Ever been napping/sleeping soundly when the phone rings?
And rings?
And rings?
You're shaken and/or stirred, aren't you?
Especially when the telemarketing auto-dialer auto-hangs-up, aren't you?
No More!

Behold!
The ZaPhone is a remote which not only has Caller ID, but a Ringer Kill Switch.

zzzzzzzzz
-- thumbwax, Jul 23 2002

Bekkit http://www.halfbake...idea/Phone_20Zapper
[DrCurry, Jul 23 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Baked, with an actual product http://www.telezapper.com/default.asp
I hear that this thing doesn't work worth a shit, though.. [Mr Burns, Jul 23 2002]

Baked, with an actual service http://www.ameritec...86,196-2938,00.html
This works well [Mr Burns, Jul 23 2002]

I think StarChaser done that one. No, wait, it was the legendary BigThor. StarChaser merely endorsed it.
-- DrCurry, Jul 23 2002


Phone Zapper is for actually sending electrical charges through the caller's nervous system - which is a GREAT idea, but does not apply to this one. This is a silencer.
-- thumbwax, Jul 23 2002


Just a matter of degree (as evidenced by the smell of burning flesh lingering around the Phone Zapper).
-- DrCurry, Jul 23 2002


'Za phone... direct line to the local pizza joint?
-- waugsqueke, Jul 23 2002


Sounds like a good idea...until a call you've been waiting for gets automatically silenced because of some unforeseen snafu or technical complication. I suppose the answering machine would still kick in as usual, though.

Aw, heck...have a croissant! :)
-- XSarenkaX, Jul 23 2002


I can program 56,000 number combinations into my block call option, but can't seem to get

8 … U.
6 … N.
5 … K.
6 … N.
6 … O.
9 … W.
6 … N.

to work.
-- reensure, Jul 23 2002


You can, at least around here (Verizon), reject all calls with caller ID blocked.
-- DrCurry, Jul 23 2002


If you could adapt it to zap visitors/neighbours knocking on the door when I'm asleep/in the shower, I'd pay a lot of money for it.

Although a visitor kill switch may be a tad excessive.
-- Helium, Jul 24 2002


Depends on the visitor, aye
-- thumbwax, Jul 24 2002


Glad to see your "Behold!" in there. Keep up the good work.
-- entremanure, Jul 24 2002



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