CnnMoney wrote:California company NavTones has contracted with Mr. T and the actors Burt Reynolds and Dennis Hopper to record voices that can be loaded into navigation systems, giving your driving directions a little extra personality. More voices are coming, the company said.
Another company, TomTom, offers John Cleese's voice along with several "fictional" characters that include a New York City cab driver and a Freudian psychoanalyst.
Ok enough Mr T jokes for now. Who would acutaly buy this? (Assuming you had a GPS system)
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
Dennis Hopper should ramble like his American photojournalist character in Apocalypse Now.
"This is the way the fucking world ends. Look at this fucking shit we're in man. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. And with a whimper, you need to fucking turn left, Jack."
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Utsanomiko wrote:I'd want the voice of Bill Paxton or James Woods.
John Cleese is pretty good too, though.
Mayabird is my girlfriend
Justice League:BotM:MM:SDnet City Watch:Cybertron's Finest "Well then, science is bullshit. "
-revprez, with yet another brilliant rebuttal.
It's kinda fun, though the review sounds like it has more of a problem with the nav system, rather than the voice. It's reasonable to expect Mr. T to get angry at you if you decided not to follow his instructions, but if the system doesn't alert you to that fact, well... there's not much a third party can do, now is there?
I see this as an excellent source of free money for the washed up, or B-Line movie stars. Bruce Cambel for one, perfect job for him inbetween pimping the evil dead video games and getting walk ons he could get some extra work as a GPS voice.
But then think of all the stars that could do it.
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
I'd get that, and I don't even have a car. Maybe I'd attach it to my scooter.
"Turn left, sucka!"
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
I'm reminded of that one episode of Family Guy where Peter got the new car with the navigation system that had the "Yakov Smirnof Mode".
I probably wouldn't buy it, because I know I'd just be sick of it within months. Although I can imagine that the makers took that into consideration when designing it, and have some way of combating that.
