Thank you, Nokia.
Oh, I dunno. It’d offer a very convenient way for me to say “BITE ME, DICKWAD” to the guy tailgating me.
Just what we need. More drive-bys.
How about “your turn signal is on”? Followed closely by “jackass” of course.
It’ll be more likely, “Shoot me in the head and take my expensive cell phone, jackass.”
Actually, it only displays 15 characters, so it would have to be: “BITE ME, DICKWA”
I suppose this is ok in Boston.
It seems that, as a service to humanity, Rickard Gunée has taken his webpage on mechanical scanning LED implementations down, realizing that once cellphone manufacturers get wind of the possibilities, bus travel and public waiting rooms will quickly become completely unbearable.
You’ll long for the days when cellphone Tetris only intruded on your ears, after you see drooling morons frenetically air-wanking to create an ephemeral 17" vertical screen for their public gaming amusement.
Of course, Rickard’s projects are archived in Google’s cache, so in all likelihood his noble gesture will be for naught.
We’re doomed. Doomed!
All I want is a damned phone - you dial, you talk, you hang up. A phone book feature and voice mail are nice, too. I do NOT want a traveling video arcade, nose picker, or novel way to annoy those around me.
Not only that, I want a rugged phone. Something that can be knocked off a table, sat on, sneezed on, chewed by a parrot, and keep going. I dropped my cellphone out of an airplane a couple weeks ago and it was still working after hitting the pavement - THAT’s what I want. (That’s not as impressive as it sounds - the airplane was on the ground at the time) These new-fangled pieces of glittery crap with the color screens and the full symphonic sound card - how durable?
I dread having to replace my current cellphone… even that is over gadgeted for my needs but, sadly, it’s showing some wear and the day is coming when I will have no choice but to replace it.
Actually, I think it would be great. You could at least flash for help if you are in an area where you cannot get a signal. It would be safer than standing in the road and waving your arms.
And I love the idea of informing the Moron Mike behind me that me doesn’t know me well enough to climb up my rectum with his automobile. :wally
Of course, you couldn’t inform the MM in front of you of his failings unless you could get the letters reversed so it would read correctly in the rear view mirror. :rolleyes:
But I agree this sounds great on paper but in practice will be a headache, I am sure. :smack:
How about SHOW YOUR BOOBS when driving next to hot chicks?
It worked (about one out of 20 times, so he says) for my friend in college who carried a cardboard sign with a similar phrase.
Someone explain to me first, what the hell this technology is, and second, how it works. This makes no sense to me.
Think of how a computer displays digits using pixels. Let’s assume you have an 8x8 matrix. By turning on pixels within that 8 x 8 matrix, you can display a large number of characters. Now, assume you only have a column of LEDs, stacked 8 high (and 1 across). You can sequentially flash the LEDs to display each column in your 8 x 8 matrix. If you do this while moving the LED display, persistance of vision will generate the illusion that you are looking at an actualy 8x8 display.
I think I can confidently predict that the most common English phrase used on the Nokia device will start with “F” and end with “You”.
K, makes more sense now, thanks. Damn you must have to move the thing pretty fast though.
I bet you’re right.
The Exploratorium in San Francisco used to have one of these things posted high up on a wall near the entrance (they still might, I haven’t been there in years), so as you moved around the building, every now and then you’d catch some message or picture out of the corner of your eyes. It was kinda unnerving.
Nokia: Making Teachers’ Lives Worse, Every Day!
Am I correct in thinking that these messages would not be able to be picked up by television cameras? Given the number of frames-per-second a TV camera picks up, I’m thinking that these messages would be choppy, meaningless blobs.
I’m just curious because if these could be broadcast intact, well, producers of live sporting events would have a major headache added to their lives.
Great, all we need is a bunch of losers sitting behid homeplate waving their phones. The fact that no one will clearly see what the hell they’re waving won’t stop them.
Lovely.
And would it be too much to ask to have a phone that will sound like a phone when it rings? I don’t want it to play music or beep playfully or sing or dance, I just want it to ring, like a phone.
I just watched a report the other day on cell phone cameras and a practice called either “up-skirting” or “down-blousing”.
The cell phone. A love/hate relationship.
Your wish is my command.
