At the Home and Housewares Show, All Things Bright and Clever

THE International Home and Housewares Show at the McCormick Place convention center this week boasted “13 miles of aisles,” and if you were to walk them, perhaps as a visitor from another planet, you might have the following impressions.

These Earth people love coffee and little brightly colored, high-tech coffee makers, but perhaps they all live alone, for they seem obsessed with something called “single-serve units.”

They are very environmentally concerned: everywhere it is green this, recycle that. They are determined to cut back on waste, no matter how many new products they have to buy to do that.

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