Google has showed a lot of stuff at its big conference each year - here are the hits and flops
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Probably not, since the baffling device never shipped after its unveiling at the company's 2012 developers' conference.
And Q isn't Google's only IO flop over the years.
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Now that this years' show has wound down, the folks at Vennage took stock of some of Google's highest highs and lowest lows.
It isn't an exhaustive list - for example, there's no mention of Project Ara, the mix-n-match phone concept first revealed in 2013 or some of the other wacky side projects Google has announced - but it's still a fun little reminder that not all the hype ends up paying off, while some products really do make history.
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