I miss my old Star Trek theme song ringtone, but my new sounds-like-the-Matrix-calling old-school phone ringing sound is all right. And I stand by my theory that cell phones should ring loud and embarrassing, and we should all feel free to heap verbal abuse on people who are embarrassed thusly, the better to make us default to setting the damn things to silent.
Ahhh, happy memories of working at midnight in the university office, peaceful, not a soul around, when suddenly, from beneath the paper heap on my office-mate's desk, red and green disco lights and a robot announcing PETER BOOTHE YOUR PHONE IS RINGING, PETER BOOTHE YOUR PHONE IS RINGING!
Frickin' terrifying. Well, I guess "cocktail party effect" is accurate after all, because those terrify me too.
So make a handy mobile web service that lets people type in their name and get a synthesized voice calling them. Have it gradually increase in volume over the course of the clip. You may have to charge people $.99 in order to make it really popular though.
It is entirely beyond me why anyone would want their cellphone to make noise at all. I've had mine on vibrate for 3 years, because I like being able to ignore it if I'm in the middle of something else, and would otherwise live in fear of being the jackass whose phone rings during class or in the theater.
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Frickin' terrifying. Well, I guess "cocktail party effect" is accurate after all, because those terrify me too.
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