Google puts a stop on drunk e-mailing. What about your cell?

On Monday, October 6th, Google Labs launched its new “Mail Goggles” application. It prevents Gmail users from a dangerous phenomenon you may be familiar with: drunk emailing.

The concept is pretty simple: Mail Goggles is only activated late at night on the weekends, “the time you’re most likely to need it.” Once activated, any email you send must be confirmed by solving a few simple math problems, like “7 x 3 = ?” or “8 x 11 = ?” If your answers are incorrect, Gmail prevents you from sending that email.

Pretty cool, right? (Maybe not if you’re in Math 55, when you could probably solve the problems while asleep. Oh well.) What would really be ideal though, is if such a thing as “Text Goggles” or “Call Goggles” existed. A prototype for drunk-dial-prevention cellphones was created by LG in 2006, with its LP4100 series, which had built-in breathalyzers. Classy, right?

The phone, however, was only popular in Korea and seems to be missing from the American market.

Google’s Mail Goggles is still a new application with lots of room for improvement, but why not give it a try anyway? Because really, you don’t need to tell your TF that you are actually, like really, in love with him.