SodaStream... awesome!!!
I blame the end of the cold war for it all, once the threat of everyone being wiped out by nuclear war at any given moment went out the window life slowly got duller. virtual reality turned into a damp squib and arcades died, playstation generation took over and what was once "computing studies" or even "computer science" in schools started its degeneration into "here's microsoft office and thats all you need to know about computers" or "ICT" as they call it which merely churns out drones for offices and callcentres.... bah darn kids! get off my lawn!
anyway yeah I agree, I've not been impressed by any tech so far this century - im still disgruntled that I dont have my home VirtualReality system, those hoverboards from back to the future have failed to appear and why... after all this time... people STILL can't believe it's not butter!