Reverse fashion.

Often times fashion repeats itself. Looks back in time.

My dad used to say "parallel" pants were reincarnations of good old (old, I get it, but good old?) "bell bottoms" and that fashion comes back at you after you dispose off your old-fashioned stuff. You buy the same thing again and the process repeats. Abercrombie for instance, I can never tell if its a new clothestore or an old warehouse. Unironed clothed, unneatly kept. At unrealistic prices. Thats when you know its new clothes. Or newest, because its fashion!!

Almost seems like technology is doing the dirty job again. How many old rotary dial phones do we still have at home? If you found one, it probably found its home mom's cupboard of useless things (where floppy disks, black school shoes from grade 3 through 11 times number of kids in the family, 386, 486, clothes that don't fit anymore but hoping the 20lbs holiday weight accumulated 6 years ago would melt away, overstocked free stuff, or even dad are sometimes stored) How about offices that have typewriters? If offices have one today chances are that they are government, bankrupt or museum - so lets give them a break.

Here they are - reinventing themselves again. What you see here: a cell phone and a keyboard. For only $499 you can get the cell phone. the ugly annoying ringing is included for free!!

From the inventors/freaks:

My wife suffers from repetive stress problems in her fingers and wrists. Sometime in October we were talking about different keyboards on the market for people such as herself. In the course of the conversation she mentioned that she finds old-fashioned mechanical typewriters much easier on her fingers because they offer gradual resistance rather than the feeling of moving through air then hitting a wall, like most computer keyboards. Ah-hah, I think to myself! At last I know what I will give her for Christmas. The first weekend after Halloween I went out and found an old Smith-Corona and got to work.

All you have to do is open the phone, insert your SIM card, and turn the unit on! The unit will utilize your phone number and account minutes. Phone dials out like normal through the rotary. Incoming calls ring the original, loud, gong style metal bells. Please note: As with all cellular phones, there is no dial tone.

The description reminds me of a friend who just came back from her vacation to India - "Your (cell)phone is not working. There's no dial tone!!"

Don't let those geeks be idle!