Tim, move aside, your mobile has been out-retro'd

[jack]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7830/

(A speaker/mike attachment for a mobile that is a landline handset. Really stupid, but worth it for just once using one in a field or on a train. (Yes, I expect mdavison got there first :)))

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

tim? tim who?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

One of my friends from college, his mobile always has a tradition-phone "bring bring" type noise, which I find very confusing, becuase I keep expecting a landline when I hear it.

[mair_in_grenderich]

ah. only I know a tim who makes a thing of having a huge mobile phone, and I thought, no, cartesiandaemon can't know him, that would be too weird. but that is a different tim.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh good.

I know a tim who makes a thing of having a huge mobile phone

He needs to be more secure.

[mair_in_grenderich]

what's good?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That they aren't the same. That would be too weird :)

[sillytrippy.livejournal.com]

Another one I liked was the inspector gadget style glove phone: http://www.jasonbradbury.com/jason_bradbury/2005/02/worlds_first_ph.html

doo-be-doo-be-doo Inspector Gadget doo-be-doo-be-doo du-doo