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Everyone's phone is smaller than mine! God, it gets on my
nerves. This guy I know has a phone that's about the size of a
matchbox and it looks like David Bowie's codpiece. I can't win
at this game. What I want is a cell phone that's big and black
with a rotary dial and full sized handset. It'd
have a full throaty
ring (with a real bell) and then I could whip the handset out
of my bag (it'd have a one of those long springy chords) and
show that small phone bastard who's the boss.
You could also move a phone like this all over your house (hell
the world) without messing with cable or ruining you decor.
Retro Cell Phone
http://www.halfbake...etro_20Cell_20Phone
Interestingly enough, even my annotation is not original. [centauri, Feb 19 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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How about a somewhat-bulky phone with modern electronics and a really huge (by modern standards) battery? It would be nice to have a phone that could run for a few months or years on a charge. |
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Funny, I was just thinking how neat it would be to have a phone that looks like those field radios the Army uses to call in airstrikes. If you could have a backpack with a big floppy antenna on it, you'd have the perfect outfit. |
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By the way, how hard would it be to convert Teddy Ruxpin into a voice-activated cell phone? |
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<grin!> "Mommy, why is he talking into that teddybear's crotch?" |
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More seriously, though, I might actually buy one then... |
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"And while we're at it, why not a shoe phone like in Get Smart?" --rmutt, Mar 24 2000 |
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>>http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Star_20Treck_20comunicator<< |
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Hey centauri, I think they do make those army field radios still. I'm not sure if they double as cellphones though. I know you can get them as radios. But with a little ingenuity, you can hook up anything to anything. Its turning it on and not taking out California's paltry power supply that will be the challenge... |
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// except the posh kids who’s parents had trim phones // |
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Presumably you know about this because the posh kids taunted you with it while they threw dry crusts and potato peelings over the barbed wire into your ghetto. |
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// phones that only exist in films such as the sort you pick up the mouthpiece and put the candlestick next to your ear. // |
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That's Groucho Marx. The sort where you talk into the candlestick bit and put the other bit to your ear really exist. |
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// the sort of phones they must’ve had in the ancient Egyptian, lower Roman or pre-Pythogarian days. // |
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Unfortunately they didn't pay the bills, and the Reticulants came and took them out. |
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You were right the first time. Ever wondered about all those deep rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings ? Bomb shelters, every one of 'em. |
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Those Reticulants don't mess about. When they Send The Boys
Round, their idea of Tooled Up starts with moderate yield nukes and goes up from there. |
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The Maya got carpet-bombed because they complained about the poor broadband service. Don't mess with those little silver-grey bastards, they're poison, they really are. |
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Widely known to be baked among electronics hobbyists.
Search for Port-O-Rotary. |
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