Re: May be gadgets struggling to find a use.
Your experience fits nicely in with what I just said in my post - this is engineers making technology for the sake of it without working out what you are really going to do with it. Then the marketing people have to dress it up in fancy boxes to sell it.
What is needed is a company that actually does not give in to engineers or marketeers - a company that actually invents what this stuff is practically used for.