Product: Phone: Signal
red alert phone   (+2)  [vote for, against]
more obvious than a caller ID box

program calls from select numbers to turn on color-coded lights on your telephone, allowing you to know from across the room if you want to interrupt what you're up to to answer the phone.
-- djymm, Apr 14 2001

This is a pretty good idea - like customisable ring-tones, but customisable screen displays or colour combinations
-- hippo, Apr 14 2021


It brings nostalgia for when the phone was that far away.
-- pertinax, Apr 14 2021


It was ringing for a long time (20 years to the day) before anyone answered.
-- xenzag, Apr 14 2021


That's because it wasn't flashing red.
-- pertinax, Apr 14 2021



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