I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets t…

Susan Orlean
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I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway. ✨ In Beta by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 10, 2010.
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