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This is most commonly the result of a set constructed with lots of control panels, but no one keeping track of which button serves which purpose in the context of the story.
These are often used to control the [[Do
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== Advertising ==
* The Staples chain of office supply stores ran a series of TV commercials in which someone is out of a certain office supply, then presses a big red button labeled "EASY" which caused a large quantity of the missing office supply to appear. A later commercial parodied earlier ones by having an EASY button accidentally held down, causing massive quantities of various office supplies to materialize around an office building.<br /><br />In another ad, office supplies randomly fall from the air -- until a family discovers their one-year-old happily playing with a new toy. Current commercials have people [[Magic
== Anime ==
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== Real Life ==
* BMW developed a system which gave you a single knob/button to control the entire center console with, be it audio, air conditioning, GPS or something else entirely. They called it the "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDrive iDrive]," which is a [[Non
* Cellular telephones often have keys below the screen with just a dot or line on them, and they do whatever it says on the screen directly above them. These are literally called "context keys".
* Also the [[Nintendo DS]]. Or any other device with a tactile-sensitive screen. That was the driving principle behind inventing them, after all.
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