By Riley Gutiérrez McDermid Are you close enough to a compatible charging station to keep your truck going? It is fairly common while covering the tech community that new developments are heralded as unprecedented and life-changing. The problem is that many of them are not — who can forget Amazon’s (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report health tracking Halo or Google’s (GOOGL) – Get Alphabet Inc. Class A Report ill-fated glasses — and thus an already fatigued consumer based becomes more cynical about which technological advances could really change the world. A weary public has now seen tech gad…