Introducing the Waleli doorbell-phone
In the endless list of cell phone-cum-some-other-gadget fusions, the cameraphone tops most people’s list of favorites. Others love their gaming phones, others can’t have enough of their media player phones. Then again, there are really so many possible phone fusions we could think of to actually name a possible favorite. A lighter phone would suit smokers. An electric zapper phone would be the favorite of, say, policemen, and those who seek to have a rollicking good electronic zapping time…
Now, some people in the Netherlands thought of another way to fuse the relatively modern cellphone with the relatively old gadget, plain old doorbell. As you know, we don’t really pay much attention to the doorbell. So these guys decided to put the doorbell in a new light and upgrade it to include a GSM function. Thus, the GSM doorbell was born.
The only difference with the Waleli doorbell and a normal doorbell is that the Waleli doorbell can ring up a homeowner’s mobile phone. When a homeowner is in some errand somewhere and a friend rings up at their door, a call will be sent to the homeowner’s phone and the friend will be able to talk to the homeowner via a panel next to the doorbell. The resident can also open the door to their home from anywhere else, using a secret code typed on their mobile keypad.
The GSM doorbell is already being sold by property developers in the Netherlands and is coming soon to other parts of the world. The company, and some eager absent-minded folks who constantly fall into the habit of losing their house keys have named numerous ways in which the Waleli GSM doorbell could be useful, but some of us wonder: could a lost mobile phone be hacked to let strangers into a house? Uh, we didn’t give you that idea…
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In the endless list of cell phone-cum-some-other-gadget fusions, the cameraphone tops most people’s list of favorites. Others love their gaming phones, others can’t have enough of their media player phones. Then again, there are really so many possible phone fusions we could think of to actually name a possible favorite. A lighter phone would suit smokers. An electric zapper phone would be the favorite of, say, policemen, and those who seek to have a rollicking good electronic zapping time…
Now, some people in the Netherlands thought of another way to fuse the relatively modern cellphone with the relatively old gadget, plain old doorbell. As you know, we don’t really pay much attention to the doorbell. So these guys decided to put the doorbell in a new light and upgrade it to include a GSM function. Thus, the GSM doorbell was born.
The only difference with the Waleli doorbell and a normal doorbell is that the Waleli doorbell can ring up a homeowner’s mobile phone. When a homeowner is in some errand somewhere and a friend rings up at their door, a call will be sent to the homeowner’s phone and the friend will be able to talk to the homeowner via a panel next to the doorbell. The resident can also open the door to their home from anywhere else, using a secret code typed on their mobile keypad.
The GSM doorbell is already being sold by property developers in the Netherlands and is coming soon to other parts of the world. The company, and some eager absent-minded folks who constantly fall into the habit of losing their house keys have named numerous ways in which the Waleli GSM doorbell could be useful, but some of us wonder: could a lost mobile phone be hacked to let strangers into a house? Uh, we didn’t give you that idea…
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