http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4355


I'm looking forward to taking this thing out on a friday night.

9/10/2008 3:05:52 PM

i need one of these things hidden underneath my desk at work.

9/10/2008 3:09:20 PM

Looks like it'll take about 2 weeks to get it in



I'm stoked.

9/10/2008 3:10:44 PM

That could only be fun

9/10/2008 3:22:52 PM

let us know how it works...reviews are mixed

9/10/2008 3:52:05 PM

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"Creates a 0.5M ~ 15M (about 2 to 40 feet) radius of cell phone signal black out area"

i'm betting it's much closer to 2 than 40

but hey, sounds like fun anyway

9/10/2008 3:55:10 PM

"Interesting conversation starter."

9/10/2008 3:56:46 PM

What a fantastic idea! I'm tempted.

This would be awesome to bring to the movie theater or a quiet concert.

9/10/2008 3:58:45 PM

I'm looking forward to reporting you to the FCC

9/10/2008 4:08:26 PM

i would love to have one that would do about 500-1000 feet or so as im driving everyone around me is forced to drive and not talk

oh and i hope it clears customs

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:25 PM. Reason : 

9/10/2008 4:24:11 PM

^ Another excellent use for it. Good thinking.

9/10/2008 4:26:00 PM

^^ or more realistically, everyone will not only be holding their phones but they will stop looking at the road (the few that are) and look to see why their call was dropped.

personally i think movie theaters ought to have things like this installed. but until there is a law against using your phone in public, you should be allowed to do so without interference by someone else.

9/10/2008 4:33:43 PM

you can passively block cellular signals with special attenuation panels

9/10/2008 4:54:05 PM

Wow the price of those have come down a lot.

9/10/2008 5:00:31 PM

It'd be fun to walk around Starbucks or Panera and watch people get pissed cause the internets broke

9/11/2008 12:24:32 PM

Newer movie theaters already make their walls so thick and insulated that very few can get a signal.

Some passenger trains line their windows with a transparent metal film for the same reason.

9/11/2008 1:27:03 PM

awesome.

9/11/2008 9:22:49 PM

besides proving you're an asshole. what purpose does this serve in the real world for common folk?

9/11/2008 9:39:20 PM

hahaha, my buddy had one of these. the funniest shit was taking it to meetings for shit like the local fire department where every redneck there had a nextel and making them beep over and over every time they lost/regained server..

[Edited on September 11, 2008 at 9:45 PM. Reason : ^none.]

9/11/2008 9:45:10 PM

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"what purpose does this serve in the real world for common folk?"

Movie theater
Concert

9/11/2008 9:52:27 PM

^I don't see what purpose it serves in the theater or concert for common folk. Because if you think its your right to block out everyone's reception then you're just an asshole.

9/12/2008 12:11:26 AM

agreed. I would be pissed if someone had this in a movie theater near me. I never have my phone off of vibrate anyways so its not your job to keep me from receiving a call.

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"personally i think movie theaters ought to have things like this installed. "

pretty much the same response to that. It will never work because you are just interfering unnecessarily. what about adults going to the movies while their kids are being babysat and the sitter has an emergency? Yes it is really annoying to have someone's phone go off during a movie but, in general its not a big enough problem to cause this kind of inconvenience / take Big Brotheresque action.

9/12/2008 7:42:51 AM

I plan on using it as a prank device.


If it will kill all the calls in the same room as I'm in, I'll be as giddy as a school girl.


I'm not gonna get into complaining about bad drivers or movie theater talkers.

[Edited on September 12, 2008 at 8:37 AM. Reason : they say it only lasts about an hour or so on a full charge. so it's usless for a full movie.]

9/12/2008 8:36:32 AM

some peoples jobs require they have cell service, e.g. on-call support. i've been forced to leave movies for this reason.

anyways, i think it's an asshole move to fuck with peoples phones for personal amusement.

9/12/2008 8:39:38 AM

the FCC will have your ass for it; otherwise people would install these in movie theaters all the time.

9/13/2008 3:57:00 PM

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"Newer movie theaters already make their walls so thick and insulated that very few can get a signal."

most movie theaters I go to are pretty new and I have never had this problem.

9/13/2008 4:06:09 PM

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"pretty much the same response to that. It will never work because you are just interfering unnecessarily. what about adults going to the movies while their kids are being babysat and the sitter has an emergency? Yes it is really annoying to have someone's phone go off during a movie but, in general its not a big enough problem to cause this kind of inconvenience / take Big Brotheresque action."

I wonder what people did before cell phones when they went to the movies and had emergencies such as these...hmmm...

9/13/2008 5:01:56 PM

i knew someone would say that haha. that doesnt really work as an argument, in fact its pretty laughable. im going to go around and let the air out of peoples tires in my apartment complex at night so they are inconvenienced getting to work in the morning. come on it shouldnt be a problem! how did people get to work before people had cars! LOLZ iz so smartz.

its not up to you to take away someones cell phone service they are paying for. the fact is they DO have that phone and you have NO right to take that away from them and cause them an inconvenience simply because our parents didnt have these amenities when we were kids. is that what you would plan on telling the fcc or the cops if something like what i said did happen and they were somehow able to trace it? lol

9/13/2008 5:42:00 PM

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"i knew someone would say that haha. that doesnt really work as an argument, in fact its pretty laughable. im going to go around and let the air out of peoples tires in my apartment complex at night so they are inconvenienced getting to work in the morning. come on it shouldnt be a problem! how did people get to work before people had cars! LOLZ iz so smartz."

I want you to think really hard why these two instances aren't in the same boat...go ahead...I'll wait...

[Edited on September 13, 2008 at 5:59 PM. Reason : in]

9/13/2008 5:59:00 PM

nah thats ok, i used an extreme example for lolz but you still have no point. the argument that you have the right to disable someone else's services they are paying for simply because people went without them in the past is pretty ridiculous in and of itself. Especially considering 90% of the peoples phones you are disabling prob have their ringers on vibrate respectfully anyways and youd be screwing them over just to be a dick.

[Edited on September 13, 2008 at 6:43 PM. Reason : ]

9/13/2008 6:42:48 PM

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"I wonder what people did before cell phones when they went to the movies and had emergencies such as these...hmmm..."

they sat at home.

I'd be all for it at restaurants, but you'd feel like shit if someone died because an on call heart surgeon went out for a bite to eat and couldnt be reached

9/13/2008 6:48:14 PM

I don't see what the problem would be as long as places posted "cell phones will not function beyond this point." That way if you're super paranoid about people having to be able to get in touch with you, you can always text them the theatre's number before you go in or whatever. I think the only reason to bitch like calledtoarms is would be if jamming or blocking technology was deployed without any kind of notice. That would be al ittle annoying to discover your cell phone on virbate didn't work when you had expected it to. Otherwise, whining about it would just be childish. I mean you are on private property when you go into a theatre, and you don't have some inherent right to bring cell phones into their theaters.

Using it as a prank device is fine though, but yeah vigilante use of it on property other than your own would be problematic. The example of causing drivers to pay less attention to the road and look at their cell phone is probably a good cautionary one.

9/13/2008 8:24:59 PM

the thing the OP posted is extremely poorly made. hell most of the parts come from radio shack.

you are gonna have to tune that thing to get it to work properly, if it works at all.

it doesn't have the power, nor the range to work effectively.

random signal generators work better, but they are crazy expensive and most electronics will not work around them... which i guess could be a good thing.

9/13/2008 9:01:16 PM

Extreme, yes. More importantly, I think my comment was leading you down the wrong road. Quite frankly, I was stating that what you believe is a right is actually a privilege. Yes, you silenced your phone, but the buzzing is annoying as well. Not only that, but if we both paid to see a movie, you're doing us both a disservice. Cut the phone off...sit back and relax...enjoy the movie. The world will not stop because you didn't answer the phone. Think about it like this. The issue isn't so much cell phones as it is disrupting the experience. Why should the complications, issues, or simple hellos of your life intrude upon mine?

9/13/2008 9:14:40 PM

they dont intrude on your experience and I am not doing you a disservice. My phone vibrates ONCE when i set it to be in a movie theater...one DASH vibrate (less than a second) and it is inside my pocket, and inside a movie theater with as loud as they are these days, then congrats to you if you can hear it.

I agree that it is a privelage, but unless a sign is posted YOU have no right to take away my privelage. If I have kids left with a baby sitter and I am going into a movie with no sign posted saying I wont get service then I expect to be able to get a call in case of an emergency without some random person having fun interrupting my phone.

Yes, It is annoying when people's RINGERS go off blasting during a movie, but I dont have any one I ever go to the movies with that turns their phones off completely and i dont ever remember being annoyed if and when their phones did vibrate on the few occasions they have (generally they look at who it is and stop the vibrating if they arent answering it).

Honestly I have missed a call or two in movie theaters even on times when I just had my phone on normal vibrate because I didnt feel it and it is certainly not loud enough to annoy other people around me.

I pretty much never have my ringer on anyways, its on vibrate 24/7. I feel im pretty considerate of not disturbing other people around me and generally I consider vibrate to be a perfectly acceptable setting to have your phone on during a movie. maybe thats just me. i think youre getting a bit anal at this point.

[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 1:16 AM. Reason : ]

9/14/2008 1:15:00 AM

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"t I dont have any one I ever go to the movies with that turns their phones off completely"

i either turn my phone completely off or leave it in the car when i go to the movies. i hate cell phones.

9/14/2008 8:41:34 AM

Would this interfere with wireless routers?

9/14/2008 9:47:58 AM

probably not because the carrier frequency is different

9/14/2008 11:33:36 AM

^ Depending on how this thing works, it might.

9/14/2008 12:21:22 PM

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"i either turn my phone completely off or leave it in the car when i go to the movies. i hate cell phones."

9/14/2008 2:12:23 PM