Skwak Pad

"Who's Who Document" vector art

The Skwak Pad (pronounced /skwæk pæd/) is a portable computer invented by Dr. Marbles, first appearing in "Lost My Marbles". Motherboard describes them as "walkie-talkies and drawing boards rolled into one".

The main four members of the CyberSquad use their Skwak Pads frequently throughout the series, as a radio telecommunications device, an advanced graphing calculator and visual aid for problem-solving, a projector, an access point for the search engine Gwiggle, and a camera. The Skwak Pad also has an I/O port on the bottom, which can be used to attach peripheral devices. A virtual assistant named Skwaki is used in Season 12.

Physical appearance

The tablet design for the Skwak Pad as it appears in Quest 1: Mission Motherboard (2020)

The early design of the Skwak Pad from "The Poddleville Case"

The Skwak Pad is a turquoise, irregularly shaped electronic device, resembling that of a cybikos PDA, exactly one cyberfoot in length. It has a coiled orange wire that protrudes from the top, an antenna at the top right, and a keypad below the screen. The purple-blue buttons directly below the screen have mathematical operations, and the yellow-green buttons have numbers and other symbols, very much like a calculator.

In more recent material, such as certain Season 12 and Season 13 episodes and the 2020 version of Quest 1: Mission Motherboard, the Skwak Pad is redesigned to resemble a smartphone or small tablet. It retains elements of the earlier design, such as its irregular shape.

"The Poddleville Case" (pilot)

In the original pilot, "The Poddleville Case", the Skwak Pad is light blue and has a simpler shape, a white antenna at the top left, a red keypad, and a speaker.

Bio

"Who's Who Document"

The Skwak Pad is an ingenious electronic device that’s part PDA, phone, calculator, camera and computer. It’s how the kids talk to each other from different parts of cyberspace.They use it to keep track of things too, especially when problems are complicated.

Appearances

Cyberchase

• "Lost My Marbles"
• "Castleblanca"
• "R-Fair City"
• "Snow Day To Be Exact"
• "Sensible Flats"
• "Zeus on the Loose"
• "The Poddleville Case"
• "And They Counted Happily Ever After"
• "Clock Like an Egyptian"
• "The Secrets of Symmetria"
• "A Day at the Spa"
• "Of All the Luck"
• "Eureeka"
• "Cool It"
• "Find Those Gleamers!"
• "Codename: Icky"
• "Return to Sensible Flats"
• "Problem Solving in Shangri-La"
• "Send in the Clones"
• "Trading Places"
• "Less Than Zero"
• "Model Behavior"
• "Fortress of Attitude"
• "Size Me Up"
• "A Battle of Equals"
• "Out of Sync"
• "Hugs and Witches"
• "Totally Rad"
• "Harriet Hippo and the Mean Green"
• "True Colors"
• "All the Right Angles"
• "Mother's Day"
• "The Eye of Rom"
• "A Whale of a Tale"
• "Double Trouble"
• "Raising the Bar"
• "The Wedding Scammer"
• "The Guilty Party"
• "A Time to Cook"
• "Trick or Treat"
• "EcoHaven CSE"
• "The Borg of the Ring"
• "A World Without Zero"
• "A Piece of the Action"
• "The Creech Who Would Be Crowned"
• "The Grapes Of Plath"
• "A Perfect Fit"
• "Be Reasonable"
• "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 1"
• "The Snelfu Snafu: Part 2"
• "Shari Spotter and the Cosmic Crumpets"
• "Starlight Night"
• "Balancing Act"
• "The Icky Factor"
• "Penguin Tears"
• "Past Perfect Prediction"
• "Measure for Measure"
• "A Change of Art"
• "The Case of the Missing Memory"
• "A Crinkle in Time"
• "A Broom of One's Own"
• "A Tikiville Turkey Day"
• "The Halloween Howl"
• "A Clean Sweep"
• "Designing Mr. Perfect"
• "EcoHaven Ooze"
• "The Fairy Borg Father"
• "The Flying Parallinis"
• "Crystal Clear"
• "Inside Hacker"
• "On the Line"
• "A Fraction of a Chance"
• "Digit's B-Day Surprise"
• "When Penguins Fly"
• "Unhappily Ever After"
• "Escape from Merlin's Maze"
• "Step by Step"
• "Team Spirit"
• "Jimaya Jam"
• "Chaos as Usual"
• "Spheres of Fears"
• "Gone With the Fog"
• "The Emperor Has Snow Clothes"
• "The X-Factor"
• "Blowin' in the Wind"
• "Father's Day"
• "The Deedle Beast"
• "Spellbound"
• "The Hacker's Challenge"
• "Face-Off"
• "Peace, Love, and Hackerness"
• "Hackerized"
• "The Bluebird of Zappiness"
• "An Urchin Matter"
• "Going Solar"
• "Trash Creep"
• "The Cyberchase Movie: Part 1"
• "The Cyberchase Movie: Part 2"
• "Fit To Be Heroes"
• "A Recipe For Chaos"
• "A Seedy Business"
• "Parks and Recreation"
• "Bottled Up"
• "Watts on Halloween Trouble"
• "Creech's Creature Quandary"
• "A Murky Mystery In Mermaidos"
• "Plantasaurus!"
• "A Reboot Eve to Remember"
• "Housewarming Party"
• "Invasion of the Funky Flower"
• "A Renewable Hope"
• "The Migration Situation"
• "Back to Canalia's Future"

Gallery

"Who's Who Document" vector art

Skwak Pad with a question mark

Motherboard generating Skwak Pads in "Lost My Marbles"

Front view of new Skwak Pad