Many gadgets marketed as being “smart” make me wonder if they would be better off dumb.

Some examples are smart TVs that insist on sending your activities to businesses to track you , smart fridges that use the Internet to cycle through ads , smart gym equipment that won’t work offline , smart toothbrushes whose batteries drain too quickly , or virtually any gadget that forces you to use a minimally effective or otherwise unimpressive app.

Too often, modern technologies, like inter-device connectivity and artificial intelligence, are shoehorned into gadgets that would be more intuitive to use, affordable, accessible, and/or durable without them.

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