Also, thanks to global-positioning gadgetry, one of the family tractors can drive itself, which is "pretty cool .Rivals in other lands have sniffy theories about why America, a rich country, is so good at producing cheap food.
New kinds of electronic gadgetry for communicating between offices are buzzing on to the market every day.
The nursery battle between high-tech gadgetry and simpler playthings still rages.
The gadgetry is embedded inside the protective gear wrapped around the player's torso.
Japan's makers of television sets, compact-disc players, game machines and other bits of entertainment gadgetry found around the home have long worried about America's restless personal-computer (PC) industry barging its way from the office into the living room.
The gadgetry may be what gave the game away.
A couple of years ago, such smooth gadgetry would have seemed a fitting symbol of the power of Wall Street.
Such gadgetry also increasingly makes decisions on the driver's behalf and overrules him in an emergency, for instance, braking to avoid a crash.Other technologies are beginning to make this easier.
Hitherto, trends in consumer gadgetry have typically taken off in America first, followed by the rest of the rich world, and then in emerging markets like China.
Consumers who have quickly got used to shopping on mobile devices also seem likely to be enthusiastic adopters of smart watches and other wearable devices.The Chinese people are turning out to have a greater affinity for gadgetry than even the Japanese; and Chinese companies are innovating furiously, producing all manner of devices, one of which may, perhaps, turn out to be the next Sony Walkman.
Such wishful thinking is perhaps symptomatic of our infatuation with technology and gadgetry, and the belief that we can compute our way out of every problem.
