You don't have to spend much to fix little annoyances in everyday life.
Steve Jobs once said that customers don't know what they want until you show them. And he was right. But he was also lucky because he was showing people iPhones and not, say, rechargeable nose trimmers.
Of course, when Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, Amazon wasn't the global behemoth it's since become. Now there's virtually nothing Amazon doesn't sell, and a lot of it is dirt cheap. In the post-Bezos world, Jobsian marketing principles no longer apply. Customers still may not know what they want, but if it's cheap enough, they'll buy it anyway and then throw it out and buy something else.
Thus begins our quest to assemble a list of cheap gadgets that are worth every penny, which should come in handy around the shopping season. If you treat them right, these may last you for many holidays to come.
It's the middle of the night when you wake up and need to head to the en-suite bathroom. You snap on the light and you're blinded because it's too bright. Or worse, you wake up your spouse, who can't easily get back to sleep even with their favorite sleeping app.
