If you like your handsfree calls with a heavy dose of grotesquerie, welcome the Moving Lips Speakerphone to your nightmares. Alexander Graham Bell meets Hieronymous Bosch in this telecommunications abomination, featuring disturbing metalline lips that move in time with your caller’s voice. Why? We imagine some telecom mogul turned the company over to his art student son, who foisted this horror onto the public as some kind of postmodern meta-prank. It’s a disquieting monstrosity lurching out from the darkest cranny of your brain’s primal fear-center – or, at least, from the cover of an old issue of Omni. But unlike most haunting visions of torment, it does have an OFF switch.

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