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I've always favoured mobile phones that have a slight phaserish look to them. . . And I'll be aiming my latest one at the next person to make a God-awful pun like that! 8)
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Now there's a good quesiton - why the HELL has no one released a cell phone that looks and behaves exactly like an original series communicator? Technologically, it's clearly possible, and there is no doubt that Paramount would sell out of a limited-edition, very expensive run of them!
Has anyone ever heard of a plan for this? It seems so obvious...
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It'd be one hell of a fad... Possibly one that wouldn't be too useful. While one is clearly workable, you'd have to build in a speakerphone function that would make the conversation both clear and receptible to both parties. While this is capable of being done, the battery in a cell phone probably wouldn't make extended conversations very practical.
Then of course, you'd have to incorporate a standard cellphone function, but then that wouldn't be much like a communicator, would it? What we're left with is the *look*, which would indeed be rather cool to have, even if you still have to hold it to your ear.
Y'know, I betcha people have tried doing this at least once over the years. Only in the past year or so have the anntenaeless cells become realy lightweight - maybe it's ime for someone to try again.
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I remember that one too - I believe it had a special function you could use to zap commercials, or something like that.
On the same note, a few years back they had a "Tricorder Mk I" which was a practical, working scientific device that could measure certain physical and meteorological parameters. It even looked like a TNG tricorder too, built in a permenant "open" mode. Here:
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At first I also thought that a speakerphone wasn't practical for a cell, but Nextel phones (very common out here in Southern California) have speaker phones built into them, and they work perfectly.
Someone just needs to do it!
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I'm laughing about that one, Mojo. Probably because I remember the episode where Mork is trying to get the little eggs to fly and be free. He tosses 'em in the air and they splat on the counter. He hums TAPS as he washes 'em down the sink.
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Been meaning to make another addition to this thread. . .
I own a pair of Kickers in blue suede. The part of the instep between the toe and the laces is flat and shaped like a curved triangle. And, on that area is an embossed Kickers logo which looks strangely (even to the type of font) like the place where a starship's name would be.
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