google phone

This is the real Google phone, as shown in Marcus Tandler’s “My Top7 Google Swags“. He describes the phone:

People always wonder what this thing is, and I keep joking it’s my direct line to Matt Cutts, but it’s actually a pretty cool VoIP phone. But to be honest, I wondered if this thing has been bugged before I got it - cause occasionally, when I talk about spammy URLs on that phone, 2 hours later they’re gone from the index

At the first glance that thing looks more like a night-vision binocular to me, but after looking at it for a while, hmm, it does look kinda look like a phone… That circle at the center is a probably a webcam (where Google is spying on Marcus day and night). :)

On a related note, this Google phone ranked No.2 on his Top 7 list, after the Google fridge.

[photo by Marcus Tandler, used under a CC-license]