"Electric Can Openers: The Princess Phone of Tomorrow"
Nashville Scene, food blog (March 9, 2010)
"It's obvious that vinyl records and phone booths top the list of once-important cultural items that will be cocktail conversation for the next generation. 'Oh, my grandparents had a dial phone!' or 'I have a photo of my great-uncle that was taken with a Polaroid.'
"In trying to go deeper, I've started a list that includes saccharin tablets, tonsilectomies, dried parsley and tractor feed printers.
"And electric can openers. It was only 10 years ago that a friend was dumbfounded by the lack of electric can opener on my kitchen counter, and admittedly, I was a little embarrassed...."
I know what a Princess telephone is: but I remember when they were the latest thing in consumer electronics. That's a photo of a pair of them, from Wikipedia.
It's a short post - and a pretty good look at how the new, hot, gotta-have technology is forgotten not long after - or becomes a collector's item.
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