Tiny ideas (TVs)
What if the reason there are so few TVs is that most of them die from malformed teleportation? With arrogant belief in their abilities, they end up teleporting incorrectly and intersecting with something, and die from being split apart.
Polycephaly with a queue of little cams wanting a gentle shakedown to reset their gyros and accelerometers, and humans wanting a shakedown to fix their backs.