Setting up a modern entertainment system is, put kindly, a miserable task. Put less kindly there might be a few words thrown in that aren’t fit for print. Fragile and expensive flat screen televisions need to be bolted to wall mounts and then connected to a half dozen devices, each...

There are very few remnants in our modern, technologically advanced daily lives of our pre-plugged in world of a few hundred years ago. Cooking is revolutionized by microwaves and refrigerators; commuting is revolutionized by automobiles and aeroplanes; communication has been revolutionized by smart phones and the internet; even exercise has...