Paul's Product Proposal

Last year, a lot of cool gadgets hit the market. In Ephesians, we find another one.

If you've been on a plane any time in the last 25 years, you probably took a moment to leaf through the SkyMall catalog. You remember: This is the kitschy magazine that's full of innovative and weird products you don't really need.

A Yeti garden sculpture?

How about a sleep mask that plugs into your iPod or a pen that takes pictures?

Leafing through that catalog on a long flight, you might have thought you really did need that replica Harry Potter wand or that voice-recognition grocery list organizer.

But, alas, SkyMall filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Seems that now, in a world where gadgets are multiplying at a high rate of speed, people aren't waiting until they fly to grandma's to do their shopping for battery-operated ephemera.

Gadgetry is now no longer novel. In fact, it's totally passé, except for a few of the top gadgets of 2014.

The best new gadgets of 2014 seem to feature wearable tech (this is a key idea for where we're going with this Ephesians text).

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