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Adding Background Noise To Your Phone Call
lww writes "By way of a Gizmodo article, you can now add your own background noise to a cell phone call. A company called Simeda is offering a product called SounderCover that allows you to play selected background noises such as traffic, construction, and even the dentist during your phone call. The possibilities are endless! 'Hi honey, I'm going to be late -- I'm stuck in the middle of a circus parade...Bye! Hey Joe, another round for me and the boys...what? Oh, whoops *click*'"
Now I can talk on the phone while having sex... I'll just play some nice traffic jam noises... No one will be any wiser!
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that makes my phone sound like it's losing the connection so I can get out of boring conversations easily.
Now you can play noises of having sex while you talk on the phone.
Does it have a silent backgoud noise so that the other person can actually hear me?
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I'd find another use for that Godzilla
Sex sound dial?
;-)
Whoops! Telemarketer called. With the OHGODYES!!WoW!AAAAAAAaaaaa... in the background, theyre going to hang up preeeeety quick
Course, if your wife calls wit hthis setting on. Uh-oh.
"Hi! Hey, I'm at a really swinging party right now, but sure I think I can pull myself away for a bit!"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Play keyboard clicking sounds when he calls me on the phone so it sounds like I'm working.... :)
I think it'd be possible but really hard to do.
I'd like all my outgoing phone calls to start with a voice saying: "Please Hold for the President"
We all live in a #FFFF00 submarine...
"Honey, who was that moaning in the background when I called you earlier?"
"No one, baby. It's just one of those silly background noises you can download."
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
"Hi honey, don't hold dinner, I'm banging the secretary again."
The Circus Parade MP3 was a very savvy marketing move. Considering that most people in technology (the obvious target demographic) work at freakshows, it should come in quite handy.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Einstein Express: "For when it absolutely, positively has to be there the day before yesterday".
and then they proceed to show workers back-dating it and then beating the crap out of the package, while stamping with the postmark of four third-world countries or something.
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
Hey, Honey, I know the FBI is listening in right now, but I'm stuck in the middle of a steganographic stampede! There are stegonographers everywhere!
fifth sigma, inc.
I've learned this trick works well with both annoying ex-girlfriends and customers...
At the end of a long conversation walk into your bathroom and flush the toilet. Keep the phone about five feet away from the toilet so that it's audible but not blatant. Do that everytime you end your conversation with the person.
Eventually they stop calling.
Congratulations. You have no sense of humour.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
You can always tell the "foreigners," by the honking of their horns. And the hilarious looks on their faces when they get passed on the right side (which is considered normal driving behavior around here)...
My wife doesn't understand my desire to have sex with other women either, no matter how often I communicate it to her!
Do that have one that keeps saying in a sultry voice, "Honey, please come back to bed, we weren't finished yet!"? I'd want to use that when my ex calls...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Union Federal rules!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
You are walking through the hotel hallway hooker on one arm.
the wife calls
you add reverb to voice, start datacenter noise
"whirrrrrrrrrrr"
"oh yeah, i'm just here walking through our datacenter warehouse "
"uh huh, yeah. looks like i'm going to be a little late..."
then suddenly
"CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK whirrrrrrrrrrrrr
CLICK CLIK whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
"Oh sweet jesus! I gotta go!"
END CARRIER
"now where were we, baby"
Ring!!! [Takes phone out] Ring!!! [Clicks little green phone] Hello, please hold for one second [Silence] [Traffic noises abruptly begin] Hi, sorry, I can't talk long, I'm stuck in traffic right now. [Traffic noises abruptly stop] Click
Great Scott and a Lesser Mick! You may be onto something there!
Nothing! This is a tool to help you communicate a lie, in case she understands too much of the truth.
I really must protest. This new product from Simedia aims to give circuses everywhere a black eye. This product (if you can call it that) works with the popular Nokia 7650 and 3650 series of phones to provide callers with fake background noise. Now, this alone does not bother me. If people what to lie about where they are, thats up to them. What bothers me is the company is encouraging people to pretend that they are caught at a circus parade. Don't circuses get blaimed for enough traffic messes?
Oh, wait. I could use this. Every one would think I was at the show when I called. Maybe it's not such a bad idea...
SounderCover is available for immediate purchase for the price of 14.95 and a demo version is available for download.
"'Hi honey, I'm going to be late -- I'm stuck in the middle of a circus parade...Bye! "
"Not according to the GPS receiver in your phone you're not."
Well, any idiot with a Washington or Idaho plate doing 55 in the left lane is certainly going to get passed on the right. And yes, it is always the bozo with WA or ID plates. The guy with the CA plate is doing 90 and passing people on the shoulder...
Was the exact same idea.
;)
In the heyday of the Video Arcade, "The Excuse Booth" was one of the coin-op manufacturer's attempts to bring this to the public.
It was a sealed closet-like booth (similar to the 4-for a dollar foto booths), soundproofed with carpeting on the inside, a seat board, and a payphone. There was also a control panel and coin acceptor for the background sound.
The backgrounds were provided by a bank of 8-Track type cartridges (actually they were the professional recording/radio studio type ones), and were fed through a reasonably high fidelity audio system to speakers in the booth. There were 12 or 16 or so backgrounds, Office, Jail, Streetcorner, Bar, Party, etc. A dollar would get you 5 minutes or so of background sound.
I used to work for one of the major Video Arcade manufacturers in a former life, and we got one in to evaluate. I can't remember who made it exactly, but we analyzed all the competition's stuff anyway. After that, it sat around the warehouse for a long time and just got used by various engineers for smoking joints in
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
At a previous job, before I was laid off (our parent company was shutting down all of our branch offices), I was partially responsible for a couple of our sites and our data center. I had absolutely no accountability (my boss was on the other side of the country) during the last two or three weeks before my layoff date, so one day I decided to take a day off and stay home without letting anyone know just to see if I could get away with it.
Surprise, someone called me up on my cell phone from one of the branch sites with an issue. Not intentionally, because I was sitting right next to my computer (in which the case fans were very loud), he just assumed I was working away in the datacenter and I just ended up playing along with it!
Save time now so you can waste it later
Yusen, a subscription music service, had so many free channels that a while ago they had two channels for this purpose: one that played sounds of a busy Tokyo train station, and another that played the sounds of an office. Turn on Yusen loud enough at your mistress' home, call your wife, and your have your proverbial cover.
Then again, Yusen also had a channel of someone counting sheep. (I'm not making this up.) I think they got up to about 18,000 before the recording looped.
"But always she's the spectre of uncertainty I first endured, then faded, then embraced..."
1. record some ambient noise, put it on KaZaA 2. join RIAA, SCO 3. ??? 4. Profit !!!
to drown out the screams of the hot chick you are humping when the wife calls?
while sco {
wget -O
}