Infidelity, 21st Century Style
Video phones to facilitate lying :
If the technology succeeds, a special setting will allow owners of 3G phones to select the background of their choice before answering a call. The breakthrough might allow a husband who is in a bar to answer the call with a photograph of the office in the background. Alternatively, a wife who wants her husband to believe she is at home would be able to project an image of the living room as a backdrop at the flick of a switch. While the foreground image of the phone owner would be live video, the background would remain static - meaning users would have to be careful not to capture any out-of-date calendars in the background image.
“Honey — that stapler on the desk behind you. Could you please pick it up and hold it in front of you?”
This is great! Now I just need to figure out how to explain why it sounds like there are drunken pool players in the next cubicle.
Posted by johnzo on March 1 2004 18:32
=v= Al Jaffe invented this idea in MAD magazine back in the 1970s.
Posted by Jym on March 3 2004 01:50
I have put this peanut butter together with chocolate, on my blog.
Posted by Gary Farber on March 5 2004 20:17