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My first post to a long-time favourite site, the Halfbakery: Build a breathalizer into the mic section of a cell-phone, and have it measure the alcohol content of your breath as you start to speak, or breathe into it while waiting to be connected. If it detects mild levels of intoxication, it mutes the mic for a second and plays a pre-recorded message to the recipient of your call to the effect of: “I’m sorry, but the caller you are talking to is inebriated. Please disregard anything they may say.” If it detects extreme levels of intoxication, it disconnects you, dials a taxi firm, retrieves your location from a GPS component, relates it to a street via the Google Maps API, then text-to-speeches that info into a pre-recorded message to the effect of: “I would like a taxi from [place name] to [home address]… yes, it’s [surname]“ So far four people have found the idea croissant-worthy, while two have inexplicably deigned to fishbone it. Weak. | ||
Rob: I was under the impression that this had already been invented (recently)!
Timmargh: Hahaha. Superb.
The_B: And after actually following the link within the engadget blog, it appears not to actually link to the article so this one might be better:
http://abcnews.go.co... ...id=2125709 Apparently it's LG's LP4100 Jason L: It's not quite your idea, in that it locks out specified numbers instead of giving vocal warning and won't call a cab, but on the other hand it does have a bonus universal remote control. Here are two of many Google results for "cell phone breathalyzer".
http://news.com.com/... ...88879.html
Jason L: ...so why did you ask for links? :)
SenatorPalpatine: http://arstechnica.c... ...gmail.html
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