Forgotten and Unseen Electronics Part 14

This is the Zihotch Retro Phone Watch. It's made to look like a really old phone. This watch has no hands so instead you have to dial 117 and it will tell you the time. It only tells time in Japanese though. You can buy one here:

http://www.audiocubes.com/product_info.php?products_id=2456

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Posted By: phantomspy1 - Wed Jun 10, 2009
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Wow Expat, that is REALLY old school.

Posted by Matt in Florida on 06/10/09 at 10:10 AM

Rotary dial is old. I think most of the rotary dial phones and wall mounted phones you see now are fake. I grew up with a fake wall box phone that you opened to reveal a real dial tone. I think those wall mounted phones were entirely replaced by rotary in the early sixties. Almost antiques.

As for the wall mount hand crank phones a few of you hallucinated using after watching one too many Lassie episodes well, they are still good for some electrofishing.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2312278_make-fish-shocker.html

Posted by Pablo on 06/11/09 at 12:28 PM

Yeah, I'd have to agree that rotary phones aren't that old, especially if I remember having one as a child and I'm in my late twenties.

Posted by mdb777 on 06/11/09 at 12:49 PM

I have a feeling most rotary dial phones are in close proximity to hard candy dishes that have long since morphed into one gigantic hard candy.

Posted by Pablo on 06/12/09 at 12:10 PM

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