Aussie boffin cobbles together Get Smart shoe phone – smh.com.au — Well, it’s about time!
Forty years after clumsy agent Maxwell Smart immortalised the shoe phone, an Australian computer scientist has developed a real-life version and published detailed step-by-step instructions online.
It may seem like an impractical novelty in a world of iPhones and tiny bluetooth headsets but the inventor, Paul Gardner-Stephen, insists there are practical applications – including, surprisingly enough, helping the elderly.
And the gadget has been so popular among the geek crowd that he is considering selling it via online stores.
“Ah yes, the old phone in the shoe trick. That’s the 3rd time this week I’ve seen one of those.”
Implanting tiny cellphone right in the ear would help elderly people better, me thinks…
hhmmm missed it by that much…
What’s a boffin? is that like an anorak? 🙂
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No I didn’t just kick grandma in the head, she needed to make a phone call.