Combo Tech

The cell phone has morphed into a combo tech tool. It can be a telephone, a camera, a GPS monitor, a music player, a video player, a Web browser, a text message or email typer, and who knows what else. So, how about doing something with the telephone handset? It could be a TV remote, a VHS and DVD player remote (at least for basics), a garage door opener, a ceiling fan remote, and who knows what else. What spawned this idea of mine? Well, this morning at breakfast, I reached under the newspapers for the TV remote, picked up the telephone handset by mistake, and pressed its buttons to no avail. They say necessity is the mother of invention and I say that human frailty is the father of salvation. To err is human, to forgive divine. Help me here and cut down the number of gadgets we have around the house.