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Phone Plus Sensory Deprivation Equals...
Solo-Malee writes "The BBC has an article about a new phone technology that isolates the user from all other sensory input. This in theory means the user is not distracted by other things occurring in their immediate surroundings. If these catch on, it looks like getting a Jacuzzi for the office could be easier than you might expect."
Unless they're filling the office pool with water, this sounds like something that missed its (.com) era.
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
-- W.C. Fields
The subject says it all...
I'm sorry..but this is so retarded I don't know where to begin.
Why? Ugh..god...
I want what they're smoking...
In Soviet Russia, the television watches YOU!
First of all, it would take a while for me to not be distracted using this "phone." How many of you are not in some way excited every time you get a new tech toy. I would be thinking more about the device, how it works, and the fact that I am in water, more than about the conversation. Your general conversations: "Dude! I'm floating in water while I talk! Isn't that cool?!"
"Men lie."
"Yeah, about sleeping with other women, but never about bioluminescent plankton."
-Dan Brown
I don't think we're dangerous
Oh sure, no one ever does. "I can drive faster than the speed limit because I'm a better driver and that means I'm not dangerous!" or "I can steer with my knees because I'm in control and I'm not dangerous!"
I absolutely need to use my phone while driving
Oh really? Tell us Mr. President, how do you find time to relax with your oh so busy schedule? It must be hell, poor you!
Besides, I'm only on the phone for less than 5 minutes.
Oh, five minutes, is that all? Lets see, five minutes at 50Mph...that 4 Miles you covered without paying proper attention to what you're doing. Thats O.K though, because you're not dangerous, right?
People with too much time on their hands invent incredibly impractical device for easily distracted people who probably will never use it anyway.
"The Sage treasures Unity and measures all things by it" - Lao Tzu
Caller ID let me know who called and I could ecide if a return call was warranted because once a message is left the onus is on you to call back.
I can't stand you people... at least once a month, I get a call from someone that says, "Hi, I have your number in my caller id."
And I reply, "Ok, who are you?"
"I am such and such, you called my house."
"6 people live in my household. I don't know who called you. Were you expecting a call from us?"
And then they get all annoyed because they realize that they have no idea why they called. Meanwhile, you interrupted my chicken salad sandwich.
Lots of people think the phone is a convenience item for them, not to allow other people to reach you. well what about the phone number you're dialing? do they feel the same way as you? then aren't you just as bad as that big bad person calling you? In my previous job I hated people like that, who would never pick up the phone until I called 10 times, instead choosing to verbally abuse me after they finally pick up,without knowing why i was calling, or who I was. Dispite the fact that I was calling back to solve a problem they were having with their computer, calling back to solve it any way possible. the caller ID didn't say who i was, Just which line I was calling out of, it didn't even have my proper line. Answering machines are better, then I can leave a message. but the people who only use caller ID are very arrogant. what if the number was that of a hospital which didn't come up as "hospital" but just as a number you didn't know. Would you ignore it? dispite the fact that they are attempting to contact you about, for example, your child, your parent, your sibling, your spouse. The phone is a two way street. like it or lump it, it is a two way street.