I know, right? Someone recently contracted with me to build them a circuit to prevent accidental triggering of a pushbutton. So I did something where a double-click of the pushbutton results in a single contact closure output. Entire design was done in an 8-pin Tiny13 that cost about $0.50 @ qty 10 and the PC board is barely larger than the switch itself!

Still amazes me that I can buy an entire computer for fifty cents.

I was boggled by reading Bunnie Huang's diagnosis of some counterfeit SD cards. The SD card manufacturers have realized it's cheaper to put an entire ARM processor on each SD card to diagnose and bypass bad blocks of flash instead of using a very expensive machine to do the testing. Think about that for a sec.