{"id":8699,"date":"2005-12-02T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2005-12-02T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T12:11:06","slug":"and-you-thought-ringtones-were-obnoxious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8699","title":{"rendered":"And you thought ringtones were obnoxious&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had your fill of celebrity ringtones, &#8220;moantones&#8221; (ringtones from pornstars), and music clips from already overplayed pop songs? This same sorta noise pollution is coming soon to a car navigation system near you. NavTones, a California company, has hired the likes of Mr. T, Burt Reynolds, and Dennis Hopper to record navigation commands (wow, talk about your celebrity A-list). And you thought the voice of that disembodied Stepford Wife that can currently be heard in a lot of car nav systems was creepy and quickly annoying. <\/p>\n<p> A little more to our liking is TomTom, another personal nav company, that has hired John Cleese to do various characters, including a New York cabbie and a Freudian analyst. That&#8217;d definitely be entertaining&#8230; for what? A day? One trip across town? <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I pitty the fool who pays actual money for infotainment this lame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2005\/11\/22\/Autos\/funonwheels\/celebrity_nav\/index.htm\" target=\"new\">CNNMoney<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, Jay!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had your fill of celebrity ringtones, &#8220;moantones&#8221; (ringtones from pornstars), and music clips from already overplayed pop songs? This same sorta noise pollution is coming soon to a car navigation system near you. NavTones, a California company, has hired the likes of Mr. T, Burt Reynolds, and Dennis Hopper to record navigation commands (wow, talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And you thought ringtones were obnoxious&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}