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swipe dialer
swipe the phone number, and the number is dialed | |
Pen-sized scanners already exist. It shouldn't be too hard for these to swipe a regular phone number out of phone book, then using image recognition produce the necessary touch-tone signals to dial the number. Phones should have this built in.
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Don't the Japanese already have this technology, or is that only for bar codes? |
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We've had these for years in England. The
GPO gives them away. |
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