Although once common courtesy to turn off your phone when spending quality time with a friend, it’s clearly not so common anymore. How often are you having lunch with someone nowadays when in the middle of a conversation they’ll just start casually flipping through their phone like you’re not there, suddenly half invested in the dialogue? Whether they’re skimming through Facebook, texting someone back, surfing the web or even worse just distractedly skipping through pages, it always seems to be just as important as their conversations with you. What kind of bullshit is that dude? If I’m really that boring, why are you having lunch with me? You should introduce these social dilettantes to the Phonekerchief. What does it do? Well let me tell you. Wrapping your phone within the Phonekerchief’s special silver fiber-woven fabric effectively blocks all incoming calls and texts, blocking the signal so you can totally commit to the people you’re actually in the company of. How novel is that? The Phonekerchief even comes embroidered with a polite message notifying the person you’re with that your phone is off for them…perhaps a subtle hint to let them know it would be appreciated if they did the same for you. A perfect gift for those iPhone addicts just in time for the holidays for $15.

The Phonekerchief in action after the Jump…