Drunk mode for smartphone prevents embarrassing text messages

A new drunk mode can prevent you from using your smartphone for typically embarrassing drunken purposes.

A relatively unknown smartphone brand recently patents a brilliant invention. The drunk mode prevents a drunk from using his smartphone for embarrassing purposes. This changes the smartphone into Fort Knox and you can leave the path without any worries. The next morning all you have to do is pass a sobriety test and everything will be back to normal. That is how it works.

Drunk mode for smartphone

If you’re going out for a night, an already patented drunk mode can save you all kinds of embarrassing moments by locking your smartphone. The Chinese manufacturer Gree Electronics came up with the concept and wants to bake it into their smartphones, MyDrivers reports (via AndroidAuthority).

It works as follows:

• Determine the rules for the drunk mode and choose which smartphone functions are blocked.
• Before you go, turn on the mode. Do not forget!
• Once back on Earth, you can take a sobriety test before the mode is turned off again.

Those ‘rules’ can save your social life considerably. Take WhatsApp for example; people rarely send useful text messages when they are drunk. In that case, your ex will also be exceptionally happy with the drunk mode. The user interface would also be simplified.

It’s not entirely clear how deep the mode goes. For example, could you only block sensitive numbers (those of your boss, your ex, your mother-in-law)? The medium suggests a feature where your smartphone shows contact details on the home screen. If you ‘get lost’, rescuers can easily roll you home.

On the other hand, you must of course always be able to call the emergency number. And while horrific selfies are inevitable, your camera should keep working for any funny moments.

In practice it will not really matter to us how it works; the Chinese brand is quite unknown and the feature doesn’t seem to come to us anytime soon. Fortunately, there are some apps that provide a similar service. Still, it would secretly be very cool if Western manufacturers (or even Google’s Android) implement the feature to avoid embarrassing moments. Or you drink a Coke, then you don’t need any software at all, of course!