Comitora: Simulated Call

A call is something you can step out for. Comitora gives you one, on your own phone, at a time you decide. Well-built old houses had a second door for this. A guest could leave without walking through the whole party. Nobody was offended, nobody had to explain. We do not build those doors any more. Comitora is the second door in a house that no longer has one. HOW IT WORKS You decide beforehand who calls: a name, a picture, a ringtone. Then you pick when — in ten seconds, in ten minutes, in half an hour. The opening screen is built so that this takes under three seconds. At the time you set, the phone rings and the call view fills the screen, with the ringtone you picked. You answer it and take the call, or you let it ring. Nothing is dialled. No number, no connection, no other device. WHAT IT CAN DO The call arrives as an alarm, not as a notification. That is the difference between an…