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Day: January 21, 2005

Rotary Cell Phone

January 21, 2005 by Jason Striegel 26 Comments

rotary cell phone

somebody over at spark fun decided that those 1980s zach morris cell phones just weren’t retro-cool enough.  keith swett sent us the link to this hack which involves retrofitting an old 1950s at&t rotary phone with modern day tri-band cell hardware.

make sure to turn it off when you are in the theatre.

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