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- NathanLoehlein, on 07/27/2009, -6/+50You know, there was a time before cell phones. Emergencies happened then, too.
- D4RKfantasy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47It is only supposed to block signals, not turn the phone off. Marked as inaccurate.
- incu_vamp, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34They should coat every movie theater with that.
- armyturtle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Still not as fun as a jammer... Following annoyning chatty bitches around and dropping their call everytime they get to the same part of their sentence makes for HOURS of fun.
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"It's hardly the poster's fault. The article itself is titled the same."
So posters shouldn't have to be bothered by actually *reading* the article before submission? - Scooley01, on 10/12/2007, -12/+26It's hardly the poster's fault. The article itself is titled the same.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24Good for you, now go outside and play hide and go ***** yourself!
For people who don't spend every waking second in front of digg, dupes and older stories are very much welcome! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14peopel are ***** stupid - education and information is wasted on 99% of people.
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14"It's easy to set up a system with this paint that will allow pagers to receive a signal, but block cell phone signals. All you need to do is install a low power transceiver with a bandpass filter."
Yeah that sounds really simple. Just install it between the flux-capacitor and the warp drive. . . - johndi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16That problem is easy to work around, just step outside. It is also better to call 911 from a landline which will give the dispatcher your location and save time.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Maybe that's the way you feel. But then maybe that's because you are fine with your own phone going off. There are still a fair number of us that find it just about as pleasant as someone persistently farting in public though. (And just as ignorant).
But then again, I'm sure there are more than a few folk here who do that too and give it equally as much thought. - noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11scooley01; then the submitter should at least have read and then clarified the article in the summary, or preferably found one that was more accurately titled.
- Chakz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19...And more people died.
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8persistently farting in public? what kind of analogy is that?
- wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -12/+18Something like this was on digg before. The problem with a shield is that if there happened to be an emergency and a cell phone was blocked, the situation could grow much worse and the owners would be sued.
- cr3ative, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8You know, if your life is dependent on a cell, you should REALLY review how you are living. People survived before phones.
Although, I agree, this should only really be used in cinemas and other places like that.
And if you NEED to be contacted while in a cinema, rent a DVD. - JorgeGT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7oops, I thought it referred to MS Paint :-P
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Yes, and cinemas, too."
was that a joke? - Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Must be burdensome to not have a life and to be a slave to your cell phone. Nobody *needs* to do anything but die and pay taxes (sometimes in that order), everything else is choice. BTW, I'm 52.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Lol, there is someone here who doesn't like this paint. He must be a truly ignorant son of a bitch, because he marked everyone down who said that this could be useful. Oh well I marked you all back up again.
Anyway for all I care they could paint every building in my city with this. Like smokers, if peeps with cell phones want to force other people to listen to their inane chatter, they should at least go outside where no one really cares. - Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just ban cell phones in theaters alltogether, intsall emergency phones on the wall and impose a fine for anyone sneaking a cell in.
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You would be surprised how well the world worked before there were mobile phones you know. We had emergencies too (and plenty of them) but we all seemed to cope.
Here's a solution for you, when you buy a ticket at a cinema, you give the ticket attendant your name and she logs the seat you are sitting at. Then you can leave the telephone number of the cinema with your relatives and if there is an emergency you are still contactable. It's not very high tech - but hey not everything needs to be.
And it's not like you are actually going to miss out on important text messages - as they will still be stored on a server and delivered the moment you step out of the cinema. The whole point of going to a cinema, or a restaurant (or other similar places) in any case is to get away (or escape) from the usual stresses of the day - or at least that's what most of us want. We don't want to be bugged by worries or reality, or technology or other people's concerns, no matter how important they may seem to them. - doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Since all these folks are dropping dead left and right because of the severe doctor shortage we should pass a law that forbids doctors from ever going anywhere other than the hiospital or their house. Or better yet, make all doctors live at the hospital.
Are you people for real? Gahhh.... - stuffhappens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Since my phone is also a PDA, I can still use it for many things when there's no cell signal.
- stuffhappens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4..as I was saying before Digg's editor kicked me out...
My phone's a PDA, but even then I have enough common sense and courtesy not to fiddle with it during cinema shows, meetings etc. That's the problem with many cell phone users; they have no comprehension of phone etiquette - and why the vast majority seem to have forgotten about the 'vibrate' function really puzzles me.
As I am an IT consultant and sometimes 'on call', I leave my phone on 24/7, but at night or when out it's on vibrate only and if a call comes in, I will check the phone for the caller ID and *IF* I need to deal with it I will go outside and return the call - I'll never answer the call as it comes in. It's easy!
If everyone wised-up to how to use a cell phone with common courtesy, cinemas etc. wouldn't need to use stuff like this paint. - doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"If everyone wised-up to how to use a cell phone with common courtesy, cinemas etc. wouldn't need to use stuff like this paint."
There's the problem in a nutshell - common courtesy isn't very common any more. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Aggreed. As much as kids would hate it, that would be a good idea for improving learning. It's a huge problem in my school, if you look at the room from the back of the class, half of the students will be text messaging each other. The teacher is up there lecturing the human equivelent of sandbags. I think kids would do a lot better if there were less distractions like cell phones in the classroom.
- MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Then I guess you would need to make the decision if you can risk not being contacted for a few hours. Yes, it may not seem fair to people like that, but guess what, it's also not fair that other people should have a movie interrupted because of someone else's family emergency. You have to draw the line somewhere. And besides, the article said it could still let pager signals through. So maybe they should just buy a pager and use that if they need to be available to their family 24/7. Also, your supposed to turn off your cell phone when you go to a movie anyways. The theater tells you to do that. With your phone completely off, you would be out of contact as well. If someone really needs to be available to others 24/7, then maybe they sould just invest in a good home theater system and wait for the movies to come out on DVD. There are far more jackasses who will take a call that essentially means nothing than there are who actually need to be available.
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It still does absolutely nothing to turn it off. does your cellphone power down? No. This is midly deceptive and quite obviously innacurate. It would have been a cool story if they'd just not tried to exagerate it. People understand if it says "blocks your signal".
- Ryan229, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Direct Link To Company Site: http://www.naturalnano.com/applications/RF_shielding/index.html
- MonkeyFit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, it is innaccurate. I was thinking maybe there was a special signal they could send to power off my phone for me. But instead, it just blocks my signal, still wasting my battery in the event i forget to turn off my phone.
- xst4t1kx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"It's hardly the poster's fault."
Who's fault is it then? Says here Troyp39 submitted this to Digg. If they want to submit inaccurate information they can expect it to be reported and ridiculed. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@VijchtiDoodah : On call doctors don't do it because ther are so damn generous of their time. They get paid to be on call. If they can't handle staying away from a theater while getting paid, its their problem, not the theater's one.
And if the theater clearly state that wireless devices will not work, I don't see how they can be liable in case of an emergency. Of course, all those imbecile who think they are cool with their permanent BT headset will take offense, but anyway... - Gimli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is one of the reasons I've set up a small home movie theater because people talking during the movies. The last movie I went too (about a year ago) some knucklehead had to talk on his cell phone the good portion of the movie. People can't seem to go anywhere without having to use their cell phones, I know I'm one of them but I turn my phone off in a movie theater. I'm probably one of the few that a person using a cell in a resturant is OK, for I usually find a good resturant is one that is a little noisy anyways so someone talking on the phone doesn't bother me. However, a movie theater is a different story, where a person spends a good chunk of change to see a movie not to hear about somoone's love life.
- chibigoku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish we had that in the auditoriums at the theatre I work at. Nothing pisses me, or the customers off more than a person who not only has their phone ring during a movie, but also decides its totally ok to answer the call sitting in their seat, talking as they normally would. Would save me the hassle of throwing them out....
- undersky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3you can just scream really loud
- uncleWalrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It must be nice to be 40 and full of yourself. People existed for THOUSANDS OF YEARS without cell phones. I think you can survive for 2 hours. The world won't miss you.
- Ibox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why dose every one think it is so important to know immediately if someone is being rushed to the hospital. they are on their way, I'm not a doctor, I cant do anything about it. If its serious they will still be there when I get out of the movie and I get the message.
- bill.clark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Soooo.... what you're saying is that cell phones are responsible for the population problem we have now? And that this paint is a simple solution to overpopulation? After all, if doctors can't answer their phones and people are dropping dead left and right, the world would be in a better place, right?
- danski, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Yep, it's all fun until the door jams and you need to call someone to let you out.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i'm not so sure about public places like movie theaters, but definately in school it'd be great.
one less distraction for kids. the problem i see in movies is that there are plenty of legit reasons for having your phone on in there, and people can always just put their phones on vibrate. - johndi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6It's easy to set up a system with this paint that will allow pagers to receive a signal, but block cell phone signals. All you need to do is install a low power transceiver with a bandpass filter.
- quicksilver, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I think this would make best use in Schools. Just paint inside of the class room only. That way the kids could still take a chance to use their phones outside of the room like in the halls, bathrooms, or out of the building/s.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um Cost?
- kennyvader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The thing that this paint isn't going to do is stop people looking at their phones *to see if they have got signal* or (I kid you not) to play a game for a while. Nothing annoys me more than watching a movie only for some idiot a few rows ahead and below me (if there's decent seating) to whip out their phone to check a text message or something, in the process, lighting a huge great glowing beacon, nicely distracting me from the cinema screen.
- celotil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My phone is very versatile. Not only can I use all the other functions to make notes of appointments, record video footage, take photos, edit documents, etc... I can even use my phone, except for communications, when there is no SIM card in it - and yes, it is a GSM mobile.
Of course, I don't take my phone out when I'm in the cinema because of the simple fact that I've paid at least $11 for a ticket and $13 for snacks, so I sit and eat my hotdogs and popcorn and drink my coke and watch the movie.
Fortunately I've not yet been to a cinema and had the experience of some other patron being an arse and talking through the film - I tend to go late on week nights when there are few people - as I'd probably waste my money then, getting kicked out for giving a chatter-box a coke and corn bath while loudly whispering,
"Oops, sorry! Your talking distracted me from paying attention to what I was doing!" - Subcranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Could we paint the outdoors with it too?
- umbra98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is my issue. I am a respectful cell phone user. It is almost always on silent. If I'm sitting in a theatre waiting for a friend, I want to be able to still send texts and even see if I miss their call.
Find a paint that puts phones on silent and you're in business. But please don't punish me by taking away my service just because other patrons are inconsiderate. - colol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@johndi
"It's easy to set up a system with this paint that will allow pagers to receive a signal, but block cell phone signals."
That's all well and good, except most doctors don't use pagers anymore. Why carry two devices when you can just have text messages arrive on your cell phone? And making your scheme work also requires equipment and money that erecting a "lead wall" with a couple gallons of paint doesn't. - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hey, you chose that job that you "need" to be available for, dont be shocked when it limits your personal free time and where you can go.
Do you get all pissy in poorly built buildings that naturally block your cell signal. Or how about in bad areas of reception...?
Doctors use pagers so it doesnt matter...
If you need to be contactable at all times, you better be at home sitting 5 feet from that phone otherwise you are not always able to be contacted right now. I welcome this paint in theaters and restraunts and to those that have a problem with it, you are fighting a losing battle so ***** off, you are not as important as you pretend to be -
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