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So this bit of technology is in the news again. I know they've been reported on before, but i don't recall seeing it in the New York Times in recent memory, however.
Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
what are your opinions of cel phone jammers? i know that Lady Ada from Make actually constructed one as part of a thesis project, later showcasing it at HOPE. anyone else care to boldy comment on their ownership or use of one? or perhaps speak in hypotheticals about whether you could see yourself ever using one.
heh, my one of personal favorite stories about them pertains to a prominent 2600 individual who has a device like that inside a fake cigarette pack... the user interface is one single switch, which he likes to call he "hello?" button, due to the utterances it generates from many babbling callers in the vicinity when it's pressed.
Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.
“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
Andrew reached into his shirt pocket and pushed a button on a black device the size of a cigarette pack. It sent out a powerful radio signal that cut off the chatterer’s cellphone transmission — and any others in a 30-foot radius.
“She kept talking into her phone for about 30 seconds before she realized there was no one listening on the other end,” he said. His reaction when he first discovered he could wield such power? “Oh, holy moly! Deliverance.”
“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
Andrew reached into his shirt pocket and pushed a button on a black device the size of a cigarette pack. It sent out a powerful radio signal that cut off the chatterer’s cellphone transmission — and any others in a 30-foot radius.
“She kept talking into her phone for about 30 seconds before she realized there was no one listening on the other end,” he said. His reaction when he first discovered he could wield such power? “Oh, holy moly! Deliverance.”
heh, my one of personal favorite stories about them pertains to a prominent 2600 individual who has a device like that inside a fake cigarette pack... the user interface is one single switch, which he likes to call he "hello?" button, due to the utterances it generates from many babbling callers in the vicinity when it's pressed.
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