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This mobile is only just. It is a fairly standard up to date GSM dual band phone on the audio side, but that's where the similarity ends. It has a 12 digit nixie tube numerical display. It has a fold-out bellows with a 45mm lens and leaf shutter, behind which sits the 126 film cartridge you inserted
some time ago. It has a morse key, for messaging nearby peers. It also has a small folded-up atlas and an A-Z for finding your nearest. It can play cassettes. It can also tune into the AM band (7 transistor, with ferrite bar aerial).
Retro Cell Phone
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Not dissimilar? Redundant? [hippo, Jun 07 2007, last modified Jun 08 2007]
The Hands-Free kit
http://www.hawkin.c...STK_PROD_CODE=08850
More comfortable than the one [Canuck] was proposing - look, he's smiling! [hippo, Jun 07 2007]
Housman
http://www.bartleby.com/123/40.html
Not actually 'A Shropshire Lad' at all, but I thought it was until I checked. [pertinax, Jun 07 2007]
Blue Remembered Hills
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0078882/
Dennis Potter play inspired by the Houseman poem. [DrBob, Jun 07 2007]
[link]
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Can it at least have a re-configurable
chime mechanism? |
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Also limited to 30 min. talk time, analog AMPS (824-894 MHz), and should weigh at least a couple of pounds *without* the required alkaline batteries. |
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Don't forget the sextant for location based services. |
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<admires the shade of brown bakelite> |
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Would there be room to squeeze in one of Mr Baird's Televisors? |
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Don't forget it should also have a pair of tin cans and a short length of string for communicating with other similarly-equipped local devices.
Perhaps the antenna should be held aloft by kite. |
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I want mine to play 8-tracks. |
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And a big C-clamp attachment for hands-free use |
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<clamps unit to head - Ouch! It's too tight! Nnngh, nnngh! Urk! Ahhhh! Much better!> |
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So this would be from A.E. Housman's famous work 'A Shropshire Nerd' (see link): |
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Upon my specs the rains that tease
From yon far country blow:
What Blue Remembered Mobiles these,
What aerials for show? |
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That is the Land of lost content-
Providers, one and all.
The happy crowd of anoraks
Who rarely come at all. |
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Bun just for the nixie tubes ! Love all the rest of it too ! Compass is good, though the ferrite bar and other magnetic bits may be troublesome ... the sextant is nice for full global functionality, but would require a book of tables and a mechanical chronometer.
How about a pair of clip-leads so it could connect to the landline network ? |
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I'm gonna put a Flavor Flav clock on mine.
To each generation his own I guess. |
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Thinking, it would have to have a proper multi-tap battery for the valves' (vacuum tubes) grid bias, or perhaps a cat's whisker. |
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Next up, the mobile mobile-- a crib decorative made of old used cell-phones. |
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Optional wax cylinder module for recording and playing back your voicemails. |
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Oh and a drum unit for usage in remote (jungle) areas. |
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Can it include a crochet tool? I might want
to send a textile. |
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Perhaps a couple of small semaphore flags in case the battery dies. |
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a calcium-carbonate acetylene lamp for the keypad backlight. with flint + tinder to light it of course. |
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it must mysteriously store and dispense delicous boiled sweets too. |
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Does it have an electric bell instead of that annoying electronic frog? |
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//a calcium-carbonate acetylene lamp // sp. "calcium carbide" |
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... and the Geek shall inherit the Earth ... |
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Beware of Geek's boring retrofits! |
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Does it have a "Punched" SIM card? |
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