Converged devices

Something recently reminded me of the silliest converged device I've seen.

It's after hurricane Wilma and I'm standing in line to buy a generator.  They don't have any, but we are standing in line in hopes that generators will show up.  We're all hungry for news and a guy volunteers that he has a portable TV.  He pulls out of his backpack a misshappen hunk of plastic with a built-in TV, radio, flashlight and reading light (a fluorescent lightbulb).  It's roughly the size of a toaster.  There's knobs, buttons, and compartments all over the thing.  He turns a knob and various lights and sounds emit but no TV.  He says it must be the battery.  I said but the other functions work.  He replies, "oh no, each function has its own set of batteries.  I just can never remember which set of batteries go with with which function".  He pulls out a large bag of different batteries and starts going through the compartments on the device.  It had a nine volt battery for the radio, D cells,  double A's and C cells.  The manufacturer had literally crammed the design for 4 separate devices into one block of plastic.

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