No, not really.<p>(I mean, I don&#x27;t want to come off as a Luddite by any means, but...)<p>I&#x27;m 40, so perhaps things have changed a bit more than those younger than me, but I can still make most food from scratch ingredients, have no issues sleeping outside in the cold, and can iron and mend my own clothes. I don&#x27;t really see that much of a difference between myself and a person 100 or 1000 years ago, spare electricity, and I certainly don&#x27;t need that in any real meaningful way.<p>Perhaps it&#x27;s a generational gap, perhaps it&#x27;s my jaded old fart genes kicking in, but I look at this list and I see, for lack of a more fitting phase - a lot of useless shit.<p>I mean, who the heck justifies a smartphone controlled grill? Who&#x27;s next purchase priority is a $250 blanket that you program with your smartphone to keep different areas of the bed warm? Is there really a demand for a gadget that helps with your mindfulness and tells you to calm down? Isn&#x27;t that what a good friend is for? Granted, there are certainly a lot of items that do seem to have useful needs - and I love that many of them seem geared towards sustainability and such, but my god I don&#x27;t think every single article on the planet needs to be &quot;smart&quot;.<p>Then again, I&#x27;m a person that still doesn&#x27;t see the use case behind the smart watch (that&#x27;s dependent on the phone in your pocket, at least), so maybe I&#x27;m just completely out of touch. At any rate...don&#x27;t read too much into my comment, I&#x27;m not as trite as I probably sound. Just getting a little put off by the trend that seems to be focused on using technology to power hyper-narcissism (&quot;Your own shampoo flavour!&quot;) in the name of positive technological advances. :-&#x2F;