Buyer’s remorse

Another interesting article about gadgets in yesterday ’s New York Times , this one about hoi polloi who buy lots of unexampled gizmo and then never terminate up using them :

hoi polloi acquire these things — hired hand - carry personal digital help , flatbed scanners , compact disc copiers and a emcee of other object — because they promise to make life more efficient , more fun , or , some confess , but because they come out to serve them keep up with what their “ wired ” friends and neighbour have . But many such products are simply too complicated for their own commodity . And all too often , the emptor find out that they can not really switch their lives just by acquiring something new and different .

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