Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MENLO PARK, Calif., March 23 (UPI) -- A series of cell phone and e-mail applications offered by U.S. companies Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are designed to prevent users from making drunken mistakes. Google's Official Gmail Blog announced recently that users will be able to install a "Panic Button" that allows them to undo e-mails up to five seconds after they were sent, ABC News reported Monday. Advertisement "This feature can't pull back an e-mail that's already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button," Google user-experience designer Michael Leggett wrote on the blog. Meanwhile, Apple launched an application Wednesday for its popular iPhone called the "Bad Decision Blocker," which allows users to block themselves from sending messages to exes and other possible targets of drunken calls and texts. "It lets you select the person you'd like to block and then set the duration," said Dan Burcaw, chief executive of Double Encore and designer of the application. "It takes that person's e-mail address and phone number out of the address book entirely. It puts it in a secret place that is not readable." Advertisement An earlier iPhone accessory, the iBreath, goes even further to prevent drunken messages by allowing iPhone and iPod users to give themselves a blood-alcohol content breath test.
