Forget Juicero, here are the tech gadgets we can actually get excited about in 2018

If this year’s $120m juicing flop gave you reason to doubt in human ingenuity, take heart in these incredible inventions to come: from an artificial kidney to a breast pump you might actually want to use

Silicon Valley lost a valiant soldier in 2017. Internet-connected juice maker Juicero, funded to the tune of $120m, drowned in schadenfreude after it was discovered that its pre-portioned $7 packets of fruit and veg could be squeezed just as effectively by hand.

Never before has a company so perfectly encapsulated the absurdity of much of the investment in “disruptive innovation” in the technology industry’s epicentre.

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