What kind of person carries a travel gadget-bag with so much in it that he misplaces two gadgets, and doesn’t even notice he has misplaced them? So that’s how this question popped up in my mind. Fortunately, the rainy season hasn’t begun in India but I still had to make a 45-minute drive the next evening to retrieve my stuff.ĭriving is thinking the time for me as my brain is relatively free of the distraction of my usual multitasking. I recalled leaving it outdoors in order to pick up the faint cellular signal in the hills.
IBACKUPBOT TAKING FOREVER PORTABLE
On reaching home, I found my travel gadget-bag was missing two gadgets: a power bank and the portable hotspot to which I had connected it. Last weekend, I was staying over at a friend’s farm in the hills when something came up, and I had to rush back. So what led to my enlightenment? How many gadgets is too many gadgets? In short, every other day, I’m contributing to the world’s mounting e-waste problem. This morning, it was four rechargeable AA batteries that had died. That’s two handsets and a bunch of telephone cables headed for the bin, and that’s not counting the two long looping cables dangling off the roof that lead to the telephone pole on the road.
A week before, I disconnected my mother’s old landline. The day before, it was an old set-top box that became obsolete when the TV signal went digital. Probably joined the huge pile of e-waste generated by yours truly. Come to think of it, I’ve no idea where that player disappeared. The last time I owned a DVD player was nearly eight years ago. Just yesterday, I packed up a bunch of old DVDs to throw away as everything is available online these days. Seems that’s like throwing out 800 laptops every single second.
We are currently generating 40,000,000 tons of e-waste, every year.
IBACKUPBOT TAKING FOREVER UPGRADE
My other reason for delaying the upgrade is another snippet of news that I came across on the net. However, people rarely do things because of a single reason. Despite being a gadget-lover, I delayed upgrading because of the tear-inducing prices of iPhones in India. I can relate to that as my iPhone 6S+ is now into its fourth year. Falling iPhone sales may be bad for Apple, but keeping old iPhones going is good for Earth (photo©babulous)Ī few days ago, I saw a news article that said iPhone users now wait four years to upgrade their devices.
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