The 1970s called and they want their rotary dial cell phone back. Looking for all the world like something assembled from the Radio Shack parts department – remember when Radio Shack sold parts? – [Mr ...

If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re the family IT department. We do what we can to help them, but there’s just no changing the fact that smartphones are difficult to operate with ...

Recently I called a local company and was startled to hear voice mail begin with this once-familiar phrase: “If you have a touch-tone phone, press 1 now.” Years ago, you’d hear that phrase all the ...

There are moments in our shared histories that help us realize how far technology has advanced in a relatively short amount of time. A viral video originating from Orland Park may be one of those ...

Telephones got their start in the late nineteenth century, connected through exchanges. In the early twentieth century, however, Bell introduced a new dial system, and needed to tell callers how to ...

A wind phone is a disconnected rotary phone that gives people the space to say the things they didn’t get to share with their departed loved ones. The first wind phone was created in Japan by Itaru ...