Today is the 161st birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. It was in 1876 (wow, that’s a long time ago) that the first two-way telephone call was made, by Bell to his assistant. The first telephone went on sale in Canada on July 10, 1877.
In celebration of Bell’s birthday I bring you some bizarre phones and crazy novelty phones. These are ten phones that I never knew existed until today.
First comes the Toaster phone. This phone is the work of Renata Quintela, an industrial design student in Brazil. The phone comes with two bread phones and a toaster charger.
Who doesn’t want a pig phone with a snoring sound?
Ring Ring Ring Ring… It’s a Bananaphone!
The Voice changing telephone from wholesaler Chinavision alters your voice to sound like a man, woman, or child. Creepy!
This phone is made from a few slices of fake bread.(Product Page)
This may look like a real turkey leg, but it’s a phone designed for Dick Wolfsie of WISH TV 8. (Source customphones.com)
- The world’s first penis phone. I don’t think this is what Alexander Graham Bell had in mind.
The skinky phone brings back memories of childhood.
This is the perfect phone for smokers as the cigarette phone phone holds your cigarettes too.
This may look like a toy, but it’s not. When you press the demonstration button, or receive a phone call, the telephone dispenses a gumball.
There are certainly some unique phones out there. We’ve come a long way Mr. Bell.
Check out these ten pink phones.
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Shawn DesRochers
// Mar 3, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Wow those are some weird phones - I would have to agree Rose. I don’t think Alexander Graham Bell thought of his phones in this matter but I am sure he also didnt think it would be such a huge success after all these years…
The phone lets us stay in touch, some use it for their internet connection and lets not forget emergency situations - where the phone has saved 100’s of lives …
Great Post!
Shawn DesRochers
Sy
// Mar 3, 2008 at 7:14 pm
So that is what Googles picture was about today! I work out most of them, but totally bypassed the birthday of the telephone in my head!
Seamus
// Mar 3, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I don’t see Agent Smart’s shoe phone!!
Rose DesRochers
// Mar 3, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Seamus, you know I just had to Google Agent Smart’s shoe phone. lol
DrowseyMonkey
// Mar 3, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Okay, one of those made me scroll back up for a closer look … not gonna say which one
I miss big goofy phones! They’re getting to small, soon they won’t even be there!
Peter Kerr
// Mar 4, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I must be shopping at the wrong stores to have missed these.
I would love to see a ‘where are they now’ for the people that invented each of these.
Mewie
// Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 pm
WHoA…. can’t say I ever imagined such phones would exist!
Imagine using one of these as your cell phone? For one of them (i think you know which one I’m talking about), I think you’d get arrested for utilizing it in public… haahhaha. And yes, I meant ‘utilize’ in the form of actual communication.
Hilarious post. Love it.
Rose DesRochers
// Mar 4, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Mewie, I wonder how log before someone makes a Penis cell phone?
Mewie
// Mar 4, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I have no doubt someone already made the device… I just refuse to google it.
Blake
// Mar 4, 2008 at 9:45 pm
There’s a good one missing; Juno’s hamburger phone!
Rose DesRochers
// Mar 4, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Mewie I was brave enough to Google it and found nothing.
Blake, I saw the Juno’s hamburger phone yesterday on my look for phones. My son likes it. It is rather cool.
natespost
// Mar 8, 2008 at 2:00 pm
My first cell phone weighed 3 lbs
Jeffrey
// May 1, 2008 at 1:54 pm
In Canada! We Americans always assume that anything like this of importance happened in the USA. I am shocked this event was in Canada.
Rose DesRochers
// May 1, 2008 at 11:45 pm
You know what they say about assumptions.
Ailsa
// Sep 24, 2008 at 3:18 am
Hi!
I’ve been looking everywhere for a banana phone on the Internet but I can’t find one for sale. I just stumbled upon your blog.. and I was wondering if you found that phone for sale anywhere. if so could you please email me the site?
Thanks so much!!
Ailsa,
Australia
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