Business - Written Tuesday, October 7, 2008 by Jeff DeChambeau - 2 Comments

If only my phone could do this..

I did not notice, but the Gmail settings page now has a “labs” tab. Labs, in the tradition of Google, are projects that are ready for public use, but not really ready to be full fleged Google applications. In Gmail, though, the labs applications seem to be roughly analogous to Firefox add-ons: applications that add small, specific bits of functionality.

With that background, I present The Google Goggles. Most of us have been on the receiving-end of a drunk-dialed phonecall, drunk-mailed email, or worse, a drunk-posted blog post. Mail Goggles aims to save us from sending drunk-mails of our own. The application is set to be active at certain times, like between midnight and 6am on Saturday and Sunday mornings. While active, any emails you try to send are held until you successfully answer some simple math questions. If you’re too loaded to answer, the email is stored until you have a chance to re-read it later, and maybe change your mind about sending it. Continue…