Hello operator
Can you give me number nine?
Can I see you later?
Will you give me back my dime?
So sang Jack White, of the quite excellent White Stripes. Little did he know that barely 11 years after writing these then backward-looking lyrics, humans would once again be talking to a telephone operator. An operator name Siri.
And now tinkerer Davis Remmel has put Siri inside a rotary dial phone, somehow completing the circle. Davis's hack involves an old phone, a Bluetooth headset and a little re-wiring. The headset's microphone and speaker were relocated into the handset's headset, and the button was wired up to the dial, which closes the circuit when a number is dialed.
Thus equipped, the phone can now be used to ask Siri the usual questions ("Open the pod bay doors" etc). Davis chooses to dial one, not zero or nine, as these "hold the button down too long."
As you can see, a Siri logo in the dial's center completes the hack. Bonus: you can actually use the old phone as a retro handset to make actual calls (like anyone uses a phone to call anymore).
Siri-enabled bluetooth rotary phone [Cookies and Capacitors. Thanks, lil Johnny Abell!]
