While mobile companies are doing their best to make cellphones as sleek and futuristic as possible, retro junkies keep taking them apart and turning them into ironic, yet functional, pieces of art like these. The first mod, from
Grooveking.com, makes an old Motorolla DynaTAC 8000X or "Zack Morris phone" into a Bluetooth headset, that'll get 8-times the juice of a normal battery. The second project, from DIYHappy.com, takes an old NES controller (which has already gotten the
Bluetooth treatment in the past) and fills it with the guts of a Nokia 3200 – yes, the
American Idol phone. You need a little technical know-how to make these for yourself, but after you get the hang of it, all of your gadgets might end up
crammed into NES controllers. Sadly, the Nokia 3200 doesn't have Bluetooth so you won't be able to use these two devices together, but we look forward to the future when our Xbox 360 controllers and Treos are turned into seemlessly-integrated retro kitsch.
[Thanks Zack and Sam]
posted Jun 13th 2006 10:35AM
Why? Why? Why would anyone want to put a controller up to their ear and use as a phone?
That NES controller phone was perfect opportunity to implement side-talkin. It's a shame that it was squandered.
This got me to think that a great retro mod for the treo would be to put it into an original game boy... or maybe a gameboy color since it would be more compact.
Give it the ability to play GBA games and I'm all in.
You know what would be cool?
If someone took a portable game device, heh, yeah, and instead of putting the microphone and speaker on the back, heheh.. Get this...
THEY PUT THEM ON THE SIDE!!!
... oh wait... somebody already did that...
wasn't it called, the Ngage!?!
(Before you flame, I know the NES controller isn't operational nor was it meant to be... Just making a joke. NEVER FORGET ABOUT SIDETALKIN'!!!)
I wish someone would sell the nintendo phones. If you want to make anything profitable, just put it in a nintendo controller.
I tipped them to the Zack Morris phone hack. :)
a good idea.. the guy just needs to learn how to cut a clean line.. the thing looks like shit.
if they made a nintendo controller phone like that i would buy it for sure. hopefully it will have a sliding flap or something to hide the dialing buttons and screen.
Zack's phone ruled
Carrying a cellphone made out of an old Nintendo controller...I'd rather be shot. And i don't even want to imagine what people will say when they see you answer your "phone".
I live in a very plastic city where normality goes hand by hand with style, bleach hair, glamour and envy. With this thing, you will be setting examples of what NOT to own.
BUT... if Nintendo make a sidekick-type of phone with the DS Lite, then that will be a totally different story. His previous inventions/modifications where cool and innovative, but this?, oh no!, he lost it.
Who in the world would use this? It would make you look dumber than those people who used the NGage as a phone.
How cool do they look, but i know what men would want there phones to look like, a TV remote as this is a man's most cherished possession so why not let him carry it with him all day
Well, the phone already rings with Nintendo songs, so why not have it look like a Nintendo too? It would be not half a decision to buy one of those.