This Is How Google Voice Will Ruin Your Relationships [Google]
Long ago, someone wrote about how Google is out to control your dog and marry your wife. I don’t know how right he was about all that, but I certainly know that Google Voice is out to ruin relationships.
You see, reader Pascal wrote us about a recent experience he had with Google Voice’s transcription feature:
I recently set up Google Voice on my wife’s new Nexus One, and today I was leaving work late and left her a voice mail whilst there was some background noise in the rain admittedly.
My message was supposed to be something like ” Hey babe, I’ve just left work, its about 7:15. I’ll see you at home. Bye. “
Pictured above is what his wife saw as a result of a voice transcription mangling. It reads like a dirty confession about Pascal’s upbringing, drinking habits, and age.
Of course I’m exaggerating about something like this ruining a relationship, but it could certainly create some temporary confusion. Especially if you call your girl to tell her about the “trucking stunt” you saw earlier in the day. [Thanks, Pascal!]
Posted: February 24th, 2010
at 5:00am by Rosa Golijan
Topics: Broken, Google Voice, Google voice transcription, VoiceMail, google, telephone, transcription, voicemail transcription
Bang & Olufsen BeoCom 5 landline: all the cool kids have one
We know what you’re thinking: what could be more impressive to your “friends” than an incredibly super sweet landline telephone about 9 years after most people stopped having them? That’s right, a landline. Bang & Olufsen’s BeoCom 5 is destined to take things to the next level with hot functions like “hold” and the ability to store up to 400 contacts. The BeoCom 5 also boasts a rad looking speaker phone if you want to get a whole group convo going like we did back in junior high. Other good news here is that this baby can handle two separate lines — in case one is simply not enough. No word on when the newest BeoCom will be unleashed, or how much it will cost, but we’re going to guess it won’t be cheap.
[Via Acquire Mag]
Filed under: Household
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Posted: October 21st, 2009
at 2:42am by Laura June
Topics: ActualPhone, Bang & Olufsen, BangAndOlufsen, BangOlufsen, Luxury, actual phone, awesome, bando, bang and olufsen, beocom, beocom5, landline, phone, telephone, telephones
