When young Finney (Mason Thames) is kidnapped by the serial child killer “The Grabber” (Ethan Hawke), he discovers a black rotary phone that will be a very real lifeline, connecting him to the ...

The disconnect button (called a “switchhook”) on the telephone could also be used to send hook flashes—if you wanted to dial 411 without using the rotary, you would tap the switchhook four ...

Whether it's placed on your side table as a charming conversation starter, nestled in a cozy reading nook, or added as a playful twist to the classic landline, the rotary phone is about to make a ...

The old adage ‘Retire without debt’ may be going the way of the electric typewriter and rotary phone. A new analysis from the personal finance site LendingTree finds that 97% of retirement ...

A new "wind phone" has been installed in Oak Island to help people cope with grief. The phone, which is not connected to any lines, allows people to "dial" loved ones who have passed away and say ...

Rotarian Sybil Williamson gave a fascinating talk on the Japanese art of Temari a the latest meeting of Lockerbie and District Rotary Club. Each year, Sybil adds a new craft to her skills and this ...

Janet McFetridge says the act of dialing a rotary phone really takes her back. "You’re at church and you’re calling for a ride home and so you dial that number and I’ll bet almost all of us ...

For fun, they showed calls from an iPhone, a flip phone, and a vintage rotary phone. OpenAI says the new features came out of an internal OpenAI "hack week" project that a team built just a few ...

The team demonstrated that 1-800-CHATGPT works on any phone and even brought out an old school rotary phone to convince us. But if you're wondering why you might need to call ChatGPT, like I was ...

In fact, it's one of the reasons I write about hardware to this day, and one person turning their rotary phone into a Bluetooth headset might just be one of the best Frankenstein's monster-style ...

then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the demographics of a vanishing breed of landline ...

Telephones of the Wind: Making calls to lost loved ones At its simplest, a wind phone is a rotary or push-button phone located in a secluded spot in nature, usually within a booth-type structure ...