
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.
Gadget Lab
See also:
itcrowd, Rotary Dial Phone Hacked to Control Siri
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