Keeping it simple: Uncomplicated tech, and why it's always worth your money

The key to determining whether some new piece of technology, whether it's a gadget, app or website, will work for you - and better yet, stand the test of time - is how uncomplicated it is

My daughter Liz loves gadgets. She even recently reviewed one: the WobbleWorks 3Doodler Create+, a device that’s part pen, part 3-D printer. What struck me most is because it’s designed as a toy, it slips past our notice as a “gadget.” Yet it most certainly is, letting you create objects in the same manner (and using many of the same materials) as a regular, complicated 3-D printer.

As my daughter said, it’s “3-D printing in real time.” But the pen is fun to use and a great example of “uncomplicated” tech. There’s no byzantine software to learn. In fact, you don’t