I had the original 1977 "Products That Think" catalog [1]. Sugarman did a great job hyping some not-so-spectacular products. I did buy the Sharp Elsimate EL-8

I had the original 1977 "Products That Think" catalog [1]. Sugarman did a great job hyping some not-so-spectacular products. I did buy the Sharp Elsimate EL-8130 calculator and considered getting his "Pocket CB" but it encouraged me to learn just enough about RF to know that his tiny fixed-crystal CH14 AM 27.125 MHz device would be a bad choice to communicate with other CBs which is what I really wanted to do. It may look cheap now but remember, for $20 you could then easily get a pair of CB-CH14 kid walkie talkies with longer telescoping antennas, what it was essentially. [1] https://archive.org/details/products-that-think-01/page/n27/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/products-that-think-01/page/n27/...