Cross Peerless TrackR: the pen that's in love with your phone

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A decent pen is part of your successful image – there’s no point striding in with the fancy suit and the pointy shoes only to ruin the sealing of the deal by proffering a scratty pen. Fortunately, well-known pen maker Cross has done a deal with geek-known tracker maker TrackR to make the Cross Peerless TrackR pen (£215). The pen is paired with your phone so within ten metres or so, one can be triggered to reveal itself with the other. Should you stray further from your scribe, things get really geeky – all of TrackR’s four million app users can be made silent hunters of your pen. Now go seal that deal!

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Fraser used to wear a Psion Series 3 palmtop in a shoulder holster. Perhaps he still does.Either way, his lifelong mission - including fourteen years for Stuff - has been to see whether the consumer electronics industry can ever replicate that kind of cyborgian joy.So far: nope. Despite a plan to combine a action camera and Olympus Eye-Trek goggles to become Man Who Sees The Vision Of A Man Three Inches Taller Than Himself.He also likes mountain bikes, motorbikes, cars, helicopters. Still thinks virtual surround is witchcraft. Dislikes jetskis, despite never having been on one.