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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:40 PM
Wed - September 17, 2003
Maybe These Will Be Big Sellers In Cancun?
You want to get away from it all, but
you've got to transact business. An impossible situation? Not if these
inventors get their way.
Technology
demonstrates a remarkable capacity to solve problems. Some of these problems
are real. And some of them exist in a mysterious realm of secrets and
shadows—a realm we call The Twilight Zone
...
How else can we explain the Isophone, a telephone that mates a flotation tank with a telephone to permit crisp, clear, interruption free calls from the center of your pool or a sinking ship?
"You can't hear anything else, you can't see anything else, you can't smell anything else, all you have coming in is the telephone call," one of its inventors says. "So you can imagine your businessman who's abroad in Japan might be able to make a telephone call from the swimming pool to a loved one, or indeed to someone else involved in business, and have a really in-depth telephone call."
... which, of course, would not be possible with a traditional phone? Let's hope that waterproof notepads are next on the inventors' agenda.