[veganjay]

This is so cool, especially for those of us who've used rotary phones.

I'd like to see a video of a google voice or other call made using the rotary number pad :)

[kmoser]

Just use a rotary cell phone: https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html

[no_time]

Tangent, does anyone know where can I buy a small mechanical ringer module like that? I'm probably feeding the wrong terms into ebay but the best it can do vintage doorbells.

[layer8]

It would be fun for it to support texting using T9 on the dial.

[melling]

We had a rotary phone when I was young.

What would be really cool is to see some version of “Minority Report” actually work in my lifetime.

https://youtu.be/PJqbivkm0Ms

Sort of like people who lived during the invention of the airplane and got to see humans land on the moon

[nordsieck]

> What would be really cool is to see some version of “Minority Report” actually work in my lifetime.

I suspect that that will come swiftly once VR headsets get good[1] enough to be used as a replacement for a laptop/monitor setup. I don't personally have a device, but people who do have told me that the resolution and weight just aren't there yet.