You can use an old rotary telephone dialer in conjunction with your microcontroller to implement all sorts of things; for example, you could use it to enter a series of numbers to unlock a safe. You ...

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 ...

The Surface Dial is a $100+ rotary control. You can turn it, and it’ll make some basic stuff happen on your Microsoft Surface. It’s silver and sleek and elegant but fundamentally, it just works via ...

WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.

Tired of looking at your phone’s screen when you could, alternatively, be watching the road to make sure you’re not veering into oncoming traffic? Fingertips Lab today announced the O6, a clicky ...

In the course of AppleInsider's proprietary investigation into the iPod Hi-Fi and iPod Boombox trademarks, it came upon a patent filed overseas for a unique mouse design that sports a rotary dial. The ...