Your best idea so far this month?

Eoghan Mag · February 07, 2009, 11:45:05 PM

I don't often get new ideas and when I do they often prove to be failures. Today I came up with a simple one that actually works. People have asked me time and time again for my mobile phone number and I can never remember it so I would give them my home number instead. Today I wrote down the phone number in big black letters, took a photo of it with my mobile and then saved the photograph as my phone's wall-paper. Now every time I flip open the phone the number is right there.

DoYerJob Linesman · February 07, 2009, 11:47:28 PM

Whoppdee do!!!

Who's a clever boy?

the green man · February 07, 2009, 11:49:51 PM

Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on February 07, 2009, 11:47:28 PM
Whoppdee do!!!

Who's a clever boy?

Leave him alone you, he's only knew.

DoYerJob Linesman · February 07, 2009, 11:52:17 PM

Quote from: the green man on February 07, 2009, 11:49:51 PM
Quote from: DoYerJob Linesman on February 07, 2009, 11:47:28 PM
Whoppdee do!!!

Who's a clever boy?

Leave him alone you, he's only knew.

Drop the K, eejit.

the green man · February 07, 2009, 11:58:55 PM

Do you not know I've a problem with K's?

pintsofguinness · February 07, 2009, 11:59:13 PM

Why didnt you just save your own number as a contact in your phonebook?

(I dont know my own phone numbers either, or any pin numbers etc)

DoYerJob Linesman · February 08, 2009, 12:00:13 AM

Hand on Harte green man, I didnt know.

Eoghan Mag · February 08, 2009, 12:19:49 AM

I keep forgetting where I save the number in the phone and it takes too long to look it up. This is a more instant method.

DrinkingHarp · February 08, 2009, 01:12:18 AM

why not just dial their # and then they would have yours?

Puckoon · February 08, 2009, 01:13:30 AM

Some people would go round the world for a shortcut

I think your buy, swop and sell thread tops your mobile phone idea.

ziggysego · February 08, 2009, 01:29:29 AM

A few years ago I had a great idea for an electric hammer. Then I watched The Simpsons on Sky One and Homer came up with the same idea.

My idea was slightly better though, as the hammer was also magnetised.

Bud Wiser · February 08, 2009, 11:55:27 AM

Has anyone got the nuts and bolts of this figured out?

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/its-spy-as-you-go-as-google-goes-too-1628287.html

pintsofguinness · February 08, 2009, 12:03:31 PM

I've a great idea...
Do you knwo when you have to stir at the cooker, well wouldnt it be great if you had this device that could do it for you.

I'm thinking, you could have something to attach to the edge of the rings when you need it, with a spoon like device on it, it could have speed settings etc and you wouldnt have to stand over it!
Brillant or what!

Bud Wiser · February 08, 2009, 12:27:24 PM

Howe about a fart catcher for an ass from which you could provide a methane powered ultraviolet fly catcher to hang over his ears to stop the fly's going into his eyes.

Fear ón Srath Bán · February 08, 2009, 05:01:51 PM

Quote from: Bud Wiser on February 08, 2009, 11:55:27 AM
Has anyone got the nuts and bolts of this figured out?

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/its-spy-as-you-go-as-google-goes-too-1628287.html

I'd imagine Bud, that this is just a view on the Mobile Network's 'Triangulation' (triangulation is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline, rather than measuring distances to the point directly. The point can then be fixed as the third point of a triangle with one known side and two known angles.), whereby the Networks already have that information of your whereabouts if they wanted it, and they've given Google access to it.