Have you bought a piece of technology that was then a dud?

Companies are always bringing out new technology or updating old products and making them better and it seems to me that it is difficult keeping up with new advances all the time. There is of course that idea that if you buy a brand new computer it is already out of date within a week, but that is not what this is all about.

We are all told how amazing this new product is and why we should all rush out and buy it straight away at this super high price as it is all new and shiny and quite often we do. I did this years ago with a small portable handheld television that I then only used twice as I would have got a better picture if I had hand drawn each screen myself.

So what piece of technology or item have you bought and then looked at it years later and thought, why did I do that??? Did you gamble on Betamax video machines only to find out that VHS was King?