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[qarSuv]

 I was thinking... ...

How about getting a Klingon commbadge and using it as a casing for a real phone? I even saw bare circuitry being sold as such. If it has double activation - clamshell and top button, it could be set on "integrated hands-free" when you press the button and on "normal" - private mode - when you take it off the sleeve/belt and open the clamshell.
You can have the actual sounds from ST to go with it, maybe set only for other Klingons, so that you don't accidentally ask your boss "nuqneH" <whatchawant?>   

With the voice-dial options available, you can actually call somebody's name and have them phoned 

It should be that much easier with the bulkier models.

If you get really good "insides", you can interface it with your lap/palmtop as a mouse and/or/internet link. And you can make a Klingon casing for the palmtop - check out the PADDs on VOY Prophecy. And something nice (and removable if necessary) for the laptop...

Your reality-obsessed dreamsister,

qarSuv


[Edit -- changed thread title]

[Klythe]

    Actually, my boss knows I'm a Klingon and probably wouldn't be too taken aback if I did answer the phone in Klingon.   

 
    In order to be practical, you would need to be able not only to dial someone in the phonebook via voice commands, but also digit dial from voice.  A full keypad would ruin the effect.  So save for a few buttons, (such as power, up, down and select for config menus), all the features would have to be voice or menu driven.   This limits a little bit, but I'm sure it is feasable to make such a phone.  I'd probably build mine into the Klinogn Communicator from Star Trek III...   At that size I would be less likely to lose it.   Hmmm...

    PDA/palmtop in a PADD I can see, but I really don't think I'd want to use a Klingon gadget as a mouse.    Now a Klingon PADD PDA/palmtop with a bluetooth link to a Klingon combadge/communicator cell phone acting as a wireless modem would be about all I could hope for in life.   

    ... As far as gadgets go...

[KAllen]

I saw on ebay somebody who took a bluetooth attachement and used it as the insides of a TOS comm.  That could be one way you can incorperate the comm badge into an existing phone.

Better than having it around your ear looking like a Borg!!!  Thats what I call those earphones...Borg implants.

[qarSuv]

K'Allen, loD <man>... ROFL, that was Funny.

As far as the other stuff, yes, of course the badge could act as the internet link; I just thought the PDAs already had that incorporated.

Also, I'm seeing it an a clamshell, as I wrote at the top, with an "answer/activate" button on the outside for "communicator" functioning. Maybe a hidden camera lens if you're IS   You could voice dial your contacts with it closed like that. But when you open the clamshell, you can have keys and a screen that would stay nicely hidden by the top when the device is closed. If you need higher functions or privacy, you just take it off your sleeve/belt and use it as a "normal" cell phone.

Any materials, programming ideas?