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When your customer information screen needs to call home, and keeps trying to find a dial-up connection to do so. At a car rental place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

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Giant screen showing trippy video goes wrong at Topshop, Oxford Street, London, W10 1LA

Street View shows how it’s meant to look here.

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Big thanks to @robertstats on Twitter for spotting this at Richmond station (London, UK).  Extra points for the failure code (BAD_POOL_HEADER).  These kinds of details help our engineers fix your public tech problems even faster!

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Signs at Newark airport failing to remote boot.  H/T Twitter user @zeynep.

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Please ask the server at the counter what’s for lunch at this Belgian motorway cafeteria, because Windows isn’t going to tell you.

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Even when all Windows has to do is cycle through five static images all day at the entrance to the automated passport gates at London Gatwick airport, it manages to mess that up.

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Kidzpace “Touch2Play” machine going badly wrong at McDonald’s in Squamish, British Columbia.

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A self-service supermarket checkout in a Co-Op somewhere in the UK taking a well-earned break from scanning customer purchases for a little light systems management activity.  Bonus point for the mis-spelling of “occurred”.  Thanks to Twitterer @dallascampbell.

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Just a collection of images of high-tech displays going wrong in public.  Blue screens of death on airport departure boards, ATMs that have booted into the Windows 98 desktop, billboards asking “OK/Cancel?”, that sort of thing.  Please submit original photos, if possible with some information about time, location, etc. Twitter: @PublicTechFail

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