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Sony's television division have kicked Skype's attempt to make a wall-o-vision telephone system. |
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// And milk and fresh orange juice delivered to one's doorstep...and steam trains...and, oh nostalgia thou art my lovely companion this late summer night of moths, candle- flames, and gentle mist... // |
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be ... |
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This could be implemented quickly and cheaply using tablets and wifi. |
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Fix the tablets to the walls in appropriate positions. |
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Design an appropriate UI app that handles audio, speech recognition, and other functions. |
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Use the wifi to link the tablets to a central telecoms hub. |
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missing a connection to (gasp) a phone jack, trekkie. |
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How quaint. Does your design record voicemail on an Edison wax cylinder ? |
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With sufficient polished brass, varnished mahogany, ceramic insulators and a big Bakelite-handled We-Belong-Dead knife switch, it might be an attractive bit of Steampunkery, but as a real-world system a physical phone line, for anything other than high speed data, is somewhat passé ... |
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Maybe a wall directional speaker/microphone which operates when standing in front. Voice dial of course. |
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I saw a rubber dink with a suction cup on it. Pretty
sure everything is wall mountable now. |
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Office lucent landline, duct tape. |
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Or, cut a piece of wallboard out of the wall, mount
phone to that horizontally, and place on desk. |
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