Has the smartphone hijacked your dinner table? StoryCorps and Prego made this gadget to rescue your dinner convos

• StoryCorps and sauce-maker Prego partnered on a family recording device
• No AI or screens just capture dinner conversations
• Only available for a limited time

Prego, a company famous for making tomato sauce 🤌, and StoryCorps, a non-profit that's essentially the world's best listener, have partnered up to help families remember what dinner time was like before the smartphone.

Called The Connection Keeper, it's a puck-shaped audio-recording device that is about the size of a Prego sauce jar cap and should fit neatly in the middle of any dinner table.

There's no screen or operating system, just a pair of spatial audio microphones, capable of recording CD-quality audio, backed by an ARM Cortex-M7 CPU. It records to an on-board 16GB microSD card for up to 8 hours, if your dinners go that long.

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