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Cellphones do just about everything now: they access the internet, take photographs, send text messages and so on.
But phones are for putting noise right into another persons ear. And sometimes you want a noise you cant make. For this: the Quack Button. When hit, instead of a the person on the
other end hearing a beep, they hear a loud Quack.
The Quack would be the default setting. It would be possible to download other sounds off the internet. One could have entire Spike Jones-like conversations composed of nonword sounds.
credit for the QB to one BH, who told me her idea for it today.
AFLAC
http://www.aflac.co...dia_center_news.asp
Another company famous for its duck. Download the screensaver hear it. [phoenix, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
They have fantastic parties
http://www.ducks.org/
[thumbwax, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
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<Quack/> Sounds good to me <Aooooooga/> |
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Could double as a relief button for hypochondriacs in public spaces. Just press the quack button and a genuine faux doctor answers and soothes your worries. |
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is Moo an option? who said that? |
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bungston: I need a "raspberry" button - not because I can't make one, but for when I respond over-honestly to what the other person says, I can say "Oops, pressed the wrong button, sorry".
jutta: that's sweet. Shows the enormous power of subtlety in advertising.
phoenix: funniest is the latest ad, where the duck *doesn't* quack (it's too busy watching a Vegas floor show). |
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You're kidding me. You can't make a quack noise? You want a phone to do this for you? |
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+ My Sister regularly phones me and starts the conversation either with a Belch or a <chicken> B'kaaaaark!</chicken>
I need the QB to even things up. |
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My brother and I used to have whole conversations in Donald Duck speak. Drives people crazy, if you do it in public. |
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I have this suspicion that just about everything you do in public drives people crazy. ;) |
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//pull cord talking farm animal noise toys// I think toddlers have cell phones these days, so I suppose you could combine them. |
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