Squegg is the smart stress ball that wants you to get a grip

If you’re always surrounded by and using gadgets, the muscles that help you grip take a daily pounding. Squegg ($35) wants to improve your grip strength. The mutant offspring of a stress ball and grip stretcher, this squishy palm-sized device uses Bluetooth to talk to an app on a paired phone. You can then play squeeze-based games, track your progress, and challenge friends, to see who’s got a grip – so to speak. Although probably don’t get too invested in the stats, or your failure to top the leaderboards with your smart stress ball will lead to the kind of stress that can only be relieved with more Squegg use. Before you know it, you’ll be in a vicious cycle that only ends when you’ve forearms like Popeye’s. And no-one wants that.

Craig Grannell Contributor

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I’m a regular contributor to Stuff magazine and Stuff.tv, covering apps, games, Apple kit, Android, Lego, retro gaming and other interesting oddities. I also pen opinion pieces when the editor lets me, getting all serious about accessibility and predicting when sentient AI smart cookware will take over the world, in a terrifying mix of Bake Off and Terminator.

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Mobile apps and games, Macs, iOS and tvOS devices, Android, retro games, crowdfunding, design, how to fight off an enraged smart saucepan with a massive stick.