This surely must exist, but I've honestly never seen it. We've all put our phones on silent and then forgot about it. Or perhaps more poignantly, we've all tried to call someone who accidentally left their phone on silent. And sometimes that person is the couch hiding our phones in it's cushions. If there was a timer option, we could just wait a few hours until it switched back to loud mode and then call it again to find it.
Have you ever been in a speech or something where the speaker fields questions from the audience? If you weren't in a UN-style microphone-at-every-seat equipped room, then you probably saw one or two saps running the microphone around to those asking questions. I was this sap recently in a press conference, and although I consider myself quite agile, it still delayed things and was noisy for the cameras (not to mention my beautimous profile when I had to run in front of them). I've also heard people bragging about shot-gun mics that can pick up someone's voice leagues away. Couldn't these work in this situation, where the sap can just stand at the front with headphones on and point the mic at whoever is talking? Maybe it wouldn't work so well in a football stadium, but surely a 20-person press conference could manage. Right?
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