If you could talk to a loved one who died, what would you say? Would you tell them they’re missed? Would you talk about the vagaries of your day? Would you recall your lives together?

An engineer has created a working cell phone that includes a rotary dial instead of a display. It’s available for $240, though you’ll have to build it yourself.

In the end, the teens gave up, conceding that some things were beyond the grasp of their modern understanding. Final score: ...

As spotted by Hackaday, Jouke Waleson has had an old Dutch rotary phone called "1950" for 15 years and, over the last few weeks, has turned it into a functioning Bluetooth headset.In their blog ...

Growing up with rotary phones and VHS tapes, we often had to be resourceful and innovative. If your VHS tape got stuck, you couldn’t just call customer support or look up a solution online.

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After a tsunami killed more than 15,000 people in 2011, Sasaki opened the wind telephone to the public. It has been visited by 30,000 people, sparking a book, two films and hundreds of other wind ...

However, Mathews seemed to stump the Gen Zers when he pulled out a rotary phone and asked them to dial 411. “So, I know you go one way. I think I was shown one time,” one of them said.

The rotary phones are modeled after the first one built in Japan in 2011. Some 2.8 million New York residents 12 years and older have a substance abuse disorder, according to a 2023 state report.

A Connecticut church has found a creative approach to help grieving people talk about their loss. It's called a "wind phone" and it's a place to say what you want to say to the people you've lost.