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 ... finished bringing this old girl into the 21st ...

Dad can add contacts to Rotocell by texting the name and number to it from a modern phone. Once it’s in there, he can dial by name ... Got an old rotary or two lying about?

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends.

A frustrated Justine Haupt came up with an unorthodox solution: she designed and built a mobile phone with a rotary dial that ...

I discovered an old, clunky, black rotary-dial phone. It looked like something out of an ancient past (which, in a way, it is). It was also a trigger, unleashing a flood of memories and a collage ...

Now you have an old school phone, complete with old-school ringer, rotary or push-button dialing, a dial-tone when you pick up the receiver, and even a busy signal. Calls made through POTS (Plain ...

It started with a disconnected phone in a Japanese garden. Now there are hundreds of "wind phones" in the world, including ...

People use the wind phone to “call” and have a one-way conversation with deceased loved ones. Here they can say the things left unsaid. Wind phones offer a setting for the person to tell the story of ...

When Horne was a boy, black-and-white television was the height ... Most homes had one rotary-dial phone, sometimes mounted on a wall. If it was necessary to contact someone when you were out ...

You don’t have to be so honest. Anyway, as an old person I grew up with black and white TV, rabbit ear antennas and black, rotary dial phones, so I am a newbie in the world of modern technology.

Set in 1978 Colorado, The Black Phone watches as the shy 13-year-old Finney Shaw (Thames ... where he discovers a disconnected black rotary phone. Mysteriously, the phone begins to ring, and ...

Then I heard about the wind phone. At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located in a secluded spot in nature, usually within a booth-type structure and often next to a ...