 2007 so I don’t see why that’s so doubtful
I remember the GM EV1. I saw the rumored prototype which was decommissioned when I was training at Spring Hill Tennessee at the Saturn factory when I was a Saturn tech. It was so weird that they just passed the factory tour right by it, outside, wasting away around the back corner of the plant, not covered, just basically rotting away.
GM management did not want anything to do with electric cars unless their hands were absolutely forced. For a while there was a bill passed in California which said that by 2010 all cars sold by major manufacturers had to be electric and every one of them had to have an electric model out by 2000, so in the 90's there was this pressure to make EV's, and a lot of the manufacturers did. At the same time though, they lobbied the government to repeal the bill and I think either in 1999 or 2000 it was repealed, and to make sure the public forgot about the possibility of having this cool new tech that was just around the corner, GM recalled every single EV1 and destroyed them. I think Jay Leno and some museum are the only ones to have an intact one. The reason GM did this is because they want to keep costs down, and avoiding innovating above the bare minimum is a good way to do that, as unfortunate as that is.
I'd love a callback series for old/weird/cancelled tech that never got too far. I remember Microsoft made these really cool phones before the smartphone era really took over, called Microsoft Kin. They were always connected to mobile data and *had* to be connected to some kind of social media account to run. It wasn't quite a smartphone, but it wasn't a basic phone either. Remember when phones having the ability to play mp3 files was a huge deal??
Thanks a lot for the info!
This is my favorite video. I love the idea of all these and didn't even know of them expect for glass. Great job
Agree. Great video.
I still have my Google Glass…..man, they were good times. ❤️
People didn’t like it that you could film them without their consent in 2013. Nowadays we have street photographers and everybody making TikTok videos. So I guess in this time people are more open to it. It’s all about timing.
it really is. honestly ideas from today that failed will come back at a later time and it's gonna be nuts
Bro your the man your vids are always so well made
Great video! Very nostalgic. It gives a lot to think about how technology shapes the market and viceversa.
I really thought that Windows Phone was gonna be that one phone that could be connected to monitor, keyboard and anything else to replace your laptop/PC They had a software and with Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 managed to be basically the same and that would be a brilliant concept but was also ahead of time and a bit bad implementation.
really agree, im using nokia lumia back then.
Well, the hardware on the Lumia phones was great, but Windows 8 was too hobbled for serious productivity, and Windows Mobile lacked support from lots of apps and services that were already established on Android and iOS by then. In many ways, Windows Mobile was too late.
I had the same hope about Windows Phone as well. The problem with Windows Phone is their developer support is bad, they didn't give enough support or easy accessable information to App developer. So a lot of developer choose not to build on their platform, this is where they really miss the market. Hardware wise, Windows Phone was more smooth than Android
I have it
It was what I was looking for. Very easy to follow the steps. It works!
damn, the apple thing was real :0
MKBHD was ahead of its time being the very first KZheadr to review tech and make the viewing experience cool and fun.
But his channel was an actual success, which goes against the entire premise of the video.
LTT?
You were ahead of your time because now in the future I agree with you.
Oh man, I used to follow a lot of tech reviewers, popular and unpopular. MB is definitely one of the best, but the only one I've actually subscribed to or listened to recently.
I LOVE this video!!! So many cool gadgets ahead of their time.
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it"
man the thumbnails are just great, that temp is crazy!
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="593">9:53</a> and.... Slap the $10000 price tag ?