The more glass we punch with our fingertips, the more we miss fun physical interfaces like the rotary phone. Sure, they took forever to dial, and you did not want to be one of those kids stuck with ...

There’s something so nostalgic about the rotary phone that makes it a fun thing to hack and modernize. [Voidon] put his skills to the test and converted one to VoIP using a Raspberry Pi. He used the ...

That's the D-122 KXT-41 Tone Dialer. It costs less than $6. Why am I devoting service space to this product? Read on... On the independently-owned and run Vonage Forum, I've run across a fascinating ...

Industrial designer Jin Le predicts that in five years, people will be sick of ultra-tiny mobile phones and will want to return to the rotary-dial designs of yesteryear. So she cooked up this design, ...

WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.

Skilled maker Justine Haupt has created a fantastically unique mobile phone complete with the paper display and rotary dial. The mobile phone is open source and all the design files including Arduino ...

That takes old-school to a new level. A space engineer who despises smartphones and text messaging built her own cell phone -- and it has a rotary dial. Justine Haupt, 34, spent three years creating ...

My kids are mesmerized by a rotary phone. We bought the cream-colored 1970s model a couple weeks ago from Goodwill for $4.99. My son was asked to bring an old electric appliance to Camp Invention, and ...

After designing and building a cellphone with a rotary dial and an intentionally limited feature set last year, engineer Justine Haupt started selling a basic kit for under $100 last June, but ...

WTF?! Not everyone is a lover of modern smartphones, longing instead for the days when phones came with rotary dials. A space engineer who hates today's gadgets has taken a stand against texting by ...

WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.

WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.