Name the Gizmo: What Is This?

Anybody have any idea what this gizmo is called?

I know how it's used: Patients who check in at the Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson are given one of these gadgets at the front desk. When it's time for you to move on over to the financial office, it beeps and tells you to go there.

When it's time to head back to your doctor's clinic, it beeps again, and gives you that message on the screen.

I like it. One reason is that this way no one is calling your name out in a huge lobby full of people. So it protects patients' privacy. And two, I like gadgets.

But what is it called? Or maybe we should just make up a name?

Any ideas?

The photo at right is a closeup of the screen on the gizmo.

@ Jeanne Sather 2007.

Comments

[Tarr]

You could call it your "three-year-old" - because three year olds are pretty able to tell you what they want and you must attend to their needs.

[Beth]

It's a pager. Okay, it's probably the fanciest one you've ever seen, but a pager none the less.

[Jeanne]

Maybe it's a grown-up Tamagotchi...remember that toy from Japan that had to be taken care of when it beeped?

A pager? Nah. Needs a better name than that. Something from Star Trek ...

Jeanne