Navy Holodisc

The Navy Holodisc, often simply referred to as the Holodisc, is a home video game console developed by NavyTech. It was the result of an abandoned collaboration with Hamilton Beach, a company known for making kitchen appliances such as blenders and rice cookers. The Holodisc was released on November 30, 1998, to highly negative critical and emotional reception. As a result, it was also a massive commercial failure, commanding very few sales at its astronomical price point of $699.99. The console's highly commercialized and generously marketed gimmick was its ability to utilize hologram projectors to cast a three-dimensional full-color image in a real environment, allowing for a sort of gameplay. 
The console does not have a proper first-party dedicated controller. Instead, all the buttons are on top of the console itself, which is expected to be placed on top of an elevated surface or a table during use. It features a strange set of triangular buttons on the left, serving as a replacement for the classic d-pad featured on most controllers. Instead of triggers, there are two buttons to the side of the d-pad. The start and select buttons are placed on the middle of the top of the console. A built-in mouse-pad with an attached mouse is found on the right, used both to control the camera in 3D games and navigating menus.
==History==
The Holodisc was announced on May 20 of 1998 at a video game showcase in Delaware in an effort to attract the attention of investors. The prototype, then called the "Dream Holocaster," promised many additional features not present in the final product, including a built-in modem for internet support, a web browser, cable access, an application for booking flights to and from the country of Paraguay, telephone communications, and more. Fifty of these prototypes were present at the showcase for public testing and thousands had already been manufactured for the originally projected August 4th release date. The company reportedly invested two million dollars into this showcase, far exceeding the budget that they initially had to work with, with the expectation that development would then be carried by funds from potential investors. The showcase was immediately followed by the beginning of a long and expensive ad campaign promoting the Dream Holocaster with the slogan "It's Blinking." One day after the Delaware showcase, the Sega Dreamcast would be announced in Tokyo, forcing NavyTech to halt production of the Dream Holocaster, recall the ad campaign and change the name of their product.