WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.

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 ...

As wonderful as mechanical keyboards are, most of the pre-fab and group buy models out there have zero media controls. If you want rotary encoders and OLED screens to show what function layer you’re ...

Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that ...

Ring, ring — your childhood is calling! On Tuesday, Fisher-Price unveiled its newest project: the relaunch of its Chatter Telephone. In honor of the iconic toy's 60th anniversary, the brand is selling ...

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 ...

Justine Haupt is the owner of her own open-source hardware company as well as a developer of astronomy instrumentation at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She’s also pretty disillusioned with modern ...