Stavros Korokithakis really wanted to slam the receiver on meetings, so he built his own device to do just that We've all been there: A meeting goes sideways and you really wish you could physically ...

[Kevin] has long wanted to do something musical with a vintage rotary phone and an Arduino, and has finally done so and committed the first of several experiments to HTML in a five-part series. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

The hiss and crackle of a record starting—before the first note even plays—is a sound Boomers know in their bones. You'd drop ...

I have an old rotary dial POTS phone lying around, and I thought it would be cool to be able to use it to make calls. The most flexible way to do that would be to have it act as a mic and speaker that ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - With some parents moving to landlines to help their kids stay off screens while still keeping in touch with friends, questions arise about what types of phones they can use.

We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting ...

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 ...