Holiday Gift Guide

5 cutting-edge tech failures that you can buy today

Yesteryear's overpriced bleeding-edge tech, now actually affordable.

New technology is the best. It's an early look into the far-flung future. But cutting-edge tech is almost always expensive. Some of them are colossal commercial failures because nobody except the 1 percent can afford it. This year, instead of gifting someone a new PS5 or iPhone 12 Pro Max, get them the gift of yesteryear's bleeding-edge tech. Once overpriced, now a fraction of the cost.

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Sony XEL-1 OLED TV

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