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[abootstrapper]

Anyone remember the TV show Fringe? I seem to remember them using science fiction tech like that. Life imitates art.

[JetSpiegel → abootstrapper]

It was capturing telephone touch tones on a plate of glass.

Olivia's smartphone could dial based on touch tones, that's totally sci fi these days.

[adrianhel → JetSpiegel]

Dialing back based on tones is not sci fi at all. The glass thing is sci fi though. Good stuff!

[JetSpiegel → adrianhel]

In the show, Olivia remembers those tones and happens to have an app for that on her smartphone, Walter doesn't make that leap.

I found some applications on the Play Store that can allegedly decode the tones, so it might not be so strange.