I’m brainstorming ways to alter a digital answering machine so that it can either be used to engage with more modern technologies, or perform some new function that is valuable/interesting/relevant.
Ideas so far:
- Integrate Siri
- Make it reply to my voicemail for me
- Make it alert me when I have a voicemail on my cell phone
- Visual voicemail (Visualize how? Artistic interpretation? Feed digital data to Processing?)
- Find interesting ways to delete messages by connecting sensors/or other input devices to the machine
- Connect it to something else that I want to be able to “answer” my call (turn on the TV, for example)
- Connect it to the internet or my computer with Magic Jack
- Bluetooth connection? Need to research the possibilities more…
- Feed digital data to Arduino to trigger something
- Allow it to broadcast messages left on Twitter or maybe project textual transcriptions into a space?
- Integrate Google Voicecapabilities
- SMS > email > SMS
- Voicemail transcription
- email-able (shareable) voicemail
- “The medium is the message”?
- Alerts every time my question on Stack Overflow is answered
Maybe it doesn’t need to work fully? Maybe it’s just the suggestion of this functionality that’s interesting?