7/16/2005

Technology enabled white lies
San Francisco—…”Alibi Intersection,” as the device is known, comes with six buttons that generate noises such as driving a car, standing in a train station or hearing a front-door chime. A software version for mobile phones that goes by the name of SoundCover in Europe and Soundster in the United States…

The Alibi Intersection(tm). called “アリバイ交差点” in Japanese, is available via Store.Yahoo.co.jp 2,o74yen ($18.49 USD). It provides ” six types of alibi sounds: an intercom interuption, being stuck in the rain, the noise inside a train station, the din of a pachinko game parlor, telephones ringing in a business environment and the front door bell ringing. Somehow the sound of a pachinko gambling parlor seems like a lame excuse for anything…except trying to prove you’re not in a love hotel.