We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting ...

The fully functional Chatter Telephone is available on Best Buy's website for a limited time Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand ...

One of the useful side effects of the ubiquitous availability of cellular network data modules is that they can be used to create custom mobile phones. It’s surprising in a way that we don’t see as ...

A few years ago Justine Haupt combined classic phone design and modern tech to create a working cellphone with a rotary dial. Later she began selling kits to folks who wanted to make their own. Soon a ...

A few years ago Justine Haupt combined classic phone design and modern tech to create a working cellphone with a rotary dial. Later she began selling kits to folks who wanted to make their own. Soon a ...

You can use an old rotary telephone dialer in conjunction with your microcontroller to implement all sorts of things; for example, you could use it to enter a series of numbers to unlock a safe. You ...

Jose Lopez of Cohoes felt powerless to help his grandmother during Hurricane Fiona, but he knows she's alive because she can talk on her old-style phone Adelaide Gonzalez, left, poses with a family ...

How many of you my age or younger know what a rotary dial phone is? A what? A rotary dial phone. I’m not so much referring to the classic Fisher Price toy that your nephew just got for his first ...

My kids are mesmerized by a rotary phone. We bought the cream-colored 1970s model a couple weeks ago from Goodwill for $4.99. My son was asked to bring an old electric appliance to Camp Invention, and ...

Almost accidentally, we have a new addition to our living room décor that has prompted much conversation among our friends. In July, we made a trip to Monroe to visit friends who took us to all sorts ...