Cell Phone Booths & Sonic Grenades

So if (hypothetically speaking) I were, say... starting a bar, or a bistro (or a bar and bistro), I would be very tempted to include a Cell Phone Booth, which is basically a phone booth without the phone. Or, I suppose, just a booth. Well, a B.Y.O.P. (bring your own phone) booth. Anyway, the idea is to provide a private space for people to have a phone conversation, while sparing everyone else from having to listen to it. (It'll also be a much-appreciated convenience for Clark.) A company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, called C.P. Booth had the idea, and is making and selling them in red melamine ($2,650) and solid oak ($3,395), but with an unfortunately tacky font up top and a fairly drab design. Wired did a story on this/them last month (did you know there are 196 million cell phone users in the U.S.?), and I just, um, happened to be reminded of it. (No reason. Move along...)

Meanwhile, some diabolical bastard has created the Sonic Grenade, a brain-piercing alarm that's activated ten seconds after you pull the pin - and can only be deactivated by putting the pin back in. It's advertised (and sold) by Paladone as "the most annoying device ever" featuring "three pitches of skull-shattering sound", perfect for waking unsuspected people out of bed. (And making them hate you for an unspecified length of time.) But even more insidious is the Mind Molester from ThinkGeek, a tiny little device which, once hidden, emits an electronic chirp every three minutes designed solely to drive people insane.