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A friend recently discovered that there are new modems out which
"do voice". I don't mean you can talk over the phone while using
the modem (I think that was a dumb idea). I mean there
are modems which when connected to your computer can digitize
speech and turn digitized speech into sound. So what? Well, it
means you can have your computer answer the phone and act as
an answering machine or turn on the air conditioner or tell you if
you have email. Sounds geeky, I know, but it's just the sort of
application which I love. My next phone will be a computer with
a web server and one of these modems :-)