(July 2, 2017 at 4:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Probably not unprecedented, but when I wired a house many years ago, I put in a couple plugins around the place that came on when the doorbell or phone rang. The occupant was quite hard of hearing and loved the feature. People don't press doorbell buttons the same way phones ring, so he could always tell what was up when the lamps came on...
To expand on that; why don't telephones have a flashing light so deaf people know when the phone's ringing?
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.