That stuff really bugs me...while I don't mind Reed Richards is Useless on a grand scale, little things like this won't shift the world excessively away from the real world...
DC's been better about this lately - we've been seeing signs of use of smaller bits of supertech showing up, in medicine and communications, at least, though these two particular (small) examples haven't, that I've seen. Marvel may have, as well, but I don't read much Marvel.