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2018 was an interesting year for tech, to say the least, between anxiety-inducing social

media network breaches and new forensic DNA databases to buggy mobile devices and killer

driverless cars.

It'd be easy to say we've seen it all, but now we haven't entered into 2019. I have to wonder what tech devices might be joining us this year.

Which ones won't see the light of day?

Well, that we've got you covered.

Mike James for Kim Commando.

On today's Commando on today's Commando on-demand episode, we journey through

ghosts of the tech industry's past, exploring everything from Google goggles to Wi-Fi-enabled

wine bottles.

2018 was one of many twists and turns for Google, which actually made it into the tech

product memoriam twice. It's right, in today's podcast, there's not one, but two Google products that won't be joining us in 2019.

Aww.

I know, very sad.

The first of those is Google goggles.

This image recognition mobile app was developed and released in 2009 in Google's attempt to make

the visual world more easily searchable. Google goggles. Did you ever try those? No. Google

goggles were in fact a way to interpret what was going on in your surroundings. Someone with the app could

hold their phone up to something they wanted to know more about,

take a picture, and read all about it.

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