This is one of those great items that looks at first glance like a gag. Then when you keep looking, you think, "Hey, that's kind of funny-looking, but man, it looks comfortable!" Then you start waxing nostalgic for yesteryear when telephones were not all required to be the size of a penny.

Nowadays, when you find someone under his desk on his hands and knees for several minutes, you don't ask, "Lost your contact lens?" You say, "Dropped your phone, huh?" Sure, the cell phone manufacturers have made them cute. Sure, it's easy to make them really, really small. Sure, they've convinced us that really, really small is really, really good. And sure, we've bought it hook, line and sinker.

It's great to have a phone that's practically tiny enough to slip into a wallet. But when you actually start talking in it, you begin to realize that it isn't as comfy as the old phones the size of toasters were. And you could hear better with them too, thanks to the fact that you could actually press the thing to your ear to block out sound.

Well, now you can have the best of both worlds and make everyone think you're pulling a gag on them at the same time. There's no need to get completely swept away in the madness of the shrinking telephones just yet. You can have your phone and talk on it comfortably too.

There is something that fits right into your hand, something graspable, something you can actually brandish at someone if they interrupt you in a, "Can't you see I'm on the phone?" kind of way. Just get the Novophone, LLC Retro Handset and plug it into your cell phone. It is the strangest thing you've ever seen, but looks really sci-fi, in an Austin Powers kind of way.

Retro is in, bay-bee, yeah!

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Posed by Rhonda.