Welcome to the Bored Programmer series, where we celebrate wonderfully useless inventions produced by great minds burdened by the bliss of boredom. You’ve never seen a rotary phone like that. A ...

As wonderful as mechanical keyboards are, most of the pre-fab and group buy models out there have zero media controls. If you want rotary encoders and OLED screens to show what function layer you’re ...

The fully functional Chatter Telephone is available on Best Buy's website for a limited time Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand ...

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 ...

Nobody has ever wished that Twitter's 140-character limit were even stricter, but then, nobody before had ever tried Tweeting from an old-school rotary-dial phone. Enter Tweephone, a phone that will ...

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.

A space engineer who despises smartphone culture and modern devices has built her own mobile phone from scratch, featuring a working rotary dial. The antiquated keypad is encased in an aquamarine case ...

Hello operator Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? So sang Jack White, of the quite excellent White Stripes. Little did he know that barely 11 years after ...

Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If you’re a young whippersnapper you might never have seen a rotary dial. These things were ...

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.