June 27, 2006 -- They were originally designed to simply make phone calls without tying callers to one location. But today's cell phones can do so much more, from snapping digital photos to sending text messages to playing video.
You can add one more feature to the list: a sobriety test.
That's right, cell phones with built-in Breathalyzers are set to hit the U.S. market. So after a night of too much to drink, you can pull out the device to see if you're fit to get behind the wheel.
South Korean manufacturer LG will introduce the LP4100 this year. The company placed several models on the market in that country last year and already has sold more than 200,000 units.
The phones were previewed at the annual Consumer Electronics Show — CES — in Las Vegas earlier this year.
Here's how it works: Users blow into a small spot on the phone, and if they've had too much to drink the phone issues a warning and shows a weaving car hitting traffic cones.
"So they test it and it says don't drive so they leave their car or call the taxi," explained Sung Mee Cho of Seju Engineering Inc.
The company also sells plug-in Breathalyzer adapters for some phones. None of the models tell you exactly how much you may be over or under the legal limit, but it can keep you from making other alcohol-related mistakes.
The LP4100 also allows users to set up the phone so on certain nights and after a certain time they do not call certain people in their phone book. Think ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend.
If you have a blood alcohol level over .08, the phone will not let you dial that person. So it not only promotes sobriety, but chastity — and probably your dignity, as well.
What's to stop some idiot from blowing a 'clear to drive', (which the phone would then document), drinking some more, driving, having an accident and then saying 'Oh, not my fault, my handy LG phone said I was ok to drive.' I'LL SUE YOU LG!!! because it's documented in his phone that he blew legal and there's no way to prove that he had addtl drinks.
Or am I just being a dick?
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Jun-29-2006 03:34
prothoid
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Dallas
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Originally posted by Ygrene
What's to stop some idiot from blowing a 'clear to drive', (which the phone would then document), drinking some more, driving, having an accident and then saying 'Oh, not my fault, my handy LG phone said I was ok to drive.' I'LL SUE YOU LG!!! because it's documented in his phone that he blew legal and there's no way to prove that he had addtl drinks.
Or am I just being a dick?
wouldnt surprise me to hear about that happening. or someone telling the cop they dont need to take a breathalyzer test because their phone said they were OK to drive before they left.
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Jun-29-2006 03:36
fitom tiel
spectacular
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: down in it
Would not work in the States, in South Korea I think it'd be used as merely a precautionary measure without any sort of legal ramification.
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Originally posted by DJFreaq
wtf Ygrene is energy backwards
""So they test it and it says don't drive so they leave their car or call the taxi," explained Sung Mee Cho of Seju Engineering Inc."
ROFL. If only It were that simple....
Jun-29-2006 05:07
prothoid
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Dallas
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Originally posted by plastikE
""So they test it and it says don't drive so they leave their car or call the taxi," explained Sung Mee Cho of Seju Engineering Inc."
ROFL. If only It were that simple....
srsly
edit: some guys i know would end up pissed at the phone for calling them drunk and end up breaking the phone
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Jun-29-2006 05:08
DjConfessions
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Jamesfranco, France
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Originally posted by kofrad
srsly
edit: some guys i know would end up pissed at the phone for calling them drunk and end up breaking the phone
::breathes into cell phone::
Beep Beep
::video of car weaving hitting cones::
cell phone: I'm sorry. u are too drunk to drive!
drunk: No! I'm not drunk! You're drunk!
::throws phone on ground and drives away::
...known from a videotape the two made when they met in March... in Dresdens home, Dresden amputated Gabriels penis and Dresden and Gabriel ate the penis together...Gabriel had insisted that Dresden bite his penis off; this did not work.. Dresden used a knife. When that knife turned out to be too blunt, Dresden used a sharper knife to slice the penis off. Gabriel apparently tried to eat his share of his own penis..but could not because it was too..."chewy". Dresden then sautéed the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, and garlic.
Jun-29-2006 05:20
shaw
RIP
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Intergalactic Mimosa Station
quote:
Originally posted by DjConfessions
::breathes into cell phone::
Beep Beep
::video of car weaving hitting cones::
cell phone: I'm sorry. u are too drunk to drive!
drunk: No! I'm not drunk! You're drunk!
::throws phone on ground and drives away::
Originally posted by DjConfessions
::breathes into cell phone::
Beep Beep
::video of car weaving hitting cones::
cell phone: I'm sorry. u are too drunk to drive!
drunk: No! I'm not drunk! You're drunk!
::throws phone on ground and drives away::
no more drunk dialing?
