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 more than 10,000 of which make fart sounds), but really: Can you top the saccharine cuteness that is the Kermit the Frog phone? Does your BlackBerry look like a football? We think not.
Wired photo editor Jim Merithew recently photographed a collection of old novelty phones, and while his gallery is excellent, it's hardly the last word on these kitschy gadgets. We think that you, Gadget Lab readers, can do much better.
Use the form below to nominate your own novelty phones. Be sure to include a link to a photograph. And vote on your favorites in the list right here.
The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving us permission to use it on Wired.com and in Wired magazine. Please submit images that are relatively large, the ideal size being 800 to 1200 pixels or larger on the longest side. Please include a description of your photo.
We don't host the photos, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else and submit a link to it. If you're using Flickr, Picasa or another photo-sharing site to host your image, please provide a link to the image file directly and not just the photo page where it's displayed. Using an online photo service that requires that you log in will not work. If your photo doesn't show up, it's because the URL you have entered is incorrect. Check it and make sure it ends with the image file name (XXXXXX.jpg).
Please bookmark this page and check back periodically over the next two weeks to vote on new submissions!
Top photo credit: Jim Merithew / Wired.com
While you can submit as many phones as you want, you can only submit one every 30 minutes. No HTML allowed.
