New cellphone that helps prevent drunk driving...

[seizer]

New cell phone to prevent drunk dialing

June 28, 2006 6:14 AM PDT

There just might be no other gadget that has transformed the party scene quite as much as the cell phone. Address books and text-messaging can beef up the attendance of a slow night within minutes. Camera and video features have proven to quite a few of us that no one is safe from having their embarrassing acts--from women dancing on tables to men being caught with cosmopolitans or Smirnoff Ices in hand--captured on digital video.

But the Korean cell phone manufacturer LG Electronics, according to ABC News, has gone a step further with the party gimmicks. LG's LP4100 brand, to be released in the U.S. later this year, not only takes pictures of your friends' bar tricks, it can also ward off two of a wild Saturday night's most undesirable consequences--drunk dialing and DUIs.

The LP4100 has a built-in breath analyzer that, when blown into by an intoxicated partier, gives a warning and displays a nifty little animation of a car swerving on a road and crashing into traffic cones. (Which should be easy for even the tipsy mind to understand.)

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book--bosses, moms, exes, pizzerias--if the breath analyzer records a blood-alcohol concentration over 0.08.

It's already a hit in Korea, where more than 200,000 of LG's Breathalyzer-type phones have been sold.

Posted by Caroline McCarthy


http://news.com.com/2061-10801_3-608...8879&subj=news

 

[seizer]

Now cops can fuck you over with your own gadgets when you get pulled over.

"Kid, can you please blow into your cellphone"

Kid says, "but why officer?"

"i dunno,practice? because i fucking said so, now do it!"

blows*

cops says, "wow, that car is running into quite few pilons on that screen there...apparently you're over the limit..."

cop
*zip*

"...but speaking of pilons and crossing your limits....im gonna have to ask you to step out of your car...son"

fuck dui's, make sure the cop keeps his distance once he's about to pat you down.

 

[mrplunkey]

The phone can also be programmed to block selected numbers in the address book--bosses, moms, exes, pizzerias--if the breath analyzer records a blood-alcohol concentration over 0.08.

No more drunk-calling your ex-gf on a saturday night!

 

[msam76]

So how is that safe? You are driving, you dial a number, then you look at your cell phone and watch this stupid little show (funny when drunk I bet) and crash your car because you were looking at your cell phone, not the road. Nice.

 

[seizer]

So how is that safe? You are driving, you dial a number, then you look at your cell phone and watch this stupid little show (funny when drunk I bet) and crash your car because you were looking at your cell phone, not the road. Nice.

Maybe God willed LG to manufacture these phones to cleanse the earth of infidels.

 

[chewyxrage]

that's fuckin hilarious.

a dude I know bought a little portable one to bring to parties, just to see what people are at.

thing is you have to stop drinking for an hour or a half hour, can't remember which, before it's accurate. who wants to stop drinking for that long at a party?

 

[Cutiebaby]

I dont think that is a good idea!

 

[rudeboyja]

I advocate a drunk driving license. The MVA should have a test after you have had 10 or 12 drinks and if you pass then you have the right to drive at about .18

 

[BradG]

a sad commentary on our world.

 

[Phaded]

i seriously thought about inventing that..