[He... Did not actually see the giant robot, so this is news to him, and also goes on his list of things to check out. But as for the rest of it, that all sounds very useful and practical, though he's of course a little concerned about Ian overdoing it.

For now, though, things seem okay, hopefully. So although he doesn't hide that he's a little dubious about this, he also doesn't bring it up, and instead pulls his phone from his pocket.]

This is what we had in Hadriel. The battery seems to run on magic, and probably the networking too, but other than that I don't know how it works except that it does normal phone stuff.