What do antique telephones and dragons have to do with one another? Fuck if I know, but this controller’s design is sporting both. In light of the holiday season, Microsoft has released red and green versions of it’s wireless 360 controller that come packed with a charge kit for $65 bucks, while Walmart is exclusively selling this hideous design bundled with a wired headset for $50.

If you’re a girl, in art school or both then maybe this controller design would appeal to you. As for myself, well, I’d rather fuck a monkey with the Ebola virus than be caught playing games with this thing in my hands.

Link [via]

Apparently, eco-friendly WiFi routers aren’t the only thing D-Link is in to. The FuChat, as it so appropriately named, is a cordless phone capable of making internet and land-line phone calls. That’s not all, this phone also has the function to detect changes of tone in a person’s voice and changes in body temperature, alerting the user of their current emotional state through an emoticon on the phone’s exterior, almost like the Robometer. The phone is made up of biodegradable plastic (that’s good for the environment, folks).

We can only imagine tampering with this phone to make it respond to emotions via audio samples. “You’re being an emotional cunt” and “quit your whining, sissy” are some examples of responses I’d love to see this phone tell its user. Anger management problems? This is the phone for you.
(more…)

Trying to call your female escort to let her know you’ll be late? Use one of these payphones hooked up to the Internet via a PBX system. Probably running Asterisk I’m guessing. Check out photos of the setup after the jump.
(more…)

Hamburger phones, sandwich phones, pig phones, are all edible, or at least look edible.  Breaking the edible theme of telecommunication comes the Beer Bottle phone. Both drinkable and breakable (to an extent) it even has a last number redial button just in case you want to call back your girlfriend who was done talking to you the moment she hung up.

If you had one of these in your room, none of your friends would ever doubt your taste in phones. However, your taste in beer would be in question. For $11.99, you can let all your friends know you like your phones like you like your beer: cheap.

Link (via)

Cellphones are getting so small these days that you totally lose your cool factor by having your phone be so inconspicuous. I, for one, want people to know that I have an awesome phone. If you feel the need to draw some attention to your mobile life, YUBZ has created an old-style telephone receiver to add on to your cellphone.

Effectively, making a wireless device partially wireless defeats the purpose of trying to live a mobile life. But we all know fashion causes pain (see: embarrassment) some times. They don’t say “beauty is pain” for nothing. — Andrew Dobrow

Link [via]

[ev type="youtube" data="dpBgW3FSFdo"][/ev]

Check out this instructional film from around the time when telephones were just beginning to be hand dialed. We’ve come a long way, baby. — Andrew Dobrow

Link