This pasta sauce wants to record your family

April 20, 2026 Andrew Liszewski

A family sits around a dinner table with plates of spaghetti and Prego’s Connection Keeper device in the middle.
The Connection Keeper is an offline voice recorder vaguely reminiscent of the metal lid on Prego jars. | Image: Prego

As if there weren't already enough devices listening in on everything being said in your home, Prego, the pasta and pizza sauce brand, is releasing a device designed to record everything said around the dinner table for posterity. The Connection Keeper, which looks like an oversized pasta jar lid, was created in collaboration with StoryCorps, the nonprofit organization focused on preserving the stories of Americans in a collection housed at the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center. There's no AI, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth, but you can optionally upload recordings to StoryCorps' website to make them easier to share with family.

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