Overview
- Prego’s pasta-sauce brand and the nonprofit StoryCorps announced a puck-shaped recorder that captures dinner-table talk to a microSD card.
- The device uses two microphones to record up to eight hours of CD‑quality audio, starts and stops only when you press its single button, and has no AI, Wi‑Fi, or Bluetooth.
- A $20 Connection Keeper Bundle available starting Monday, April 27 includes the recorder, a jar of Prego sauce, spaghetti, a prompt-card deck, and a USB‑C cable, with fewer than 100 units planned.
- Families can optionally upload files to a StoryCorps microsite expected in early May to share recordings or contribute them to StoryCorps’ collection preserved at the U.S. Library of Congress.
- Prego and StoryCorps say the goal is to keep phones off the table and encourage real conversation, while coverage describes the collaboration as a novelty marketing move and flags privacy concerns.