8 very public technology fails

Showing off your brand new product to eager jounrnalists and members of the public can be a great way to create buzz – unless the product or people demonstrating it are a bit broken.

1. Volvo demonstrate their new braking system.

2. Transformers director Michael Bay shows off a new Samsung TV.

3. Witness ‘the unbreakable phone’.

4. This man has entirely too much coffee at a Ubisoft conference.

5. Steve Jobs has iPhone trouble.

6. A shiny new Microsoft Surface tablet freezes.

7. Honda’s Asimo robot appears to have had a heavy night on the cyber-booze.

8. Things weren’t better in the old days either – here’s Windows 98 dying live on stage.