The Finite Times

Manhattan, New York (FiniteTimes.com) – While court-watchers were not surprised when Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty to beaning her maid in the head with a BlackBerry last March, the sentence she received for her perfect pitch left many scratching their heads.

“In addition to restitution, community service and anger management classes, Ms. Campbell is hereby assigned the task of funding research into high-velocity hand-held projectile warning systems,” said a court aide. “Next time she cocks back to hurl her phone at a maid, the judge just wants the maid to have a little heads-up.”

Campbell will be working with Motorola to develop the warning system, which will use GPS technology to constantly monitor the position of a phone or similar object in space. If a phone’s position changes too rapidly, the system sees this as a sign that the phone has been thrown and will issue a warning sound. A number of different tones are currently in development, from a traditional high pitched “Beep! Beep! Beep!” to a more situation-specific “Duck! Duck! Duck!”

Naomi Campbell Flingtones should be available for use with most cellular phones by this summer.

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