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by palmotea 214 days ago
>> Simply holding the watch’s built-in speaker up to the receiver of a push-button telephone allowed users to place calls to stored numbers

So a miniaturized version of one of this (which I totally uselessly had as a kid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z438yRW0rGQ.
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dole 214 days ago
As famously modded in 2600 mag, they were useful for a while...

https://phonelosers.com/redbox/tonedialer/

https://hackaday.com/2014/09/05/radioshack-phone-dialer-red-...

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palmotea 214 days ago
> As famously modded in 2600 mag, they were useful for a while...

And now that you remind me, that's totally why I bought one, but at the time I lacked the tools and electronics skills to do the mod.

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piltdownman 214 days ago
How on earth did we never see some early 90s hacker-culture movie do some Blue-box phreaking using this watch, similar to the (fictional) Atari Portfolio ATM hack in Terminator 2.
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