'Get Smart' Phones You Can Actually Get
Once a joke, belt phones, pen phones, and wristwatch phones are now a reality.
Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World
1960s-era sci-fi phones are no longer fiction
One of the running gags in the hit '60s TV show Get Smart was the crazy telephones used by Maxwell Smart, aka Agent 86. Tucked inside ties, combs, eyeglasses, ice cream cones and, of course, shoes, phones were always ringing at the most inconvenient times for the bumbling spy. With the June 20 release of the movie version of Get Smart, we decided to see how many of these once-futuristic phones are available. Here's our list of 10 "Get Smart" -inspired phones that you can buy today.
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