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On gadgets: the glory days and the new wave

is an audio and video creator at The Verge since 2015.

With the introduction of The Verge’s new gadget blog Circuit Breaker and the release of Apple’s Q2 earnings report, Walt and Nilay discuss the importance of gadgets in the tech world today, the separation of smartphones from the gadget world, and also look back at the golden age of gadgets in the 1990s.

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