Dan In The Kitchen

The other day I had to go to Sears (whatever happened to Roebuck and the others? A Mystery for a different page, I guess....) for something manly and toolish (a chainsaw I think it was) and I passed by the Home Electronic Gizmo Section. Among the endless rows of televisions, DVD players and stereo equipment of dubious fidelity and durability, there were a handful of Kitchen Electronic Whatsits.
I don't know what made up name they go by, but these things are affixed to the underside of upper kitchen cabinets, and are usually outfitted with a clock/timer/alarm, a radio with either a tape or cd player, sometimes a light to illumine the counter below and now... televisions.
They're not cheap, running up towards $800, with little flat screens that swing down and which can be pivoted and tilted to suit the would be viewer's needs.
It's just that I can't figure out how such a thing could ever possibly be aligned in the right way for me. I'm either at the sink, the fridge, looking down at a cutting board in a frivolous attempt to see what I'm cutting so that I don't slice off any of my fingers, bending over to fill the dishwasher, looking across the huge built-in table I built back in more ambitious days while I talk to someone on the other side, rummaging in the pantry for something in the ingredient world or in a cupboard for dishes, cups, pots, pans or utensils. I do not stand still in the kitchen for a very long time looking at a spot just under the cabinet that holds the small glass plates, above the counter where I keep the large jars of FUS (frequently used spices) and bottles of various cooking oils. I imagine that I look at that space now and then, but in terms of continuity, watching a tv program in the kitchen would be an experience similar to reading a paragraph of a book every 15 or 20 pages. Hardly enough to remember what narrative I'm reading, never mind actually keeping up with the plot.
So who buys these? Do they stand in the kitchen watching them? Why aren't they watching a much larger screen in a room with a chair? I'm all for multitasking, within reason, but I can't imagine preparing so much as a bowl of cereal while watching the tube without sloshing milk from here to there. As for anything more haute than that, all I can foresee is a room with raw ingredients strewn about ala Mr Magoo without his glasses, flames leaping and smoke billowing from burning ingredients on the stove and the likelihood of broken bones, lacerations and bruises. Is my imagination too limited? Is there a way to cook in the kitchen while soaking in the Simpsons and nodding at the news?
If there were a way to spend quality time with a television, something I have considerable doubt about, I think I would take the dough one of these things cost and buy something large and sharp and put it in a room with some comfortable sitting devices, fairly removed from the hustle and bustle, crash and tumult of the food preparation area.
But that's just me. Maybe one of you need one of these. If you get one, let me know how it works out.