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Twitch-twitch.... can you hold, I have another skull waiting?

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Real Estate Agent with Jameson Sotheby's International Realty

Cellular phones are getting smaller and smaller... it's bad enough, today, when you see people walking down the grocery store aisles, and sidewalks apparently talking to themselves, when they're actually talking on their bluetooth grasshoppers mercilessly chomping on their ears.

The day is coming, you heard it here first, where phones will be surgically implanted in out skulls... kind of ala the cochlear implant.  No outward mechanism required, all you have to do is twitch your head once to the left to answer the call, and once to the right to hang up.

A double-left twitch will put the call on hold, and allow you to take the skull-waiting call, and a double-right twitch will allow for conference skulling.

It's not bad enough that everyone walking down the street is talking to themselves, but now they'll look like homeless zombies, twitching as they go.

Who are you kidding, you know you want one.  It'll be the Realtors who adopt them first, then the stock brokers and traders, then the school teachers... and then, they'll come for you.

What a world, what a world, what a world.

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Posted by

 ALAN MAY, Realtor®   
Specializing in Evanston Real Estate and North Shore Real Estate

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty, 2934 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201
Office: 847.869.7300      Cell: 847.924.3313      Email: Almay@aol.com

Evanston Real Estate & North Shore Real Estate
Licensed in Illinois

   

Comments(27)

Liz and Bill Spear
Transaction Alliance 513.520.5305 www.LizTour.com - Mason, OH
Transaction Alliance Cincinnati & Dayton suburbs

Alan, The first step towards the actual creation of the Borg collective :)  And I don't have trouble picturing Net/phone access becoming an always on, implant style device some day.  And really, Big Brother won't be watching......

Jul 18, 2012 08:43 PM
Kathryn Maguire
GreatNorfolkHomes.com (757) 560-0881 - Chesapeake, VA
Serving Chesapeake, Norfolk, VA Beach

Sorry, I don't think so.  Implanting foreign objects is not for me.  I don't even like the look when people walk around during all waking hours with a hands free device on their ear.

Jul 18, 2012 09:09 PM
Sheila Anderson
Referral Group Incorporated - East Brunswick, NJ
The Real Estate Whisperer Who Listens 732-715-1133

Good morning Alan. You may be right with this,, and it is scary. I on the other hand, long for a simplier time and find this stuff offensive. Just sayin...

Jul 18, 2012 11:40 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Jack - well.. as Realtors we're fair game anyway.

Kathy - we all like to be "plugged in", don't we?

Karen Anne - you can't imagine how distressed I would be if everyone looked like Seven of Nine.

Patricia - the ultimate "blue tooth"?

Mike - if woman can survive, they may find...

Margaret - not sure I'm willing to have that implant done at my local strip-mall.

Charles - or so I hear.

Liz & Bill - oh, big brother has been watching for years.

Kathryn - I know... I always want to slap it off.

Sheila - I wonder what they found offensive 100 years ago?

Jul 18, 2012 11:42 PM
Malcolm Johnston
Century 21 Lanthorn Real Estate LTD., Trenton, Ontario - Trenton, ON
Trenton Real Estate

Your ruminations are a decade too late Alan. They designed an implant that goes into your tooth in 2002 already.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-implant.htm

 

Jul 19, 2012 12:42 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Alan - The first time I saw a guy walking down the street, talking loudly and gesticulating wildly, who wasn't a lunatic, was years ago in downtown Chicago, just after cell phone headsets first came out. If they start implanting, the lunatics will have almost perfect camouflage again.

Jul 19, 2012 01:23 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Malcolm - you need to scroll down to the bottom where it reveals itself as an April Fool's joke. (see the image below).

Dick - pretty soon it'll be ALL lunatics.

Jul 19, 2012 03:33 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

If and when that ever happens, I'm refusing to become part of the skull twitching crowd.  I'll move to a cabin in the mountains and talk to squirrels.

Jul 19, 2012 06:22 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Chris Ann - I'm sure the squirrels will be "plugged in".

Jul 19, 2012 08:03 AM
Nick T Pappas
Assoc. Broker ABR, CRS, SFR, e-Pro, @Homes Realty Group, Broker/Providence Property Mgmnt, LLC Huntsville AL - Huntsville, AL
Madison & Huntsville Alabama Real Estate Resource
Alan, I gotta tell ya...I don't one! I don't even want the cell phone I have...necessary evil.
Jul 19, 2012 12:59 PM
Jordon Wheeler
The Jordon Wheeler Group - Fairburn, GA
J W Group Real Estate Sales and Service

Hey Alan,

It is weird to see people talking on the phone while appearing to be talking to themselves.  I'm looking forward to the day when laptops/Ipad are virtual devices accessible anywhere and not hardware to carry around.  Best of success to you this year!

Jul 19, 2012 02:06 PM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Nick, Nick, Nick... is that your pocket vibrating?

Jordon - and it's going to get weirder.

Jul 19, 2012 11:02 PM
Steven Cook
No Longer Processing Mortgages. - Tacoma, WA

Alan -- what a timely blog.  The following was posted on July 6: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2012/July06/066.html

Jul 21, 2012 01:55 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Steven - they make it sound so creepy, doing surgery on cadavers!  Ringtone of the living dead?

Jul 21, 2012 05:50 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

I really don't doubt too much what you say, Alan.  You may have also inspired someone to start working on one!!

Jul 22, 2012 02:03 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Barbara - well, thank you for that.

Jul 22, 2012 05:44 AM
Jim Patton
Aspire Home Real Estate 209-404-0816 - Modesto, CA
Realtor - Stanislaus ,Merced, San Joaquin Counties

It would not surprise me at all Alan.   The only thing that bothers me is where will I have to plug in the charger?? 

Jul 24, 2012 04:04 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Jim - oooh, that could hurt.

Jul 24, 2012 05:09 AM
Tim Bradley
Contour Investment Properties - Jackson Hole, WY
Commercial Real Estate Expert in Jackson Hole, WY

The Borg are already among us. Resistance is futile.

Jul 26, 2012 07:08 AM
Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

Locutous - welcome.

Jul 26, 2012 01:18 PM