When we see alluring phone concepts that'll never leave the lab, we end up wishing there was a little more innovation in the handsets out in the wild.

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"It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind, " he says.

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Ours was an Irish generation told we'd never have to leave home and endure the relative shame of having a nation unable to sustain our aspirations.

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