A lot of gadgets are packed with feature of speech through necessary . But are household gadgets — like toasters , kettles and wash machines — getting needlessly complex for no good reason ?
Washing machines have more setting than I can ever begin to realise . Toasters have context for bakehouse items I ’ve never heard of . And kettledrum even put up up different ways to boil piddle . Sometimes , it feels like domesticated gadgets are put in our homes to confuse us .
But do we really require these advances , or are they just appearing in product because they can appear in products ? If nobody really uses them anyway , is there any full point ? Or do you actually use those unknown cycles on your laundry machine daily ? [ Guardian ]

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