Telemarketer? There’s An App For That.
Oct 02
Fiction Friday Satire, Telemarketers 2 Comments
Woonsocket, R.I. (FNN) A small Rhode Island software company is about to launch a product that promises to make many consumers’ dream come true. Avenger Software Solutions will soon be releasing its Ouch! software for the iPhone and Android. The app allows the user to send a surge of electricity to someone on the other end of a phone conversation.
Wolf Pascal, CEO of Avenger, described his company’s product to Fake News Network. “The basic building blocks for Ouch! were taken from the WiTricity project at MIT. What we’ve done is adapted this technology for use with cellular telephones. We are able to draw electricity from the user’s mobile handset and send it wirelessly across the cellular grid. When it reaches the person on the other end of the call, they receive an unpleasant, yet nonlethal electric shock. The intensity of the shock is based on the remaining capacity of the user’s cell phone battery.”
In a related announcement, Avenger’s hardware division announced that they will be producing high capacity batteries for several smart phones.
Ouch! has drawn criticism from several telemarketer advocate groups, who fear that the software is unsafe at any speed.
“This software clearly has the ability to cause serious and permanent brain damage. Avenger must be stopped at all costs,” commented an angry Graham Bell, head of the Center for Telemarketer Acceptance.
We spoke to Avenger’s head of testing, Frank Milgram. He steadfastly refuted the claims made by Bell and his colleagues. “Our testing has led to believe that there are absolutely no long term effects. Would you like some coffee? Our testing has led to believe that there are absolutely no long term effects. Would you like some coffee? Our testing has led to believe that there are absolutely no long term effects. Would you like some coffee?”
While cell phone users will soon be reaping great benefits from Ouch!, the fact remains that the vast majority of telemarketing calls are made to landline phones. Might a similar product make its way to landline users at some point?
“We’re definitely working on that,” replied Pascal. “We have a prototype hardware device that could be attached to a landline phone. However, at this point, we don’t feel that we could bring it to market at a price point that would be acceptable to consumers.”
Ouch! – coming to an App Store near you.
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Evan @40Tech
Oct 02, 2010 @ 14:01:58
Sign me up! I’ll take 10!
If only there were such a thing, the world would be a more interesting place.