Drinking and Dialling

Collie D

Just a thought that occurred to me because my better half is on a hen's weekend and I know I'll get a call about 4am and I'll be grumpy and she'll be drunk thinking I'm an arsehole for not being pleasant about getting a call at that time. We've all decided that it's a good oidea to start ringing or texting people at ungodly hours when we're locked. I propose a phone with a built-in breathalyser, think of the embarrassment it would save, come on Nokia, get the finger out and I have patented this so I'll sell the idea for €10 million.

emeraldstar

ah yes but what if you were trying to ring home for a lift at that time or ring a taxi? see you haven't really thought this through fully have you?
investigate all avenues!!!!

Collie D

emeraldstar wrote:

ah yes but what if you were trying to ring home for a lift at that time or ring a taxi? see you haven't really thought this through fully have you?
investigate all avenues!!!!

Thanks a million, Motorola just dropped their bid

emeraldstar

Collie D wrote:

Thanks a million, Motorola just dropped their bid

aw shucks....try Siemens, they might go for it. They could use some ideas to jazz up their phones a bit!!

Baggly

Just have the phone 'transform' into an autonomous car.....DUH!!!!

Ruu_Old

Here is your answer.

Collie D

emeraldstar wrote:

aw shucks....try Siemens, they might go for it. They could use some ideas to jazz up their phones a bit!!

Quite frankly I would not like my invention being ridiculed by using the words blowing and Siemens in the same sentence

emeraldstar

ridiculed?? but only by those with that sort of filthy mind (ahem *you* apparently)...good honest upstanding decent folk (one of which i would consider myself) would never make that sort of unsavoury connection

antSionnach

I would pay goof money for one of those.

I usually ring the house telephone . And at 3am, its usually only the Ma who will answer it. Apparently I started rambling on about some young wan once, eventually she hung up on me. Drunk people should be apprehended and put in safety boxes imho.

dogg_r_69

I heard on the radio one day some one of the companies have it done already. Can't remember but i think it was Siemens

wyndham

Breathalyser phone stops drinkers making embarrassing calls
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
[In this article, the breathalyser phone has been wrongly identified as a Samsung. It is, in fact, made by LG Electronics]
THE first mobile phone aimed at drinkers is about to go on sale in Britain, complete with a breathalyser that tests users’ fitness to drive and a “sobriety lock-out” to stop drunken late-night phone calls.

The Samsung LP4100 is targeted at hard-living, hard-drinking young people, promising to help them avoid drink-driving and drunk dialling.

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Click here to find out more!
If the user has exceeded the drink-drive limit when blowing into the phone, it gives a warning and displays an animation of a car swerving on a road and crashing into traffic cones, a hint that they should take a taxi.

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book such as former girlfriends or boyfriends, bosses, parents and kebab houses.

Samsung believes that the phone, which has a shape similar to a sports car, will find a market among young clubbers, stopping their slurred speech before they leave a regrettable voicemail message, let alone try to climb behind the wheel.

Samsung is based in South Korea, where high-tech gadgets are close to a national obsession. The company has already produced a phone that can give a read-out of the user’s levels of body fat, and another with a motion sensor that can improve golf swings.

The breathalyser device is proving one of its biggest hits with about 200,000 of them sold in South Korea. It now believes there are also large markets in Europe and America, even though the basic cost of the phone is more than £200.

Britain is seen as one of Samsung’s largest potential markets because of the popularity of binge drinking and gadget-packed mobile phones with young people. About 85% of Britons have a mobile.

A recent survey commissioned by Nokia, the phone maker, suggested that people liked having many devices fitted into their mobiles. About 44% already use their phone as their main camera and about a third regularly browse the internet on their phone.

Mobiles are also taking over from more mundane devices, with 72% of the 5,000 people questioned using their phone as an alarm clock and 73% using it as a watch.

Samsung has equipped its new phone with an array of gadgets, including a remote control for televisions, DVD players and karaoke machines.

Some might question the judgment of the people who need to use such a phone. A Korean student who bought the device said recently: “You breathe into the phone and it’ll let you know how intoxicated you are. It sounds simple but I was testing one after drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s (whiskey) when I vomited all over the phone.”

Before going on sale in Britain, the phone would be adjusted so that it was triggered by the legal limit for drink-driving in this country, which is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, roughly equivalent to two pints of beer for a man.

# A do-it-yourself breathalyser has been installed in a Leeds car park as part of a trial to see if such devices can cut the number of people who drink and drive.

The Alcolizer measures blood-alcohol concentration when drivers blow into a straw and then tells them whether they are safe to drive.

sterculelum

wyndham wrote:

Breathalyser phone stops drinkers making embarrassing calls
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
[In this article, the breathalyser phone has been wrongly identified as a Samsung. It is, in fact, made by LG Electronics]
THE first mobile phone aimed at drinkers is about to go on sale in Britain, complete with a breathalyser that tests users’ fitness to drive and a “sobriety lock-out” to stop drunken late-night phone calls.

The Samsung LP4100 is targeted at hard-living, hard-drinking young people, promising to help them avoid drink-driving and drunk dialling.

*
Click here to find out more!
If the user has exceeded the drink-drive limit when blowing into the phone, it gives a warning and displays an animation of a car swerving on a road and crashing into traffic cones, a hint that they should take a taxi.

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book such as former girlfriends or boyfriends, bosses, parents and kebab houses.

Samsung believes that the phone, which has a shape similar to a sports car, will find a market among young clubbers, stopping their slurred speech before they leave a regrettable voicemail message, let alone try to climb behind the wheel.

Samsung is based in South Korea, where high-tech gadgets are close to a national obsession. The company has already produced a phone that can give a read-out of the user’s levels of body fat, and another with a motion sensor that can improve golf swings.

The breathalyser device is proving one of its biggest hits with about 200,000 of them sold in South Korea. It now believes there are also large markets in Europe and America, even though the basic cost of the phone is more than £200.

Britain is seen as one of Samsung’s largest potential markets because of the popularity of binge drinking and gadget-packed mobile phones with young people. About 85% of Britons have a mobile.

A recent survey commissioned by Nokia, the phone maker, suggested that people liked having many devices fitted into their mobiles. About 44% already use their phone as their main camera and about a third regularly browse the internet on their phone.

Mobiles are also taking over from more mundane devices, with 72% of the 5,000 people questioned using their phone as an alarm clock and 73% using it as a watch.

Samsung has equipped its new phone with an array of gadgets, including a remote control for televisions, DVD players and karaoke machines.

Some might question the judgment of the people who need to use such a phone. A Korean student who bought the device said recently: “You breathe into the phone and it’ll let you know how intoxicated you are. It sounds simple but I was testing one after drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s (whiskey) when I vomited all over the phone.”

Before going on sale in Britain, the phone would be adjusted so that it was triggered by the legal limit for drink-driving in this country, which is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, roughly equivalent to two pints of beer for a man.

# A do-it-yourself breathalyser has been installed in a Leeds car park as part of a trial to see if such devices can cut the number of people who drink and drive.

The Alcolizer measures blood-alcohol concentration when drivers blow into a straw and then tells them whether they are safe to drive.

What he said. I was just thinking the exact same thing... it was on Fanning the other day. Blocks you before you get the chance. Sounds good, I suppose, until there's an emergency or something...

HDX

who would have thought?

HDX

wyndham wrote:

Breathalyser phone stops drinkers making embarrassing calls
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor
[In this article, the breathalyser phone has been wrongly identified as a Samsung. It is, in fact, made by LG Electronics]
THE first mobile phone aimed at drinkers is about to go on sale in Britain, complete with a breathalyser that tests users’ fitness to drive and a “sobriety lock-out” to stop drunken late-night phone calls.

The Samsung LP4100 is targeted at hard-living, hard-drinking young people, promising to help them avoid drink-driving and drunk dialling.

*
Click here to find out more!
If the user has exceeded the drink-drive limit when blowing into the phone, it gives a warning and displays an animation of a car swerving on a road and crashing into traffic cones, a hint that they should take a taxi.

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book such as former girlfriends or boyfriends, bosses, parents and kebab houses.

Samsung believes that the phone, which has a shape similar to a sports car, will find a market among young clubbers, stopping their slurred speech before they leave a regrettable voicemail message, let alone try to climb behind the wheel.

Samsung is based in South Korea, where high-tech gadgets are close to a national obsession. The company has already produced a phone that can give a read-out of the user’s levels of body fat, and another with a motion sensor that can improve golf swings.

The breathalyser device is proving one of its biggest hits with about 200,000 of them sold in South Korea. It now believes there are also large markets in Europe and America, even though the basic cost of the phone is more than £200.

Britain is seen as one of Samsung’s largest potential markets because of the popularity of binge drinking and gadget-packed mobile phones with young people. About 85% of Britons have a mobile.

A recent survey commissioned by Nokia, the phone maker, suggested that people liked having many devices fitted into their mobiles. About 44% already use their phone as their main camera and about a third regularly browse the internet on their phone.

Mobiles are also taking over from more mundane devices, with 72% of the 5,000 people questioned using their phone as an alarm clock and 73% using it as a watch.

Samsung has equipped its new phone with an array of gadgets, including a remote control for televisions, DVD players and karaoke machines.

Some might question the judgment of the people who need to use such a phone. A Korean student who bought the device said recently: “You breathe into the phone and it’ll let you know how intoxicated you are. It sounds simple but I was testing one after drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s (whiskey) when I vomited all over the phone.”

Before going on sale in Britain, the phone would be adjusted so that it was triggered by the legal limit for drink-driving in this country, which is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, roughly equivalent to two pints of beer for a man.

# A do-it-yourself breathalyser has been installed in a Leeds car park as part of a trial to see if such devices can cut the number of people who drink and drive.

The Alcolizer measures blood-alcohol concentration when drivers blow into a straw and then tells them whether they are safe to drive.

you never know though the state some people get in...

RandomOne

wyndham wrote:

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book such as former girlfriends or boyfriends, bosses, parents and kebab houses.

Collie D

I am absolutely devastated by that, there goes the only decent idea I have ever had, I'm going to ring someone to tell them how upset I am about all this

seamus

This isn't something which only started with mobile phones. The only difference is that before mobiles people were likely to ring an ex's house phone and end up speaking drunkenly to an irate mother or father. They also had the walk home to reconsider if calling would be a good idea.

bluto63

Collie D wrote:

Just a thought that occurred to me because my better half is on a hen's weekend and I know I'll get a call about 4am and I'll be grumpy and she'll be drunk thinking I'm an arsehole for not being pleasant about getting a call at that time. We've all decided that it's a good oidea to start ringing or texting people at ungodly hours when we're locked. I propose a phone with a built-in breathalyser, think of the embarrassment it would save, come on Nokia, get the finger out and I have patented this so I'll sell the idea for €10 million.

Well yea, but now you showed us that we also need a keyboard with the same function;)

Collie D

seamus wrote:

This isn't something which only started with mobile phones. The only difference is that before mobiles people were likely to ring an ex's house phone and end up speaking drunkenly to an irate mother or father. They also had the walk home to reconsider if calling would be a good idea.

Yeah but you were usually too pissed to remember the number

dermot_sheehan

I know this may seem like a simplistic solution to the problem, but a cheap and easy way to not receive drunk phonecalls at all hours of the morning:
Turn off phone

I'm gona have to look into patenting this.

InFront

Collie D wrote:

I am absolutely devastated by that, there goes the only decent idea I have ever had, I'm going to ring someone to tell them how upset I am about all this

My Dad is still upset about electronics company ripping off his idea of the DVD - Or video CD as he saw it...

Maybe they will give you 50% if you ask nicely.

Collie D

Yeah but the idea behhind my phone is to stop people ie me from making the call

Tha Gopher

A single drunken phone call caused me to break up with the one and only bird I ever truly 100% cared about. But fcuk it, on reflection, yeah I liked her personality but it was her absoloutely 0.1% top gade BEAUTIFUL looks I was in love with. Lookin back, she was into the Foos (she thinks Dave fcuking Grohl is sex on legs :eek: ), Nirvava, The Chillis, The Darkness, Green Day, NERD (she also thinks that peanut head jive ass mediocre talented Pharell is only 2nd to that ugly git Grohl in the id lash him stakes)

Anyway, enough waffle.Thankfully I havent rang a bird under the influence in over 2 years after learnin my lesson the hard way. Mind you, one of my mates deliberatelly gets drunk before ringing birds to waffle along.

Needless to say, we are a very discussed social group whos depression is only lifted through alcoholism and addictions to cocaine and gambling (me I survive thru my depressing work hours with my drinkng. Unfortunately, for at least 4 of the lads its a mix of drink, coke and betting).

Black Swan

What? No drunken phone calls at 4AM? And spoil all the fun?:p

DublinWriter

dogg_r_69 wrote:

I heard on the radio one day some one of the companies have it done already. Can't remember but i think it was Siemens

Heard the same report too. Apparently it's one of the fastest selling phones in South Korea.

Terry

missed calls:
086******* 28/7/2006 3.57
086******* 29/7/2006 2.09
087******* 30/7/2006 7.37

the first one woke me.
i put the phone on silent each night after that.

Tha Gopher

I do keep the phone on loud all night, never know who might need a chat or whats happenin. Mind you its fairly pointless, anytime someone calls when Im half asleep I dont even remember next day whether i really talked to them or was it a dream.

Dampsquid

Was awoken last night at 4am by a drunk girl looking for a trisha. All i heard, "hello Trisha, hello Trisha" I said ah for f*ck sake and hung up.

OFDM

LOTP wrote:

Just have the phone 'transform' into an autonomous car.....DUH!!!!

That just bring's up the whole "mass-shifting" problem that plagued Soundwave.

BossArky

A friend of mine rang me the other day asking why I had left a voice message of myself the night before roaring Guns and Roses "Night-train" down the phone to him at 4am. Haha

Was locked on the way home from a Guns and Roses concert at Wembly.

Gillo

I went through a phase of making those calls a few years ago. The worst was one night at the christmas party when my boss grabbed the phone from me and told the girl at the other end (luckily it had gone to voice mail) to "f*&k off and stop calling me, this was Paul's boss and he would look after me".

neither of us remembered the call until I got an angry text message the following day.

cournioni

I've had two or three, all between 5 and 8am... I wasn't pissed off though... They were hot.

The_B_Man

haha i was kinda considerin callin a few girls i know. been drinkin all day, tho its more out of boredom coz im here in work bored out of me skull wit nothin to do.

/EDIT: haha i got one of me regulars txtin me there coz shes drunk! haha

Lust4Life

One of my Hubby's workmates went to a wedding a few weeks ago and had far too much drink.
Phoned a girl he fancies and told her exactly what he would like to do to her if he got the chance.
Woke up the next day and had only a vague recollection of the call. Then she called HIM back!
Long story short, he's been living a very STEAMY past few weeks!
So it's not ALL Bad!

L4L

Victor

A friend did it years ago from a payphone. Her mother answered. :eek:

Dampsquid wrote:

Was awoken last night at 4am by a drunk girl looking for a trisha. All i heard, "hello Trisha, hello Trisha" I said ah for f*ck sake and hung up.

Thats a great opportunity for a wind-up - "I'm sorry she's with me mate ....".

spacecoyote

You should all check the music industries version of Ron Jeremy - Har Mar Superstar's song DUI (Dialling Under the Influence), cheesy brilliance on this very topic