The best gadget I bought this year was a $50 piece of metal whose sole job is to prop up another piece of metal (my laptop). Actually, no, it was definitely a computer monitor. Scratch that, it was an Ethernet cord the length of a fire hose.

If you had told me a year ago that the must-have gadgets of 2020 were actually the most boring office gadgets of 2002, I’d have told you to slow down on the wine coolers. Yet here we are.

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This post first appeared on wsj.com

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