Banned by museums within eighteen months.
An extendable pole for your phone, briefly ubiquitous, then an object of universal embarrassment.
It went from novelty to mainstream to banned in about two years. Galleries, festivals and football grounds all prohibited them.
Front-facing cameras got wide-angle lenses and the whole category simply evaporated.
Cost back then
£9.99
Goes for now
In a drawer, in every house
Keep going
Consecutive days of messaging tracked with a flame emoji, which turned casual chat into an obligation.
Britain completed digital switchover in October 2012, ending analogue transmission and taking teletext with it.
A specific look (full beard, top knot, rolled chinos) that spread from Shoreditch to every town in about two years.
The sixth-generation Nano dropped the click wheel for a touchscreen the size of a postage stamp, and people wore it as a watch.