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Rotary Phone
martphones are objectively horrible devices.
They constantly demand attention, intruding into our
thoughts and emotions with their endless beeps
and bleeps. Unfortunately, once you have Google
Authenticator on there for your work email and
WhatsApp to keep in touch with family, you’re hooked.
However much you hate it, you’re always carrying it around.
Unless you’re engineer Justine Haupt that is. Justine, like us,
hates the smartphone, but she’s actually done something about
it, creating this pocket-sized rotary phone from scratch to create a
distraction-free, fully functional device.
“Why a rotary cellphone?”, says Justine. “Because in a finicky,
annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using
phones they have no control over or understanding of, I wanted
something that would be entirely mine, personal, and absolutely
tactile, while also giving me an excuse for not texting. “
“If I want to call my husband, I can do so by pressing a single
dedicated physical key which is dedicated to him. No menus. The
point isn’t to use the rotary dial every single time I want to make a
call, which would get tiresome for daily use. The people I call most
often are stored, and if I have to dial a new number or do something
like set the volume, then I can use the fun and satisfying-to-use
rotary dial.”S
By Justine Haupt skysedge.usRight
A low-power
consumption
e-paper display
(on the back of the
phone) shows
relevant
information, such
as the most recent
missed call