The 1970s called and they want their rotary dial cell phone back. Looking for all the world like something assembled from the Radio Shack parts department – remember when Radio Shack sold par… ...

This year, I built a toy for my grandkids for Christmas, using a rotary dial salvaged from a Goodwill find. It has two 7-seg LEDs and a switch to select up or down counting or dialled digit display.

And now tinkerer Davis Remmel has put Siri inside a rotary dial phone, somehow completing the circle. Davis's hack involves an old phone, a Bluetooth headset and a little re-wiring.

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

Dial L for Lobster: one of the six versions of Salvador Dalì’s surreal variant on the telephone SIR – Stephen Woodbridge-Smith says that, with his old rotary-dial phone, he has trouble when ...

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts. YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which ...

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.