As smartphones swallow childhood, a growing movement of parents is reinstalling landlines, hoping an old-school corded phone ...

Year after year, he came.Orange, plastic and hungry for lasagna, his self-satisfied face was stuck in a permanent grin. Sometimes he came intact. Other times, he was in pieces or badly coated in grime ...

For more than 30 years bright orange "Garfield" phones have been washing up on the French coast to the bemusement of local beach cleaners, who have finally cracked the mystery behind them. Locals had ...

A mystery which has been perplexing French litter pickers in Brittany for decades has finally been solved. Since the 1980s, novelty landline phones, shaped like the cartoon cat Garfield, have been ...

In today’s world, communication is largely done through one of two methods: smartphones or social media. Young children, however, rarely have access to either—and experts say they shouldn’t have any ...

Phone design creativity has pretty much gone straight downhill since the 1980s. Sure, your Palm Pre may look like a futuristic Zen pebble, and your iPhone can run any one of 60,000 individual apps (no ...