Long before there were gizmos, gadgets and widgets,  there were “thingumajigs”. My father was always trying to buy a thingumajig, usually to repair our ageing Ford Popular or some broken household device.

According to one web dictionary definition, a thingumajig is “something whose name is either forgotten or not known”. Like any period of rapid change and technological development, the digital era we live in is full of new thingumajigs, many of them converged devices that defy easy classification.