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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 :)

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

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.

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

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

> 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.

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