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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remember party lines? Switchboards? Yellow Pages? The traditional telephone is almost gone, but its cultural impact deserves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

April 25 th is National Telephone Day, when the long and storied history of the telephone is celebrated. While it is commonly known that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, the phone ...