article_snippet: For the last year, the three-person team has been working a circular, palm-sized device dubbed Runcible.
article_snippet: a circular, palm-sized device dubbed Runcible is meant to be the antidote to our feed-obsessed, notification-saturated digital existence.
article_snippet: Runcible isn't meant to be a smartphone replacement so much as an alternative.
article_snippet: If miniaturizing the computer is what got us the smartphone, Runcible asks what a gizmo might look like if you started by souping up a pocket watch.
article_snippet: At this point, Runcible as much a provocation as an actual product.
article_snippet: Still, even as a hint of a possible device, Runcible is compelling.
article_snippet: Runcible is just one scrappy, literal attempt to abandon the rectangle.
highlights_snippet: A Californian startup has developed a circular smartphone called "Runcible"
  