Investigators have long known that the device failed.
EnteroMedics said on Friday that its implantable weight-loss device failed in a study.
Unfortunately, that is not a given: a Microsoft device failed F.C.C. engineering tests earlier this year.
Despite heavy marketing before Christmas, 3Com said, Audrey and Kerbango, an Internet radio device, failed to catch on.
The problem isn't that this device failed to help me decide who was "lying" (so what, neither did Rashomon).
A clinical trial of the device failed to show that it worked any better than routine surgery.
He chose to detonate a bomb on the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight but the device failed and badly burned him.
And shortly after Medtronic spent $260 million in 2005 to acquire Transneuronix, a start-up company with an anti-obesity implant, the device failed its first clinical trial.
However the device failed to go off properly, resulting in serious burns injuries to Abdulmutallab's groin and legs but no explosion.
But neither was Richard Reid, the infamous "Shoe Bomber" of 2001, whose boot-held device failed to detonate due to foot perspiration.
But the company's aim to make money by selling small ads on the device failed to impress investors who did not provide Modo with additional rounds of financing.
