The iChime offers customized doorbells for the cheap and obnoxious
It seemed funny at the time, replacing our innocuous door bell chime with Anita Ward's 70's disco rendition of "Ring My Bell." The first time the UPS guy came to the door, it even elicited a laugh from my girlfriend. But then I began opening the door and jamming the bell with my thumb whenever I wanted to get intimate. A starter horn, if you will. This also seemed to go over well. Months passed. It became part of our coital routine. One day, I came home to see a long line of UPS men waiting in front of my apartment; each would walk up to the door, push the bell gingerly and drop his trousers around his ankles as the slender forearms of my girlfriend yanked him inside.
It appears that a novelty doorbell, no matter how well intentioned, can act as a psychological conditioning device. And, as my little anecdote should make abundantly clear, the novelty doorbell is a technology pretty much solely aimed at douches, much like "Who Let The Dogz Out?" answering machine tapes. Still, if you're okay with that, the iChime will allow you to replace your doorbell with a programmable assortment of MP3s using the headphone jack from your iPod. It costs $90.
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