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How it works is the cell phone has a built in breathalyzer so it can tell when the operator is too inebriated to warrant conversation with another human being. It would stop all those embarrassing conversations with work mate’s partners and more importantly ex partners while in a sloppy state. The phone
would only allow calls to taxis and ambulances the only people you should be talking with at that stage of proceedings
(?) Same problem, different solution.
http://reuters.exci...ALIA-PHONES-DC.html
"An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls." [jutta, Nov 30 2004]
Similar idea, using voice recognition technology in new cars
http://www.halfbake...20Speech_20Detector
[theircompetitor, Nov 30 2004]
Now baked
http://abcnews.go.c...gy/story?id=2125709
[theircompetitor, Jun 28 2006]
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Many is the time that I have bought a carton of beer,
taken it home and drunk it all by myself, then thought it
would be a good idea to ring up anybody and everybody
in my phone book and abuse them and their families, this
sure would save me alot of embarresment the next day. |
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I'd never get another call off my sister if she had one of these! |
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Keeping your phone numbers in SMS form, rather than in the built-in phonebook, eliminates drinking & dialling very effectively. |
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[Bondy] - Er, yeah, great website. I'd say its interest band is a bit narrower than you suggest in your link description. |
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I badly need one that detects from the receiving end!
Also one that works on all the other drugs, as well as alcohol. |
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And maybe dispense a breath mint into the operators mouth during a word with the letter "o" to hopefully save the rest of us who would have to deal with them in person. |
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but when im drunk, i find it boring to talk to cab drivers and ambulance dispatchers. they're all business. but for the drunks that desire a social filter before they are able to use their phones, how about a "concentration" type game you have to play with the buttons before you can dial out? pfperry? you feeling that? |
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Maybe, if you're drunk, the phone could just block the outgoing call, then play a ring tone and play random language-like gibberish at you. You won't know the difference, and in the morning you'll probably have forgotten the call anyway. |
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As a general rule this wouldn't work, what with the occasional very important reason to call someone e.g. "I've cut my leg and I'm running out of blood" or "I can't get home, can you come and get me". A filter that sets certain numbers as off limits would be good, but as [jutta] pointed out, its already been done. |
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