Many laptops eschew the numeric keypad to free up space, and some desktop keyboards have taken on the trend, too. If you want a specialised numeric entry device and have absolutely no interest in ...

Today in old school nostalgia our tipster [Clint Jay] wrote in to let us know about this rotary dial. If you’re a young whippersnapper you might never have seen a rotary dial. These things were ...

Here’s another retro-themed gadget for today, the Portable Bluetooth Rotary Phone. The Portable Bluetooth Rotary Phone is an ideal accessory for any retro geek’s desk, and you can use it with your ...

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 ...

Welcome to the Bored Programmer series, where we celebrate wonderfully useless inventions produced by great minds burdened by the bliss of boredom. You’ve never seen a rotary phone like that. A ...

WTF?! Not everyone is a lover of modern smartphones, longing instead for the days when phones came with rotary dials. A space engineer who hates today's gadgets has taken a stand against texting by ...