Enginner Creates a Novel Cellphone With a Rotary Dial
Engineer Justine Haupt of the Cosmology Instrumentation Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory has created an incredibly novel cellphone that uses a rotary dial. The dial came from a classic Trimline telephone while the body was built with an Arduino interface and Adafruit parts.
Haupt stated that she built this to be her primary phone so that she wouldn't be distracted by the bells and whistles of far more modern touch screen smartphones.
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