...throwing my money away.

Oh no.  People are actually gonna buy this.  This makes my brain hurt a little bit... Ok Mike, pull it together.  You can do this.  It's not THAT stupid.  Somebody might have an actual reason to buy it.  Just give it a shot; you're just talking about the thing, after all.

Ok, so a company called Peek has released the Twitter Peek.  "What's the Twitter Peek?" you ask.  Well, if you must know, it's a phone.  That doesn't do anything but Twitter.

Someone you follow just posted a link you want to look at?  Too bad.  Twitter Peek has no web browser.  Your buddy just tweeted an embarrassing picture of your roommate from last night's drunken escapades?  Ha!  You can't look at pictures on this thing!  Maybe your having a confusing Twitter conversation with your significant other and you decide to call them because this is getting silly.  Better pull out your other phone, because Twitter Peek doesn't call people.

You know what Twitter Peek does do?  It does Twitter, but only kind of, given that following tweeted links and viewing tweeted pictures fall into the category of "things I would call essential to the Twitter experience".  The Twitter Peek is a unitasker.  And if you hold the same opinion of unitaskers that I share with Alton Brown, you'll realize that this is a stupid, stupid device.

So, how much would you pay to carry around an extra phone shaped device that you may grab accidentally when you're trying to grab your phone or your mp3 player?  Really, that much?  Ok, what if I told you that it only did one thing and didn't do it particularly well?  Ah, that's better.  Well, Peek seems to think that you'll pay $199.95 for this pile of crap with service for the lifetime of the device.  Now, you might say, "Oh, the lifetime of the device, maybe it's crap and it'll die after six months."  But think about it.  You'll have service until the service no longer exists.  You know why?  Because you'll never actually use this thing because it's that stupid.  You may never even have to charge the battery, 'cause you'll turn it off and forget you have it after a day or so.

And if your response to the $200 price tag is, "Well, two hundred bucks is a bit more than I'd like feed to a goat today, but $100 seems like it would be easy enough on my pocket book and keep the goat fed through April," have I got a deal for you.  For only $99.95 you can get a Twitter Peek with six months of service.  After your six months is out, you can set $7.95 on fire every month or send it to Peek, it really makes no difference.