Gadgetory

this is the fusion of reality and science fiction I'm Walt Mossberg I have been reviewing tech gadgets since the early 90s and collecting them since the 80s and I wanted to show you some of my collection this was a very popular dumb phone I guess you would call it the Motorola StarTAC it came out in 1996 11 years before the iPhone and it was widely believed to have been inspired by the Star Trek communicator which Captain Kirk and mr. Spock would whip open on some planet or gender brush I'm gonna kick back with the ship and that's what this did except on only one planet planet a or a lot of the success of tech over the last 40 years have been these things are objects of desire carrying this at that time major cool you spy sure have some cool toys how did you check out the Motorola StarTAC fela phone the smokes - fela phone in the world I think the design is now obsolete in the sense that consumers don't seem to want flip phones instead they were giant tablets but for many many years of lip phones were the thing and lots of other people made them this isn't the only thing which at least in design was inspired by Star Trek and other science fiction I don't believe you could actually transport yourself to the planet the alien planet with it but maybe someday