EVER HAD A FEW too many and clicked "send to all" on a tasteless email which is quickly winging its way to your boss, your mum and possibly even your grandparents? You need Google Goggles.

That situation, or something rather similar has been faced by many of us at some point - you get slightly inebriated and decide that it's a good idea to start sending emails.

So some bright spark at Google has obviously had some experience in drunken emailing as the search giant's email service Gmail has come up with "Google Goggles."

When this service is enabled it will throw a set of five maths problems up on your screen at the point you click "send" - the countdown then begins as you have a limited time to answer.

The default time for Mail Goggles will be between 10pm and 4am on Friday and Saturday, so make sure you're not out boozing during the week or you might not get your invoice sent on time.

If you are of sound enough mind to answer these problems then the message is sent, the opposite scenario is obvious.

However, if by some feat of genius you can still answer the questions even though there are three screens spinning in front of you, then you can up the difficulty of the questions.

This service won't be for everyone, but we're sure many out there are breathing a huge sigh of relief. µ

L'Inq
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