Cradle

"It's the first thing you see when you wake up, it's the last thing you see at night." 

A not-so-comforting observation about cell phones, from an ad for the apparent iphone competitor HTC. (Whatever that is; I'm still an unsophisticated telephone consumer.) If the futurists of 25 years ago tried to imagine our modern communications technology, they easily could have made it sound like a dystopia; they also could have made it sound a lot of fun.