For Xmas 2006
December 18 2005, 11:12 am | | 1 Comment
From Applied Minds in the US – Babble. A hardback-sized device that “captures the user’s voice, splices it into random bits then spits out the scrambled speech in multiple streams through a nearby speaker. The result sounds like low-level party chatter where all the guests are one person”. Babble renders the most sensitive or naughty conversations untelligible to office eavesdroppers and blog posters – no more locking yourself in the small meeting room to talk to Patsy. Available by mail order from CAANZ late next year.
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Apart from the fact that this device is ‘paperback book sized’, I know some planners that “captures the user’s voice, splices it into random bits then spits out the scrambled speech in multiple streams through a nearby speaker. The result sounds like low-level party chatter where all the guests are one person”. The trouble is, that’s what the client sometimes hears as well!