What birthday present to offer your sibling "who has it all"?
Your mother's voice patched in his/her car navigation system.
Costs nothing to make, just take your parents out for a drive and let your mother read the directions from a map. Record the conversations from the back seat and choose the most hilarious phrases. Next you need cooperation from your sibling's partner for a cover to get access to the car navigation system software unnoticed.
When you give the present you just hand over an envelope with a destination which is difficult to find. Make sure to bring a camcorder when you all 'go get the present'. It is not the destination that counts, it is what happens along the way... (The DVD of that ride is a present for your mom's birthday).
I look forward to the comments!-- rrr, Oct 16 2006 RElated video on YouTube http://www.youtube....ch?v=vhSA740F6HI&NRArtificial voice? for GPS [csea, Oct 18 2006] Mr T, Burt Reynolds, and soon, YOUR mum! http://blog.scifi.c...r_t_burt_reyno.html [zen_tom, Oct 19 2006] Navtones.com sells the Tomtom voices http://www.navtones.../viewforum.php?f=1&there is a 'wanted voices' forum called 'Your voice', but nothing about how to make your own custom voice, apparently it needs to be hacked still [rrr, Oct 19 2006] Dynastic Dashboard Display Dynastic_20Dashboard_20DisplaySimilar. [DrBob, Oct 19 2006] "No. Not that way!"-- Jinbish, Oct 16 2006 "You're not going to see her again, are you?"-- land, Oct 17 2006 "Other Left!"-- Galbinus_Caeli, Oct 17 2006 "You call that a stop?"
"Turn that noise down! How can you even think with that noise going? "
" Your cousin Margaret is going to Princeton. You could be going to Princeton if you buckled down and put your mind to it."-- dentworth, Oct 17 2006 Or overdub the voice of a friend in the trunk? [link]-- csea, Oct 18 2006 "So I think I'm going to knock out the back wall and build a greenhouse. Just think how much the grandkids will love it and . . . oh, oh, oh, you were supposed to turn there."-- Twenty Dollar Duck, Oct 18 2006 I want one with the voice of Kitt from "Knightrider". It would keep calling me Michael, and upon arriving at my destination, would play the theme tune.-- jtp, Oct 19 2006 [jtp] inspired - I don't know if it's been done already, but there would certainly be a market for the sculpted tones of William Daniels coming out of your GPS.-- zen_tom, Oct 19 2006 random, halfbakery