Cell Lock-Up~ Mini Jail
About the size of a toaster, this is a tongue-in-cheek jail cell for your child's (or spouse's) cell phone, designed to bring levity to the issue of the technological erosion of family time.
The rather cheap feeling plastic case has a "lock" which is designed to be hacked (an alarm will sound). After you put your device in the cage, you set a timer for 15, 30, 45, or 60 minute terms, using the push button timer.
A judge's voice announces the sentence as the door is shut. Once time has been served, the judge announces that "justice is served" and the cell phone users are "free to rejoin digital society". If you try to remove your phone before time is up, an alarm sounds and a guard announces, "Alert! Alert! Break-out in progress!”
This type of gadget naturally raises the question: Have we really come to a point when we need to lock a child's phone in a jail? What happened to plain old parenting, where we take the phones away during homework or tell our kids no phones allowed at the dinner table?
The rather cheap feeling plastic case has a "lock" which is designed to be hacked (an alarm will sound). After you put your device in the cage, you set a timer for 15, 30, 45, or 60 minute terms, using the push button timer.
A judge's voice announces the sentence as the door is shut. Once time has been served, the judge announces that "justice is served" and the cell phone users are "free to rejoin digital society". If you try to remove your phone before time is up, an alarm sounds and a guard announces, "Alert! Alert! Break-out in progress!”
This type of gadget naturally raises the question: Have we really come to a point when we need to lock a child's phone in a jail? What happened to plain old parenting, where we take the phones away during homework or tell our kids no phones allowed at the dinner table?
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