Cellphone Jammer - Would you use it?

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A portable device designed to look like a cellphone, but instead it jams cellphone usage within a range of 15 meters.

I totally dig this thing.  If I could be certain it was effective, I would buy one of these in a minute.  I HATE cellphones, and it would be great to turn it on while you\'re in a movie theater to quietly enforce the theater\'s policy of no cell phone usage.  

Of course with great power comes great responsibility.    Could you make yourself NOT use it in other situations, like when someone is having an annoying conversation on the bus?  Maybe I\'d carry it around and only turn it on to take care of the worst offenders.  

[Kurt Angle]

That is a great idea, I work in a shop and I hate it when I am talking to a customer and they just answer their phone while I am mid conversation. It\'s very rude and that device would come in handy in such situations.

[clips]

i think you will also have the scenario where immature a$$holes will use it just for the hell of it..

Sweet, how much? :cool:

On the down side, if an emergency were to happen and a cell phone was the only option to call for help................

Then someone finds a landline.  I don\'t see this device being used in any place that is so remote that no landlines exist... and if so, all you do is walk 50 feet away and use the cell.

Jamming devices are illegal, no matter what they tell you.

You are making a choice you don\'t have a right to make, because you are affecting people around you to a large degree, and not accepting any concequences yourself.  You don\'t know that that guy in the movie theatre isn\'t a heart surgeon who misses his on-call emergency page (which is why most theatres have re-transmitters that make your cell read \'emergencies only\').  You don\'t know that you aren\'t cutting off a call for someone who is talking to someone very important or about something very important or time critical.

Originally posted by FatalXception
(which is why most theatres have re-transmitters that make your cell read \'emergencies only\').

I\'ve never heard of that.  Of course I don\'t have a cell phone so I can\'t be certain, but I strongly suspect (judging from the number of phones I hear ringing during films) that does not exist in Los Angeles.  Maybe in Canada, but not here?

This is always a good cellphone jammer:

^^^:)

Most modern US theaters block cell phone signals through the walls.

I like the idea of the jammer but they need to make it expensive so kids won\'t abuse it.

The two theaters I go to don\'t block signals, and they are both relatively new theaters.

[videoholic]

I would think it would be illegal to block cell phones by jamming them.  Especially for a business.

I would certainly hate for a doctor to miss a page if he is on call.  Or are you going to tell me that they should sit at home if they are on call?

Jammers are illegal.  Bulding materials that might happen to have the side effect of blocking signal are not.  

How did doctors get along before cell phones and pagers?  

I\'ve yet to see a theater that blocks cell phones and I have been to many of theaters in MI.

Originally posted by Coredweller
Jammers are illegal.  Bulding materials that might happen to have the side effect of blocking signal are not.  

How did doctors get along before cell phones and pagers?  

I\'ll tell you how they got along, THEY LET PEOPLE DIE! That\'s how.