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HOME SWEET HOME 'Smart' spins on common home appliances can be useful, but there
are often downsides to making every device in your home, on some level, a
computer. Dave Urban
Gear & Gadgets


STRESSED BY SMART TECH? CONSIDER THESE ‘DUMB’ DEVICES


AS OUR APPLIANCES AND GADGETS BECOME MORE CONNECTED, THEY BECOME MORE PRONE TO
UNEXPECTED BUGS AND GLITCHES. A GUIDE TO SANITY-SAVING ALTERNATIVES.

HOME SWEET HOME 'Smart' spins on common home appliances can be useful, but there
are often downsides to making every device in your home, on some level, a
computer. Dave Urban
By
Justin Pot
April 15, 2022 12:30 pm ET

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ONCE, a broken bathroom scale just displayed the wrong weight. In 2022, it won’t
even do that.

“My scale stopped connecting to Wi-Fi, which for some reason means it won’t even
show the weight,” said Chris Hoffman, editor in chief of How-to Geek, an online
magazine devoted to helping people understand their tech. In short, he’s an
expert at troubleshooting broken gadgets. But when Mr. Hoffman’s scale went on
the fritz, it just sat stubbornly broken on his coffee table, even after he’d
read the entire manual, researched whether others had experienced the same
problem, hounded customer support and coaxed the device through a complete
factory reset. “I was left thinking ‘Where did I go wrong with my life?’” he
said.

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