Gadgets - our houses are filled with them: ones we need, ones we think we need, and others that were a good idea at the time, but have never made it out of their boxes.
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We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters.
For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.
I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.
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