Sometimes a technology idea is too good to be true. A flexible keyboard, Internet voting and watching feature films on your smart phone are examples. Today, these concepts are still evolving, but they’re broken right now. Here are 10 high-tech ideas that sound good but don’t work out so well in practice

BitTorrent is often maligned, but overlooking it might be foolish. INHOLLAND University’s IT department found that it can speed patching and image updates so much, that rollouts that once took four days now only take four hours.

BTGuard is an easy to use proxy service that adds an extra layer of privacy to your BitTorrent transfers. The service is designed for BitTorrent users who don’t want their ISPs or any third party to log or throttle their IPs or traffic. BTGuard reroutes all your BitTorrent traffic through their servers in Canada. This means that anyone who connects to you via BitTorrent, even the MPAA or RIAA, will see BTGuard’s IP, and not yours.

When Fox and NBC Universal announced last March that they would join forces to put their TV shows online, the pundits of Silicon Valley howled with derision. Old media doesn’t get the Internet, they said. Michael Arrington, the influential editor of TechCrunch, rattled off the reasons the project would never succeed and suggested that Fox and NBC quickly name their joint venture before it got stuck with the moniker insiders at Google had reportedly given it: Clown Co.

The Register on their article quoted that Microsoft is in no hurry to integrate the technology and culture of Yahoo! should the aggressive takeover go ahead. This remark is obvious because the technologies and cultures of MSFT and YHOO are very different. Yahoo! is a mixed bag of technology with a large proportion of its systems running open source while Micro$oft have their own propitiatory system.