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The best of Google Labs

2008-12-19 11:01:00

Check out what Googleplex boffins have been up to


One of the more novel apps recently seen in Google Labs is Mail Goggles, an application designed to stop you sending e-mail that maybe you shouldn't.

If, for example, you set the application up to work on a Friday night--when many people have had a few drinks--it will ask you several maths questions before letting you send the message.

The aim of the app is to make sure you're thinking clearly enough to send the e-mail and thus prevent any drunken missives reaching bosses and ex-loves only to be regretted in the sober light of the next day.

Credit: Google