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Cartoon: Going Mobile

Written by Jon Carter
1/31/2013 52 comments
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Susan Fourtané
Thinkernetter
Friday February 15, 2013 2:52:31 AM
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Thanks, Ariella! 

Those shoes look fantastic for an elegant shoe phone, and it's just my kind of shoe. :) And the article says they are fully functional! I wouldn't have that boot phone, though. 

-Susan

Ariella
Thinkernetter
Friday February 8, 2013 11:53:26 AM
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@Kim I also love those old-fashioned phones. In our last house, one was anchored into a telephone nook. It wasn't quite as cool as the one with the separate ear and mouthpiece, but it was solid metal, weighing far more than the phones of today do.

Ariella
Thinkernetter
Friday February 8, 2013 11:51:30 AM
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@Susan did you see http://www.gizmag.com/o2-recycle-sean-miles-shoe-phones/26134/? You can even have a bootphone!

 

And for the high-heel version, nothing less than Laboutins 

Alison Diana
Thinkernetter
Monday February 4, 2013 5:39:01 PM
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These are the phones where you ask for "Greenacre 631," right?

Kim Davis
Thinkernetter
Monday February 4, 2013 3:53:53 PM
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Okay, this is before my time.  But kind of cool.

 

Mashka
Researcher
Monday February 4, 2013 2:02:43 PM
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@ Bolingbroke

  Ok,  I think that would look  very natural in Lady Gaga's hand

 

Mitch Wagner
Thinkernetter
Monday February 4, 2013 12:39:32 PM
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Sorry about that, chief. 

Mitch Wagner
Thinkernetter
Monday February 4, 2013 12:37:46 PM
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LOL! That's quite an image!

jabailo
IQ Crew
Monday February 4, 2013 12:08:19 PM
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I read there were very, very few of them issued...in the hundreds.  However it is amazing they had mobile phones as early as the 1960s!

hiranya
IQ Crew
Monday February 4, 2013 9:02:14 AM
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Mobile technology has been sky rocketing over the past few years. It became an instant hit and still it has matained its popularity. The only issue with mobile technology is that the security threats.

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