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What are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations?

A Sony Betamax video cassette tape — The one that got away? A Sony Betamax cassette tape. Photograph: Mehmet Gökhan Bayhan/Getty Images/iStockphoto

What are the best defunct products and overlooked innovations? Brian Phipps, Sheffield

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