Monday, October 27, 2008

True Call; To Hell With Telemarketers


I was scanning through the topics over on Yahoo News today and came across this pretty cool gadget called True Call. Basically this gadget screens all your incoming calls and can verify their legitimacy. The system breaks down like this;

  1.  A telemarketer calls your phone 
  2. True Call asks them for their name and number as well as their general purpose for calling
  3. Without Ringing, your phone displays the information and you can choose whether you want to answer the call or not.
If that isn't cool enough, you can set up True Call to actually zap any caller from any unrecognized number. Pretty cool, but if I was job hunting I wouldn't want to zap a potential employer. Anyway, the system was developed by a couple of ex-telemarketers. I think it is a pretty cool system, but I'm sure there are a lot of bugs to work out. In the meantime, I'm just going to stick with the do not call registry.

2 comments:

techniqueal t. said...

pretty nice gadget. i could use this to ward off a couple of relentless insanely irritating clients ^_^ nice find.

David Wornica said...

Thanks, This product popped up on my Yahoo homepage so I thought I'd post my two cents about it. It looks pretty cool, but I can only imagine the havoc it would wreak on job seekers and such.

Glad you enjoyed the post!