Keeping Track of a Cell Phone, It’s Pipsqueaks All the Way Down

 Keeping Track of a Cell Phone, Its Pipsqueaks All the Way Down

DisplayBlog has the CES scoop on a new gadget called PipSqueak (how long before the enjambed-and-capitalized style for compound words is enshrined in the Chicago Manual of Style?):

PipSqueak noti­fies you when­ever your phone is receiv­ing a call. The noti­fi­ca­tion can be adjusted to any of sev­eral lev­els, includ­ing “vibra­tion only” to “vibra­tion, light & sound”. Upon being noti­fied, you may sim­ply retrieve/answer your phone.

The tiny bluetooth clip fastens readily to briefcase strap, lapel, or earlobe. Its most useful feature: when it loses track of your phone, it begins to buzz—a great safeguard against losing your phone. The only trouble is, what keeps you from losing your PipSqueak? Clearly, we also need a PipPatch, an adhesive padwhich delivers a transdermal shock whenever it loses track of the PipSqueak; and a SqueakPip, which is implantable in your neck…

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