Jailbreaking your iPhone is the norm nowadays. I’m pretty sure no one with an iPhone would be caught dead without some sort of third-party application installed. If you’re a fan of keeping it simple or kicking it old school, check out iDial, a rotary phone application for Apple’s Jesus Phone.
Add it to your iPhone and you’ll be able to relive the 1950s all over again. Dial a 4 with an exhilarating swipe of a finger. Fun. Just don’t try dialing whilst riding your bicycle.
These creepy sheep are part of an art installation in Creepsville. If you take a closer look, you’ll see the head of each animal has been replaced with a rotary phone circa 1955. Their legs are made up of handsets and the wool is actually a bunch of intertwined phone cords. Who knew such a piece of shit could become a fully-fledged work of art?
While there have been attempts to bring the rotary phone into the modern age, and even attempts at retaining the rotary dial design as fashionable, none has been successful at making a rebirth of the device which used to be the norm. The Port-O-Rotary adds in SIM card capability, allowing you to bring your clunky rotary phone on the road.
Maintaining the retro feel was important, so the Port-O-Phone still rings like a normal rotary, and even features a dial-tone, despite its cellular support for 900MHz, 1800MHz, or 1900MHz frequencies. Get yours for $249.95. (more…)
Us nerds are always on the look out for funky new watches to don on our wrists. This Zihotech Showa Wrist Watch is no different. Designed to look like an old time telephone, the retro-themed watch will be sure to draw attention to your overused wrist.
The watch tells time like no other. To hear what time it is, you must dial 117 on the rotary style keys, at which point, a voice speaks from the speaker in the center of the watch, dictating the time. If you ring a wrong number, the oh-so-familiar voice clocks in giving the spiel, “We’re sorry, the number you have dialed can not be reached at this time…” Available now for $52. — Andrew Dobrow
