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February 06, 2005

Buh.

If I were an industrial engineer for an electronics company, I'd design a phone with a built-in clock that worked in conjunction with the phone's ringer.

You could program the phone ahead of time to always turn off the ringer at certain times, and turn it back on again automatically at other times.

For example, if you worked at home and didn't ever want any personal calls between nine and five, you could tell your phone that. It would turn off the ringer at nine, and turn it back on again at five. You'd only have to tell it to do that once. See how that works?

This seems like one of those things that's so amazingly obvious that it has to exist somewhere, but honestly, I've never seen it.

Posted by Spike at February 6, 2005 06:20 PM

Comments

... hey, thats so obvious... that its brilliant! Go pattent that bitch! Or whore yourself out to a software company or something... Or... or dont...

Posted by :P at February 6, 2005 08:17 PM
65.96.209.193

i agree! pattent! sell it on qvc!!!

Posted by Jenn at February 6, 2005 11:22 PM
69.4.137.247

my cell phone does that...just found out.

Posted by scratch chickie at February 6, 2005 11:51 PM
4.10.169.16

Well, crap. There goes my patent.

In other news, someone using a Kinko's in California as a proxy has been trying repeatedly to spam my blog with German domain names, and keeps getting shut down on account of my AWESIM lines of defense. I know it's a person, since machines can't get past the CAPTCHA. So it's just one moron who doesn't comprehend that blacklist + CAPTCHA = HA HA NO.

I am a happy panda.

Posted by spike at February 10, 2005 06:10 AM
66.73.1.183

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