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Soon, your phone might be smarter and more sensitive to other people than you. According to this report, a group is looking into making your phone more sensitive to its environment:

One of the research group’s approaches is to enable mobile phones to ask each other what the best behavior may be for a given situation. That way, even if you forget to switch off your ringer when you sit down in a theater, your phone would wirelessly query the settings of the other handsets in the vicinity.

“If the phones around you are all in silent mode, maybe your phone will take the hint and choose to alert you in a way other than ringing,” Schmandt says.

I hate it when some inconsiderate individual would leave his or her cell phone ringer on inside a theater or church or during a meeting . Worse, sometimes they’d answer it and have a very long conversation in front of everyone. I hope they can find a way to issue an electrical discharge every time they leave the ringer on when it should be off. That’ll learn ya.