Purposely choosing obsoleted technology combines all the joy of simpler times with the comfort of knowing you’re not actually stuck with outdated (and oftentimes inferior) technology. The rotary phone ...

We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that We've all been there: A meeting goes sideways and you really wish you could physically ...

This puzzled me. This instruction might have been necessary decades ago, when the telephonic ecosystem was shifting from dialing to touch tone, but surely it is unneeded these days because all phones ...

UPTON, N.Y. (TEGNA) — A space engineer is so against smart phones, 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 ...

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.