{"id":10281,"date":"2023-06-04T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T11:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/04\/readers-reply-what-are-the-best-defunct-products-and-overlooked-innovations\/"},"modified":"2023-06-04T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T11:37:14","slug":"readers-reply-what-are-the-best-defunct-products-and-overlooked-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/04\/readers-reply-what-are-the-best-defunct-products-and-overlooked-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers reply: what are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<\/p>\n<p>What are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations? <em>Brian Phipps, Sheffield<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Send new questions to <\/em><strong><a href=\"mailto:nq@theguardian.com\">nq@theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jun\/04\/readers-reply-what-are-the-best-defunct-products-and-overlooked-innovations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/49034df292b79608f47561909d20e45831935cdc\/92_0_2368_1421\/master\/2368.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1b101acaed9d3bc123dff815cdfe7f83\" title=\"Readers reply: what are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations?\" \/>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<br \/>\nWhat are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations? Brian Phipps, Sheffield<br \/>\nSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts What are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations? Brian Phipps, Sheffield Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading&#8230; The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/04\/readers-reply-what-are-the-best-defunct-products-and-overlooked-innovations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Readers reply: what are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}