This just shows you how much crappy stuff they invent... Also, I'd never seen about 80% of all that crap in my life. So it also shows that most stuff doesn't even make it to Europe (probably because it's so crappy). :-)
I've seen the N-Gage and it was a piece of crap indeed. Those segway things seem like the most retarded things... Wasn't it used by cops or something? And how to you keep your balance on that thing?
And I don't think Aibo was a flop. I actually played with an Aibo, and loved it. It was just expensive. I'm even sad that they don't make them anymore, because it was something I wanted to buy later in my life.
Finally, the standalone DVD recorder actually sells pretty well over here in Europe. We don't really use the dvd writing function of it anymore. We mainly use it to put your own movies on the harddrive, so you don't have to write a dvd for every movie you have.