Converging … But To What Value?

There’s another of these “spot wildlife and tell us about it” projects being started up,
this time for the
endangered red squirrel. Now, I have to admit that when they first starting
bringing out the ridiculously expensive camera phones, I was part of the chorus
saying that they’d been overhyped, they’d obviously never get used and they would
probably be crap anyway. Well,
my new phone has proved me wrong(when I eventually get around
to writing up some reviews of concerts we’ve been to recently, you’ll see), but I
think projects such as these have proved the worth of the (now much less expensive)
camera phone.

They’ve now been used to
halt potentially dangerous flights, and
catch
criminals. So perhaps this convergence isn’t just a gimic, although many still
Manufacturers seem to be catching a clue about the “whack them together ‘coz we can”
approach being a bit crap … Elly
recently found a great example, in the form of a
stepcounter/panic
alarm. Anyone got other good or numbskull examples of convergence devices?