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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*'"
This is perfect for you guys on a leash out there, however, if my SO wouldn't let me go to the bar after work, she wouldn't be around much longer. What is wrong with simple communication and understanding in relationships today??
//Blessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.
If your that bored, then the cell phone noise is the very least of your problems.
Paging Dr. Ruth
Go ahead, mod me -1 Troll, but isn't it just abusing people's trust to trick them with excuses like "I'm stuck in traffic" when you really have no good excuse.
Ok, so who exactly is the targeted audience for this?
Construction workers that cheat on their wives that tell them they're working on a Saturday?
I really don't get it.
You, my friend, have obviously never been to New York City...
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My brother used to do this all the time while he was an outside salesman with a three state route:
1. roll out of motel bed way late with raging hangover
2. turn on television and tune to a frequency with static
3. turn volume way up and phone work assuring then that you're already on the road to your first appointment
The static sounds just like wind / road noise while driving.
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Be nice to have something kind of the opposite to this for your mobile. You DON'T hear ANY ambient noise. In fact, it'd be nice if your mobile emitted some kind of field like the Babylon 5 "private conversation booths". No more hearing people shout "I'm on the bus". Even better, no more having to shout "I'm on the bus".
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And the one above should be moderated "naive."
If "I was the company," and cattbutt, my highly-paid Director of Product Management & Marketing, walked into my office and suggested adding a feature that emulated and called attention to the frustrating sound of our product failing to work, I'd get all Donald Trump on him (i.e., "you're fired").
Sure it'd be a "feature" to the guy using it, but he'd be bad-mouthing your product to back up his lies! As for the call recipients, they'd also think you suck. Never gonna happen. Pack your desk cattbutt.
Stick to computers sir and leave the marketing to evil, manipulative fucks (like me).
"...all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness..." yada yada
...or at least in one of the old compilation paperback books of MAD gags. It was a piece on telephones of the future, and there was this phone with all these pushbuttons to add various sound effects like "coughing" "office" "dentist" and so on.
Once again, life imitates art.
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