What item did you want but never came to the market?

BowdonUK · 25 Mar 2020 at 11:09

I'll start off the thread by saying a multi-disc dvd/blu-ray player.

I think there has been ones made, though I've only ever seen it with music cd's on a hifi player.

I've always wondered why there was never a premium product on the market with dvd/blu-ray players, especially with so many boxsets containing multiple discs these days.

If I binge watch a tv show boxset they usually only have 6 episodes per disc, so I have to keep getting up and changing the disc.

As anyone else wanted a device that was either never invented or never came on the market available for you to buy? Or if it did was it too expensive?

miguelking · 25 Mar 2020 at 11:45

Certain there was dvd ones made.

Ogoshi · 25 Mar 2020 at 13:03

Not so much an item, but a game called The Getaway was supposed to get a second iteration on PS3, it kept getting delayed and was eventually shelved. Looked forward to that for a long time!

Armageus · 25 Mar 2020 at 13:12

BowdonUK said:
I'll start off the thread by saying a multi-disc dvd/blu-ray player

Sony DVPCX995V
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/sony-dvp-cx995v-review/

azazl187 · 25 Mar 2020 at 13:17

I have the nvidia shield portable and it's great. I was always hoping for a second one that had better specs and a larger screen with ironed out bugs.

It would have been awesome but never happened

englishpremier · 25 Mar 2020 at 13:22

One handed non-electic pepper grinder, with a squeezable trigger for dispensing the pepper.

TrannyBill · 25 Mar 2020 at 14:25

englishpremier said:
One handed non-electic pepper grinder, with a squeezable trigger for dispensing the pepper.

There's multiple on the market with one handed squeezing operations. In fact I used to have one that had a trigger rather than levers, probably still about.

thegreysquirrel · 25 Mar 2020 at 14:27

englishpremier said:
One handed non-electic pepper grinder, with a squeezable trigger for dispensing the pepper.

Found a salt version: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Housewares-Squeeze-Salt-Grinder/dp/B004P3A44K but alas it is impossible to find one for pepper. Keep dreaming.

Ugley_Matt · 25 Mar 2020 at 14:48

Hoverboard.

something daft already!! · 25 Mar 2020 at 14:58

Ugley_Matt said:
Hoverboard.

this

Rickyw88 · 25 Mar 2020 at 15:02

Google glass seemed like a good idea at the time, minus the questionable camera mind

wolfie138 · 25 Mar 2020 at 15:09

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar

thezappa · 25 Mar 2020 at 15:14

Definitely a hoverboard.
Also a time machine.
Or the thing from the Matrix where you plug something in to your head and you put a minidisc in to the player and you know that thing (that was on the disc).
Orrr, the drug from Limitless which enabled you to unlock the full potential of your brain.

Dup · 25 Mar 2020 at 15:22

thegreysquirrel said:
Found a salt version: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Housewares-Squeeze-Salt-Grinder/dp/B004P3A44K but alas it is impossible to find one for pepper. Keep dreaming.

Click the black coloured model...

Yaayuh! · 25 Mar 2020 at 15:29

thegreysquirrel said:
Found a salt version: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Housewares-Squeeze-Salt-Grinder/dp/B004P3A44K but alas it is impossible to find one for pepper. Keep dreaming.

Dup said:
Click the black coloured model...

englishpremier · 25 Mar 2020 at 17:05

thegreysquirrel said:
Found a salt version: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Premier-Housewares-Squeeze-Salt-Grinder/dp/B004P3A44K but alas it is impossible to find one for pepper. Keep dreaming.

Looks like a speculum. I can imagine female dinner guests cringing in terror when I pull that out.

I'm looking for something that is a more conventional barrel/cylinder shape. Hold the cylinder and squeeze a small but solid trigger. The tigger would be like some of those on windup torches.

mmj_uk · 25 Mar 2020 at 17:15

A realistic sex robot.

Destination · 25 Mar 2020 at 17:47

mmj_uk said:
A realistic sex robot.

The Gemma Chan model from Humans. Specifically that one.

Rickyw88 · 25 Mar 2020 at 17:58

One can only dream

SexyGreyFox · 25 Mar 2020 at 18:03

Back in 1985 I put down a £500 deposit for a new recording studio multi-tracker called the Cutec Octette.
It was an eight track recorder that used a Betamax video recorder and video tapes (good idea although it was Betamax).
It was 1987 when I got a letter saying it wasn't possible to build and they sent my money back plus interest I'd lost.
I went out and bought an 8 track Fostex A8 reel to reel instead.
I've found this one article from 1985 where it mentions it - http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/whats-new/6346