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Letter: Some of our readers' favourite inventions

Published 14 December 2016

From Barbara Wager, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, UK

I take issue with John Agar when he says that the mobile phone is “a rare case of a technology that is so important that we carry it everywhere”. He seems to forget the wrist watch. Personally, I carry my hearing aids everywhere.

Issue no. 3104 published 17 December 2016

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