Reuters carries this interesting story about a retro hybrid phone – the Pokia.
When he walks down the street trying out his nifty invention, Nicholas Roope looks just a little bit crazy.
He is, after all, talking into a heavy, black, old, Bakelite telephone handset, with a thick coiled cord leading into his pocket.
Heads turn. The faces of passers-by register surprise, disbelief, and then, almost immediately, signs of recognition as if Roope’s object were the most familiar thing in the world.
It is, essentially, an old phone handset wired up to a standard mobile phone concealed in the pocket. It may or may not become the de rigueur fashion accessory of the decade. It may or may not ever make Nicholas Roope any money.
But it has landed him on the covers of an Italian style magazine and the Home section of the New York Times, and into the pages of technology, fashion and finance sections of magazines and newspapers in Britain and Sweden.
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