Tech gadgets we once loved but since abandoned (Photos)

Talk about a high-profile casualty of the digital age. Come July, Kodak, the company that invented the hand-held camera, will stop making its digital camera. Yes, it's the end of an era but the news is hardly a shocker. What with Kodak's inability to fend of stepped-up competition from rivals with better digital cameras - not to mention the emergence of smartphones doubling as cameras - this was a slow-motion rendezvous with failure. Then last month the company filed for bankruptcy protection.