ComTab

The ComTab is a device from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

The ComTab is a small portable version of the communications system at the Griffin Rock fire station. It allows the user to take emergency calls via videophone and coordinate response efforts, all from a remote location. It can somehow receive video of distant locations from improbable viewpoints, such as aerial views of buildings and even rivers.

Fiction

Rescue Bots cartoon

When the Lobster and Technology Festival was overrun with hostile flobsters, Chief Burns handed Cody the ComTab so the boy could respond to emergency calls. The first touble he detected using the ComTab was Mayor Luskey under flobster attack, and sent Graham to help. When Frankie Greene was trapped in a phone booth by flobsters, her emergency call also went through to the ComTab. Flobsters on Parade

Cody used the ComTab to show the Rescue Bots pictures of dogs helping human emergency services. Walk on the Wild Side It was invaluable when Cody needed to coordinate rescue efforts from city hall during a snowstorm created by an out of control weather machine. It also alerted him when Frankie was in danger on the river. Christmas in July About to depart on a trip to try and catch a mechanical shark, Chief Burns sent Cody to monitor the situation from the pier using the ComTab. Deep Trouble

It proved useful in warning Cody that Frankie was about to be eaten by a robot dinosaur. Return of the Dino Bot Cody had the ComTab at the laboratory when a sample of Squilsh escaped. He, Frankie and Doc Greene used it to keep in touch with the rest of the Burns family as they pursued the Squilsh. You've Been Squilshed

Cody used it to track ghost sightings during an epidemic. The Haunting of Griffin Rock It was used to access the security recordings at the river when Chase and Chief Burns went missing. Little White Lies