• iPhone Patents Promise to Automate Our Relationships at Last

    By Mark Wilson, 9:10 AM on Thu Jul 2 2009, 22,254 views

    Unwired View uncovered three new iPhone patents that promise to turn everything from calling grandma on her birthday to turning off your phone in a movie theater into gloriously mindless activities.

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    By Mark Wilson
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    iPhone Patents Promise to Automate Our Relationships at Last


    Scheduled Communications
    "A communications device may be programmed to initiate a communications operation when a particular condition is met. The user may set any suitable condition, including for example a date and time, location, event, received or sent communications operation..."
    In other words, automatically email grandma on her birthday, or automatically send your wife a text message when you land in another state "I'm sorry honey, I'm seeing someone else...please pack up my clothing neatly and ship it to me."
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    http://gizmodo.com/5306167/gallery/gallery/1
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