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Very cool! i concur with the whole functional simplicity thing. But I think the dial is anachronistic, despite what's claimed; A bit like fitting your car wit
by jacknews 7y ago
Very cool!
i concur with the whole functional simplicity thing.
But I think the dial is anachronistic, despite what's claimed; A bit like fitting your car with reigns for steering and a whip for acceleration.
The only 'functional' aspect of it is perhaps that it slows down your dialing enough (especially when your finger slips on a number, and you have to start over!), for you to think whether you really need to make that call.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoIt's fun, which is its own kind of "functional".
- croon 7y agoYou could say it puts the fun in functional. I'll see myself out.
- DonHopkins 7y agoThat's a recursive portmanteau!
- JdeBP 7y agoThe article makes no claim that it is not anachronistic. What it says, rather, is that that is not the point.
- jacknews 7y agoTrue And I agree it's fun and a cool project, regardless of utility
- DonHopkins 7y agoI knew an early mobile phone adopter in the 80's who made a converter plug for his car phone, and plugged in an old black classical AT&T dial phone that he could make and receive calls on. Every time he drove over a bump with the car, the bell on the phone would ding.
- deepspace 7y ago> A bit like fitting your car with reigns for steering and a whip for acceleration. I just spent far too much time pondering the feasibility of a reign / whip controlled car. The trickiest part might be designing the filter to detect the crack of a whip reliably. Also wondering if there are any laws regarding the form and location of steering and acceleration mechanisms.