October 8, 2008
Something We Are All Guilty Of.
Picture the scene - it’s Tuesday night, you’ve had copious amounts of booze at Asoka, you’ve somehow made it home and staggered over to your bed. The bed feels spacious and you feel all alone.
The thought of texting or phoning your ex-bird, best girl friend or even your third cousin, and inviting them over for casual drunken sex lasting for approximately 4 minutes, suddenly seems like a good idea.
Well, if you made a call or sms, you would probably be screwed right now (not literally, unless your third cousin was into that sort of thing). If however, you were planning on sending an EMAIL, you may just be in luck. The smart guys at Google have come up with a clever little system called Mail Goggles, which effectively questions your motives and ability and thus prevents you from sending inappropriate emails in the early hours of the morning.
Once you hit the “Send” button, you are first required to answer a series of questions that any sober person would have no problem with.
Can't figure out what 37 + 19 is? You're pissed, mate. Try getting some sleep instead.
It’s a clever little idea that would be REALLY useful if it could be transferred over to cellphones, as most drunk people I know tend not to give a f**k about Gmail when they want to say dirty things to someone.
Still, good effort by the guys at Google. Jesus Hernandez, first the G1 phone and now this, what will they think of next?
You can read more about Mail Goggles over here.
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Brilliant! What will they think of next?
Clever, but only really useful if it could be implemented on cellphones. Sure it can be done though.
@Kenzo - I know, that’s exactly what I said. In fact… yes, that’s EXACTLY what I said. Did you just copy and paste?
@Ross - Agreed, I’m sure it can’t be that hard though. There’s a job for one of those geeky iPhone developers.
I’m sure it’ll be easier to get something like that onto the G1 than the iPhone.
What with all the adult-themed webcomic apps and other politically incorrect stuff that’s been kicked off the Jesus Phone,, I’m sure that nobody in Cupertino is likely to admit that users of their phones ever get drunk…
@Arno - Don’t know much about them iPhones and G1 phones so we will just take your word for it.