Digital Trends

When tech and fashion collide, it’s not always pretty. In fact, sometimes, it’s downright ugly – and forget about actually trying to use it. From crystal-studded USB theft magnets, to phones that look like mutated children’s toys, we rounded up our top 20 techno train wrecks from companies that failed to make fashion function. This week, we scratch the surface with retro gone wrong, good ideas that turned out badly, and a certain iconic cell phone that never quite cut it. Click here to read Part 2.

20. JBL On Time iPod Dock

When you’ve got every company in the consumer audio market pumping out ten different varieties of an item like an iPod dock, you’re bound to get some idiotic models that are different for the sake of being different. That seems to be the case with the JBL on Time alarm clock, which looks a bit like an MRI machine for your iPod. We’ll give this one credit for actually working, but unless you live aboard the space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey, we’re guessing this one will be the ( Read our JBL On Time review)