Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Rotary phone dials up iPhone’s Siri (Cnet – Crave )
(Credit: Davis Remmel)
Remember the days of Betamax, turntables, and Zenith TVs with rabbit ears and
big honking dials?
A little retrofitting turned a rotary phone into a Siri-enabled handset.
(Credit: Davis Remmel)
Siri has just taken a little trip back to those simpler times of yore with a
quaint little hack that turns the voice assistant into an operator reachable
via rotary phone (cue the Jim Croce, those of you who remember hearing a voice
say “operator” on the other end of the line).
Computer programmer Davis Remmel ripped apart a $2 Bluetooth headset purchased
on eBay, fitting its earpiece into the earpiece section of the old phone and
the microphone into the mouthpiece. The headset is enabled by dialing “1″ on
the rotary encoder.
In the video below, Remmel picks up the 20th century handset, dials “1,” and
delivers the command “Call John Doe.” Siri then says, “Calling John Doe’s
mobile,” and proceeds to call the number on Remmel’s iPhone 4S, which is
connected to the rotary phone. Given that the hacked rotary phone is now
essentially a Bluetooth headset, Remmel could theoretically talk to his friend
through the rotary phone. Wait, does Remmel actually have …
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