Look ma, no cords!

When I got home last night, sitting on a kitchen counter was a new appliance, a SodaStream – no more lugging bottles of seltzer; now we can make our own!

Because the few electrical outlets on that counter were, I thought, already in use, I asked my wife where she had plugged it in. "I didn't," she said, "because it doesn't."

Wow. No digital display; no menu; no microprocessor; no electricity!

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