There were over 2.1 million pay phones in the U.S. at their peak in 1999, but now the technology is mostly relegated to nostalgia. Few wall-mounted pay phones linger in strip malls, and the silver and ...

If the old, broken pay phone could talk, if we could capture the first 10,000 conversations of the pay phone’s busiest years in Baltimore — if it were possible to catch all the long-gone conversations ...

TUNBRIDGE, Vt. — An electrical engineer by trade, Patrick Schlott has spent countless hours tinkering with new and old technology. But it wasn’t until he found himself living in rural Vermont that he ...

In an era dominated by texting, social media and video calls, a biotech startup is going retro to tackle a very modern problem: loneliness. Matter Neuroscience has installed paired pay phones in two U ...

Pick up the receiver. No coins needed. On the other end of the line: a stranger from a completely different generation, ready to talk. That's the idea behind a social experiment from Matter ...

They were once on street corners, at bus stops, in convenience stores, courthouses and casinos. In the pre-cellphone era, everyone from executives to children to criminals used them. But the golden ...