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It seems that cordless phones have the problem of staying where you leave them, consequently never actually being where you are.
To date, solutions have typically centered around simply wearing them -- a headset perhaps, or a cellphone/cordless house relay, or having them be ubiquitous (i.e. House,
Answer The Phone)
These approaches, however, have severe limitations -- you get home, you change, and therefore carying a phone on a belt is a pain, taking every call on house-wide speaker is impractical if not dangerous, etc.
In this proposal, a base uses wheels or other suitable types of transport (with a portable battery, it can double as a charger, and as a nice speakerphone).
The base can home in on the voice command and navigate the room Roomba style, and bring the phone. Once the phone is picked up, the base simply follows it around, staying at a respectful distance, so that when the conversation is over, you can simply put the phone in its charge slot.
(?) Baked for ipods, it seems
http://www.cnn.com/...robot.ap/index.html
[theircompetitor, Sep 01 2006]
Follow Robots
http://www.popsci.c...008-08/follow-robot
[theircompetitor, Aug 28 2008]
Sparki
http://blog.makezin...new-favorite-robot/
Looks like a real platform, cool [theircompetitor, May 05 2013]
Phone Home
similar idea [pashute, Oct 31 2013]
Budgee -- a Kickstarter project for a robot that follows you around
http://www.kickstar...t-carries-your-stuf
[theircompetitor, Jan 21 2014]
[link]
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I like the idea, but I'm a little confused, when it's following you around you're on speaker phone, yeah? Would it still follow you around if you were on the hand set? And in that case would it just then be the base / charger for the hand unit? Would it still need to follow you around at that point? |
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The base is following the phone around -- you're using the phone in the usual way. |
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How does the base get charged? |
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well, the base can get charged in the usual "corded" way, but contain a capacitor so that when unplugged it is able to maintain charge in the cordless phone |
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Cordless telephone base relay race. |
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"It's for Katy. Go on phone, find her." [+] |
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"What's that, Lassiephone? Timmy has a call?" [+] |
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Well, just attach it to yourself, with a cord. |
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All your base are belong to us. |
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Brewing today - the phone is in the apron pocket. Gotta go, about to siphon the eighth gallon into a seven gallon container. |
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Ahh, the Church of Transcendental Inebriation gets another follower. |
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