Dead AI consumer products.

A free, crypto-incentivized playground for chatting with 800-plus AI models that paid users for their preference votes.

A Mac app that recorded and indexed everything on a user's screen and microphone so they could search their past with natural language.

A personalized AI companion app pitched as an assistant that grows with you and keeps a living diary.

SoftBank's four-foot humanoid robot with an emotion-reading face and a chest tablet, sold for retail greeting and home companionship.

An AI presentation tool that let users generate full decks from a prompt and grew to millions of users at its peak.

A screenless wearable AI assistant that clipped to your shirt.

A $2,295 mixed-reality headset that used computer-vision AI to anchor virtual objects in physical rooms.

An $800 cloud-connected social robot designed to teach social and emotional skills to children.

A free consumer chat app that gave users access to GPT-4, Claude, and persona-based AI characters in one interface.

Instagram founders' AI-driven news reader that ranked, summarized, and de-clickbaited the feed.

A Microsoft Research app that used 3D spatial audio to call out streets, shops, and intersections to blind and low-vision users as they walked.

An ad-free, subscription-based AI search engine pitched as a privacy-respecting Google alternative.

Meta's line of smart video-calling displays whose Smart Camera used computer vision to pan, zoom, and keep callers in frame automatically.

A $300 video-calling device for children that projected interactive games and puzzles onto a table.

Wired Bluetooth earbuds with a Google Assistant trigger and a real-time translation feature pitched as a Babel-fish moment for AI.

Microsoft's English-language successor to the Tay chatbot, designed for casual conversation on messaging platforms.

A consumer robotics company behind the Cozmo and Vector AI companion robots and the Anki Drive racing system, marketed as real robotics in toy form.

A cabinet-sized robot from Japan's Seven Dreamers that used cameras and AI to fold laundry, priced around $16,000 and never shipped a unit.

A French home robot that drove from room to room projecting movies and music while doubling as a security and smart-home hub.

A messaging app built around Smart Reply suggestions and the first consumer outing of Google Assistant.

The self-described first social robot for the home, a swiveling tabletop companion that recognized faces, held conversations, and told stories.

A smart home security camera with 3D sensing and computer vision that could recognize specific family members, pets, and strangers and respond to natural language queries.

A $700 wheeled home robot with expressive eyes and a built-in camera, made by a Bosch-backed startup to roam the house and film candid moments.

An Android launcher that rearranged your home screen by time of day, location, and what you were doing.

Microsoft's Twitter chatbot designed to mimic an American teenage girl and learn through conversation with users.