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Adding Background Noise To Your Phone Call

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the science-finally-pays-off dept.

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*'"

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  1. No wonder... by penultimatepost · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Subject line should have been: No wonder... ARGGHHHHHH Must preview Must preview must preview must preview must preview must preview must preview

  2. Ideas for Slashdot? by maliabu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if i can add a background description of what i'm doing together with my post.

    eg:
    geez! M$ sucks
    [..maliabu is coding a project...]

  3. Re:I'll buy the one by catbutt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That should be modded as insightful not funny. If I was the company I'd think that feature would be used far more useful than their fake sounding little recordings. (except instead of just maipulating the sound, why not actually have it could lose the connection?)

  4. Re:Anyone stupid enough to use their "traffic jam" by pclminion · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Now that I know that passing on the right is expected behavior, I will stay in the right hand lane and cut 10-20% off my travel time.

    It's considered normal by the drivers, but in my experience the Washington state troopers will ticket you if they catch you doing it. Once you are significantly south of Tacoma it's fairly safe to open it up the rest of the way to Portland.

    Once you hit Oregon, though, the cops will practically smoke a joint with you as long as you're not waving a gun around or something like that... (STATE cops, don't try any funny stuff with Portland city cops :-) )