For every handy smartphone app that we often use, there's another two with functionality so narrow and specific that we rarely touch them. That's fine because apps are just bytes. But in the realm of physical products, this kind of extraneousness is more damning: Designers and engineers put in hours, plastic is injection molded, packaging is printed, warehouses are stocked, fuel is burned--all to briefly bring some worthless gewgaw into a consumer's home prior to the landfill.
Celebrity chef Alton Brown highlights the problem of these unlovely "unitaskers"--in this case, kitchen implements with absurdly singular missions--with a scathing, and funny, roundup review:
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