Technology Aimed at Drunken Dialers"> Technology Aimed at Drunken Dialers

Virgin Mobile just completed a study where 95% of the participants admitted to the modern age’s newest problem: Drinking and Dialing. Apparently the cell phone makes it too easy to place that 2:00 AM call to the ex, or the slurred and highly inappropriate invitation to the new person you’re dating (or rather the new person you were dating until you D&D’ed.)

In Australia Virgin Mobile is now testing a new drunk dialing service where you can enter the phone number of people you absolutely should not call, and then after 20 beers when you decide you really, really want to make that call at 3:30AM, the number remains blocked until 6:00AM the next day. Tech Dirt makes the good point: when sober you know you would never call that number so are you even likely to block it? If only there was some way to activate it later. Cheers!