There are moments in one's life when one's mood expresses a certain need.

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I don't know whether it was the fact that mercury had finally stopped being in retrograde -- or whether the full moon had finally done its worst -- but I really wanted to see something that would give my life a new meaning.

Or, at least, something that would make me reconsider the meaning of technology.

So I drifted to the repository of all things material, Amazon, to see what it could offer. 

Deliberately and specifically, I searched for "weird tech gadgets."

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This has been my marginal penchant of late, ever since I began living with a robot cat.

What could Amazon offer to beat that? How, indeed, would Amazon's vast inner intelligence define "weird"?

I was uplifted to see that there were 2,000 results. Clearly, I was about to descend into a vortex of outr