Sunday, December 10th 2006
Cisco puts Santa on their payroll, who calls kids in hospitals using video phones
Cisco has started a large campaign to put video phones into hospitals. What is so special about these video phones though, is that they have a direct button that calls Santa Claus. This means that children who want to talk to Santa, but can't get out of the hospital to visit him, need not go much farther then their room to call Santa Claus and have a video chat with him. Cisco posted a video of it's technology in action here.
Source:
The Register
10 Comments on Cisco puts Santa on their payroll, who calls kids in hospitals using video phones
*ring ring ring* Hohoho, Santa is busy at the moment, please hold. * jingle bells jingle bells jingle bells rock* Hohoho, we value your belief in Santa, but he is still busy at the moment *20 mins later* Hohoho, we are sorry to inform you, but your time window of 25 minutes has passed. There is no Santa kids, Merry Christmass! *phone goes beeeeeeeeeeep, as does the heart rate monitor* :shadedshu
the world sucks if there is no santa:p
2./ What a great way to install THIER system in hospitals. Most governing boards of hospitals are IT noobs, and probably haven't even heard of cisco or competing brands. This way, they get known fast to these people
3./ OUCH, did someone say 1-900 or premium call line? Are YOU the parent that denies their sick child access to the call-per-minute lines from a hospital? Hospital fees are high enough without this! OUCH