We all love them. This would have led him to see the technological light and throw his manifesto into his RoboBlender 4000, changing the course of history forever.
Machines exist to make things happen quicker and more efficiently.
Inventions let us automatically do things we could never do before. And gadgets, well, they serve no real purpose other than to make money for the company putting them out while using up precious drawer space and disappearing that one time in our life when we could actually use them. There are two schools of thought when it comes to creating new inventions. First, there's the kitchen-gadget school, which says you need a separate utensil to perform each task, no matter how small, mundane, or easily it can be done using an existing tool. NCR Corp., a company that started out making cash registers and now prefers to just hear them ring, recently showed a prototype appliance in London called the Microwave Bank.