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The Microsoft Zune and 6 other not-so-dearly-departed gadgets

After years of dreadful sales, the failed iPod competitor joins other doomed tech toys in the digital junkyard

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Last week, Microsoft announced it would be no longer be producing its Zune mp3 player. While rumors are already circulating that the failed iPod competitor might be resurrected, most greeted the announcement philosophically, with the collective sigh that typically accompanies the passing of a gadget that never really caught on. Here, six other tech toys no one really misses:

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