Ready to runcible

IS IT a clock? Is it a rock? It’s a Runcible. That is the name of what might be the strangest-looking smartphone ever designed. Styled after an old-fashioned fob-watch, it takes its name from the works of Edward Lear, a 19th-century British poet who invented nonsense words. Its Californian (where else) creator, Monohm, bills it as an “anti-smartphone” that does not dare to distract its user with alerts and beeps and other forms of information overload. Instead of lots of hyperactive apps, for instance, the Runcible provides only a simple summary of its user’s social networking.