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LOOKING for an excuse why you have to break off a phone conversation, can't work today or are going to be horribly late for a meeting?
An enterprising German company has come with a "sound alibi generator" - background noises that can be downloaded on to your cellphone to simulate the place where you are supposed to be.
The selection of nine sounds include a traffic jam, roadworks, a circus parade, a dentist's surgery and the dring of another phone, so that you can get rid of an unwanted caller by telling them you are needed on the landline.
The Munich-based firm, Simeda GmbH, is demonstrating the software on simeda.com.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8934004%255E13762,00.html