Category: Gadgets

Ten years ago in 1994, I wrote to Sir Arthur C Clarke about a device to store phone numbers in, and this was sort of newish then but the thing that struck me it had an acoustic coupling so when you had selected a number it relayed it via a speaker acoustically a certain series of beeps! even..Well Clarke replied .."Yes, that was the device I had in mind. The first small step to "Beam me up, Scotty..." 17th Sept 1994..