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November 22, 2007 6:11 PM PST

All I want for Christmas is this mobile phone jammer

by Matt Asay
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I want one of these. It's a mobile phone jammer that can quiet down that annoying chatterbox next to you on the plane, train, or automobile.

It's on a little black box called a phone jammer. Illegal in this country, the United States and most of the European Union, the basic version costs as little as ?25 in Hong Kong. By sending out a blizzard of radio waves, the cigarette packet-sized gadget will knock out a mobile phone signal within a radius of five to 10 yards. A more expensive version can take out a whole train. Very James Bond.

Give me one now. Please!

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is chief operating officer at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Prior to Canonical, Matt was general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, an open-source applications company. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.
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If people had propers we wouldnt need this device
by R.Jefferson November 22, 2007 9:43 AM PST
A durable looking portable unit runs about $300. That?s a lot of currency for a novelty device.<br /><br />From a googling, there seems to be only two sites I would consider buying from; a UK site and <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.thesignaljammer.com/" target="_newWindow">http://www.thesignaljammer.com/</a><br /><br />The UK site reminds me of boner pill pharma sites. Plus I don?t roll with euros and pounds sterling.<br /><br />The latter claims to be in the US, but I don?t know how they can operate given the nature of the device.<br /><br />If anyone would like to share resources that would be cool.
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It's sad that we would need something like this.
by cyberDJ-2038765336053745013836 November 22, 2007 11:29 AM PST
RJ is right; if people had manners and common sense, this device wouldn't be necessary.<br /><br />Besides, how much radiation does this device emit that allows it to scramble cell phone communications? <br /> <br />The wearer would be at risk just trying to keep self-centered morons from being a nuisance in public.<br /><br />Pass.
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by callagg February 10, 2008 12:55 PM PST
You can get a phone jammer here too<br /><br /><a href="http://www.phonezapper.net"> phone jammer </a>
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by zabrina0922 May 7, 2009 2:02 AM PDT
you can buy one from www.wirelessphonejammer.com cheap and good
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by spytom January 29, 2010 12:40 AM PST
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Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is chief operating officer at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Prior to Canonical, Matt was general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, an open-source applications company. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay.

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