Many laptops eschew the numeric keypad to free up space, and some desktop keyboards have taken on the trend, too. If you want a specialised numeric entry device and have absolutely no interest in ...

Industrial designer Jin Le predicts that in five years, people will be sick of ultra-tiny mobile phones and will want to return to the rotary-dial designs of yesteryear. So she cooked up this design, ...

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 ...

Nobody has ever wished that Twitter's 140-character limit were even stricter, but then, nobody before had ever tried Tweeting from an old-school rotary-dial phone. Enter Tweephone, a phone that will ...

Welcome to the Bored Programmer series, where we celebrate wonderfully useless inventions produced by great minds burdened by the bliss of boredom. You’ve never seen a rotary phone like that. A ...

In the course of AppleInsider's proprietary investigation into the iPod Hi-Fi and iPod Boombox trademarks, it came upon a patent filed overseas for a unique mouse design that sports a rotary dial. The ...

That takes old-school to a new level. A space engineer who despises smartphones and text messaging built her own cell phone -- and it has a rotary dial. Justine Haupt, 34, spent three years creating ...

Hello operator Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? So sang Jack White, of the quite excellent White Stripes. Little did he know that barely 11 years after ...

Here is an interesting design concept from designer Mark Miller, the Touchscreen Rotary Phone. The Touchscreen Rotary Phone merges an old design with new technology to bring us this stunning concept ...

After designing and building a cellphone with a rotary dial and an intentionally limited feature set last year, engineer Justine Haupt started selling a basic kit for under $100 last June, but ...