People paying attention to their texting-device sometimes step off curbs or crash into walls unexpectedly while walking. This device simply takes a live image from the cell phone's camera, and makes it the background image moving behind the text. Then you'll see that open manhole before you step.
-- lurch, Nov 20 2007

It's here... http://lifehacker.c...etting-hit-by-a-car
[Jinbish, Jul 29 2009]

(?) Legislation instead? http://technolog.ms...texting-and-walking
Dammit, I *tried* to keep this from happening! [lurch, Jan 26 2011]

(?) It's gone viral now. http://www.youtube....watch?v=mg11glsBW4Y
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 27 2011]

Genius. [+]
-- jtp, Nov 20 2007


Good idea.
-- MisterQED, Nov 20 2007


The fact that I don't understand _texting_ from a _telephone_ with a perfectly good speaker and microphone setup does not make this a bad idea.

Apparently some people really would rather thumb their way through elaborate typing mechanisms using six buttons in esoteric combinations, taking twelve and a half minutes to form a three-word message than just call and say it. So, OK.
-- globaltourniquet, Nov 20 2007


Texting is good for private conversations. Good for loud places too, where you can't hear. But most of the time I want to slap the phone out of peoples hands. With the "chocolate" slide phone, you can smack the top mid text and it will close and erase the text. Hah.
-- rascalraidex, Nov 20 2007


/People paying attention to their texting-device sometimes step off curbs or crash into walls unexpectedly while walking. //

I'd hate for this to be stopped before I get a chance to witness it.
-- phundug, Nov 20 2007


Well, then, [phundug], maybe you should look up ;)
-- lurch, Nov 21 2007


WTF, THIS IS FUBAR, TTY(a)L
-- evilpenguin, Nov 21 2007


//We might even have to bring back the console window.//

Bring back? It never left! I use it every day.

//People paying attention to their texting-device sometimes step off curbs or crash into walls unexpectedly while walking. //

And they deserve it. "lk ware u goin m8"
-- webfishrune, Nov 23 2007


This kind of phone needs a proximity sensor (vibration?) for when you hold it too close to your face.
-- reensure, Nov 27 2007



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