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  • uh...this seems like a dumb idea that would take quite a bit of power to make a "virtual ball" as the feedback. this might work for blind people if there were no visual inputs to the smartphone, but what about SMS? it would be better to invent something like the project I want to start which is a braille feedback on the phone's surface for reading SMS messages.

  • Why... because today there isn't jangling there is vibration absolutely no point

  • Stroker language? Doesn't every guy already know this language well without the use of extra jingling electronic balls? lol

  • Is this only for faggots? I can't see why it wouldn't be.

  • Good for blind people perhaps.. For normal uses the novelty would wear off fast.

  • he's obviosly going upstairs to see his boyfriend!!! duh

  • That mans got a boner from his brick I mean phone in his pocket.

  • at :57 does this douche narrator say TOMBRA instead of TIMBRE? wtff

  • @lordcliffton That's how 'timbre' is pronounced in england.

  • Pause 1:13

  • i saw exploding cows, how did i end up here?

  • What was it good for again ? Didnt catch that .

  • Im amazed that guy got a message that was not from his mom.

  • My own balls make the very same sound all the time

  • i don't understand what they accomplished by making this?

  • now that is one gay faggot

  • You could kill it D:

  • very nice for those who are blind

  • lol who walks up the stairs like that?

  • Wait? Isn't his called an iphone?

  • LOL BALLS

    

  • This is totally pointless and really time consuming in comparison to the standard today...

  • a sound playing for different emails is alot easier than having to jingle the thing. How do you know when to jingle it?

  • @spektralkusk

    Haha BALLS

  • Man, you'd have to be pretty busy if you don't have time to look at the phone to see if you have any messages...

  • Lol simulated balls.

  • stupid idea

  • Greets #UN#!

    I just found this offer here ***bit . ly / mobilep*** You can earn some money with ur cellphone!

  • There are some interesting ideas in there. What's with the gay moves though?

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  • what kind of phone was that? looks like something from the early nineties, its bloody massive,

  • a simple ding ding is annoying enough by people sending a few spam messages at once, imagine this keep ding ding dong dong all the way you wiggle your balls at the stairs

  • i want one lol

  • 1:05 soooo gay lmao!

  • this is really dumb.

  • what a bad idea!!!!

  • Biggest waste ever

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  • 1:10 You walk like shit man

  • Can they make this into an iPhone app?

  • yes a want a phone in my pocket that sounds like a badass keychain, yes i do!

    no wait i don't.

  • I like this IDEA.

  • The battery fuel is something I would really like, not sure about keys jingling. I find REAL keys and coins jingling annoying enough

  • I like the liquid battery meter :)

  • this thing doesnt suck. this stuff would be useful on a phone so it would be easier to use your phone without interupting. people would hear keys clinging but wouldn't think much. phone starts ringing, then it would be considered annoying.

  • u would sound like cow cattle if u took this cell in to the streets XD

  • this thing sucks !!!

  • lol fail

  • why not just look at your battery meter

  • @twentydashone

    because its too fast and boring....

  • how do you define "not real" ?? apps like this on the iphone ain't there?

    every day its more like THIS is the matrix or something, like really, im not joking anymore...

  • are you high ?

  • i think this idea is cool! all they got to do is make the phone more sensitive and this app has got it made!

  • yeah man its not real.....

  • this is fake... its not even real

  • this is fake... it's not even real??? r u fucking kidding me???

  • hey i have no idea whats wrong with you guys and your "i hate this idea its crap" comments but you need to get over it. id just like to see YOU try and make something like this! you guys show no respect for creativity and/or determination. you all need to be proud of what these people have created because it took them quite some time to make it! if there is ANYONE out there who understands me thank you for doing so.

  • I understand, too many 13 year old idiots here though. It's great that science attracts them but they need to learn how to appreciate innovations.

  • The thing is about this invention is(take this as constructive criticism) It is totally pointless and anyone who wants jingly balls can have those of the guy in this video. peace

  • the guy wakls like a fag when he is going up the stairs

  • @CLOFS maybe he's a fag...

  • @misbooon ewewewqqewewewewewewew

  • @CLOFS

    even when he's on the floor

  • that is the most useless invention I have ever seen lol

  • ???

  • omg??? SO STUPID

  • its cool but i wouldn't program the phone to sound like keys because then you will never get your message

  • this is the stupidest fucking program ever written

  • Yeah i agree it feels like a step down :( Im sorry but this is completely useless and a waste of all our time...

  • unless i'm just not getting it, this seems like to much work when i could just easly touch a button to see battery life and put my messages on hold. i just simply don't get and i wonder what the general public feels as well. further moore where is this going to go in the future??

  • deaf people

  • i don't see how this would benifit deaf people. you can allready see all of things that you need... and most phones vibrate when an incoming text accoures. and y would this bennifit deaf people when there are key sounds and things like that????

  • It's the new iBrick

  • wow...this feels like a step down O__O

    id rather put a real bell in my phone and have a small motor to tighten up the metal that the ball hits inside. thus producing different pitches. i could program the motor to tighten the metal to different degrees depending on what the phone recieves ie text.

    but all this is still FUCKING POINTLESS!! >=(

  • Hey, I like the idea =)

    But having the device continually poll an accelerometer and perform the math needed for this all the time might be quite bad on the battery.

    Maybe someday....

  • sickkk.

  • so its just like a ring tone then. BUT you have to check if you have a text insted of it just playing a song lol

  • that is fucking awsome

  • i prefere an ipod iphone touch

  • I want it.

  • er um ..

    what ??!

  • Go back to 2nd grade english, then repost..........

  • love the name

  • This seems like it could be very useful for blind people.

  • simulated balls i loled

  • looks annoying.

  • Cool! :)

  • where do i find it for windows mobile

  • dose anybody know how power intensive something like this would be? so unpractical...

  • lol you have no idea bout its power consumption

  • haha at least it tells you when it has wasted all of it's power

  • idiot

  • Why does that guy walk so fucking gay up the stairs?

  • he thinks hes the next top model =P

  • That comment cracked my girlfriend up, LOL!

  • @Johnny89Applez

    Because when he goes upstairs, he shakes his hips, to shake the phone and send the message.

  • @Johnny89Applez he shoved his shakeable phone up his arse to see could he hear it

  • @Johnny89Applez hes got a blackberry shoved up his ass...

  • @Johnny89Applez then how do you walk like? a retard on meth?

  • @tandis97 Out of all the replies I've gotten in the two years I posted my comment. Yours is the absolute worst. It need no further description other then that to describe how lame it is. Congrats on being #1 in a two year span of comments.

  • @Johnny89Applez :D just joking dude

  • This channel has some lame videos.

  • ghey

  • i wouldn't really like this to be on the market... i love my ringtones too much =(

  • this would be a cool app for iphone or ipod touch

  • if i had this in my pocket all day the shaking would get realy annoying

  • Sounds like he has a wind chime in his pocket.

  • they can do something big with this technology they've developed, in my opinion though, they're not on the right track at the moment.

  • wow i need more bigger balls

  • 1:05 he walks GAY

  • NizzBomb69 : If that stereotype is true, you should have a Made In Japan sticker on you.

  • for sum reason i have a feeling this is one of those things thatll actually 'catch on'

  • the liquid battery thing was awesome!

  • that sounds good for idiots who are too lazy to even read whats on the screen..

  • ummm...i duno, i still expect a cell phone to ring... i wouldnt want to shake my cell phone around just to know things...

  • omg this will be so annoying

  • yeah! Imagine a large group of people in the subway.. shaking their cell phones 0_0 aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

  • HA HA DA BATERY PRT SAUNDS FUNY

  • thats amazing but yeah,

    thatd get annoying too.

  • the battery part was the coolest!

  • Cool!

  • that is bad ass

  • oh so cool :D

  • the iphone killer

  • a little bit gimmicky but the battery sensor is soem thing cool which i would want on my phone...

  • get an app like this on the iPhone, i bet it's possible!

  • iphone sucks, seriously get a pocketpc, less cost better device.

  • htc touch diamond is very nice.. =)

  • thats awesome!!

  • revolutionary verry cool

  • Hey, it would be a good interface for the blind...

  • Extremely useful in games... I can imagine hundreds of games that would be great with that technology...

  • name one

  • wem.... snake??...???

  • No idea what "Werm" is, but SNake would not work. Its way too fast and Shoogle is way too slow.

    The only kind of game that would be any use is some kind of balancing game, but you would soon get bored with it. Complete crap so it is.

  • k. u win. idk what wem is either. must have been on drugz at the time

  • ? Now Im just confused. I reckon you are on drugs now.

    Can I have some?

  • Drugs are bad, go have sex

  • Whats wrong with both.

  • Alcohol is ok, everything stronger mmmmm nooo :>

  • that is coooool

  • the guy walks funny...

  • You're right.

  • Anbody know the guys name ? He looks seriously familiar but I just can't place him. This idea is fairly pointless as there are very few practical uses for it. My phone beeps or vibes when I get a msg and warns me if the batt is low.

  • so useless...

  • why not just get a real phone, it's much more practicle and less confusing than that =p

  • that is completely useless, why no spend your time and money on something usefull

  • never heard of Shoogle before... guess their ideas are why :)

  • sounds like a ball in a steel box

  • ..Weve really run out of ideas..havent we..lol.

  • meh...

  • NICE CROTCH SHOT

  • like the bottled liquid sound idea for the power remaining

    awesome!

  • thats awesome!!

  • Awesomely useless

  • nothing more than a gimmick. if you can shake the damn thing, you can look at it.

  • Sounds like the inside is all fcuked up.

    Will it blend? Sounds like it already has.

    PS - If THAT'S a cellphone, I'm a blue-arsed baboon.

  • ....Its a cell phone then

  • I'm a baboon, then

  • Need more cowbell.

  • So can the user shape the device to choose between all these responses to shaking the device? :)

  • To me this dont seem very high tech.If your going to pick up a phone an shake it you can pick it up and answer the phone.I agree for the Blind it seems like it could benefit them !

  • Do you know what nokias have accel[something]meters?;]

  • hmm I don't think this is a good idea, because motion sensors probably use too much power.

  • this is really good idea.. Blind people could use it .. and it could seriously be like.. big.. I would buy one just for that feature... but it needs to come in small.. cos it looks huge!

  • My pocket makes enough noise with coins and keys making noise when I walk. Adding this cowbell software would only make it worse.

    Can you turn off the noise and only use vibrate mode patterns?

  • I would hope so.

  • I heard Sony Ericsson's trying to get that implemented into their phones for changing mp3 tracks when listening.

  • It's already there.

  • How about for blind people?

    -response to micky2500

  • just wondering how blind people would benefit from this? lol maybe for a ringtone thing but a sms? lol

  • The thing that I was thinking about was the ringtone would be like the bubbles that the videos mention and the water idea would only be used when the battery got low to almost dead.

    -response to Angel7081

  • yeah statboy i see you point now. it would come in handy for blind people to know when there battry is low

  • ONLY SOLD TO FEMALES I HOPE!

  • Maybe for Blind people.

  • That's really cool.

  • Wow I can't eve