"A new paint on the market, applied to the walls of any room, will disallow cell phone use from that room. The paint contains copper particles which will interfere with cell signals."
So . . .
What do you think of not being able to use your cell phone?? Particularly in some kind of dire emergency?
I'm thinking of how this could be terribley exploited by criminals, terrorists, serial killers, hijackers, etc, in public facilities.
Do you think the pant will cover well? Will the colours fade or be drastically altered by moisture and such??
What do you think of anti-cell-signal paint??
[ March 03, 2006, 11:56 AM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
quote: What do you think of not being able to use your cell phone?? Particularly in some kind of dire emergency?
We've all gotten so conditioned to being attached to our cell phones. We would manage just fine, exactly like people did for all those years before we had them.
If it's in a building, chances are it's not THAT far away from a land-line phone.
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
I think this is the best thing to happen to us working people in a long time. I can't wait. I'll pain't my entire lobby withit. Im glad.. I think I'll mention this to few freinds too.
Some places have no room for cell phones such as my lobby when a possible customer insists on using her cell phone, blabbling loudly overpowering everyone else within 37 feet, while I am trying to wait on another. She being so busy she has about 11 things going on all at the same time,, yet is late to pick up her kid at the nursery,, And then asking for a price to redo her phone number on a coro yard sign,, then telling me $5 bux was too much... SHEESH!
I can't wait to be able to use some....
You will find me smiling, in my new lobby when cell phones no longer ring.. Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
Kimberly, I agree about the cell phone dependency . . .
Cu'tis, I heard that!
I guess I'm thinkin' of extreme situations like for example, a school room or a plane during a hostage situation, where cell phones have actually been used to save lives. I realize I'm thinking of extreme situations where criminals would be at an advantage.
Posted by jake snow (Member # 5889) on :
What would really be cool is if you could paint some custom cell phone faces with this stuff and give them out to people you don't like at christmas Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Can we please paint everyone's cars with it? Shut up and drive people!
Posted by Mark M. Kottwitz (Member # 1764) on :
I can't wait till they do the inside of a movie theater...
Between cell phones, and screaming kids, I just don't go anymore. If fact the last time that I went was when Star Wars Phantom Menace came out...
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Mark I agree with you! 4 years ago, I bought a 46 inch TV and have been to a movie theater 3 times since. Much more enjoyable to watch movies off satellite or from a rental shop!
Posted by Bill Preston (Member # 1314) on :
Mark and Si, and I all agree on the movie thing---I haven't been to a flick in I don't know how long. For all the above-named reasons. Kimberly is also right---shut up and drive, dammit!
For myself, I consider myself to be a Very Unimportant Person, and have no need for a cell phone---and I sure as hell won't have one. I have enough techno-trouble managing the computer.
Next question or subject.
bill preston
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Jake, everytime I read one of your posts, I like ya more & more.
There already are a lot of places you can't use a cell phone. Get into any rural area & you'll find large areas of 'dead spots'. Unfortunately, these places also have probably the smallest payphone-to-land area ratio imaginable. Those big metal buildings, much like the one OP put up are dead spots too. His size should be fine, but get into 1 of those in an industrial warehouse size.
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
It would be the greatest thing for cinemas like you guys said, but also restaurants, cafés, churches, funeral homes and all those places where you don't want to be next to real estate agent. For real emergencies... regular phones would still do the job.
For kids rooms, that's another subject, I can say no to my kids and they still love and respect me. Kids don't need a cell phone more than the dog needs a second tail! My kids will have a cell phone, a piercing or a purple hairdo when they have their own mailbox.
Posted by Desire Rusovsky (Member # 2876) on :
You amaze me a little! Cell phone jammers are available since several years!
What happens when you eat copper paint chips?
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
Heres an idea, why don't you contact the maker and ask them if they'll become merchants here Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
FINALLY!!! A good use for pennies!
Keep a pocketful of pennies and see if they disrupt service. If not, take them out whenever you meet someone disrupting the social order...
...and pelt them with the copper pennies!
Too much coffee today... Rapid
[ March 03, 2006, 07:13 PM: Message edited by: Ray Rheaume ]
Posted by Tim & Kathy Cameron (Member # 1721) on :
anyone read the new s. king book "Cell"?.........
Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
Was it here a while back that someone posted the OT article about the guy that had a lifetime hobby of collecting pennies? Anyway, this guy had like 5 tons of pennies in his basement, and after the house got struck for the fifth time by lightning, he decided to part with the collection.
This paint, if it's not a gag, WILL BE green, if left exposed to air for any length of time. Maybe a topcoat would help there.
The 'conspiracy theory government is out to x ray my house for guns' crowd might also be interested. Myself, I would be more inclined to cut out a hundred or so GSO's (gun shaped objects) from sheet metal, and have them in every concievable wall, attic, etc. When they show up, give 'em that 'relaxing with the newspaper who-me? look.
Posted by William Holohan (Member # 2514) on :
Even after reading the caveats on the site for the jammers, I may just buy one, strap it to the roof of my car and spend my remaining years driving up and down the highways of the US with it. My life would probably be shortened quite a bit. I would be sure to die of dehydration from loosing so much fluid while I laughed so hard that the tears would run and run from my eyes. Dieing for the public good wouldn't be so bad.
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