Contest Entry: Bone Fone, 1980

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I remember this from OMNI magazine in the 70s and 80s, but I don't think it ever caught on. Blame the Walkman.

Comments

[erik]

I had a pair of these. Or rather, the later version that had no radio and was designed to plug into your walkman.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

They're selling mp3 players that work underwater and conduct sound the same way.

[urso.livejournal.com]

I so remember these in Omni Magazine when I was a kid. I always wondered if they really worked.

yes

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

This is a confusing ad until you read the lengthy copy, not that I read it all. The product name seems to have little to do with what the product does and the product doesn't look anything like speakers. At first, I thought it was some sort of heat wrap for the neck because the woman looks like she's in pain. So a vote for making me go "huh?"

Yes

[crabofdoom.livejournal.com]

As a Sims2 player, I'm conditioned to think the "bone phone" is how you resurrect the dead or make zombies. After that, I was looking for some sort of telephone. I just failed all around with this ad.

yes

[whoseline_wlsc]

Wow, uh, interesting.

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I knew someone who had one of these. His parents thought it'd be safer for him to wear than a Walkman when he rode his bicycle. The thing is, though, his mom sewed a fabric case for it (he wanted it to be "camouflague") and it didn't work as well with the cover.

[kyspaz.livejournal.com]

Bone Fone...it sounds like something you'd keep in your sock drawer. Seriously, I'm more than 15.

[bluedelliquanti.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I read that title and was extremely disappointed. I thought I was reading about Fone Bone.

[3cthelion.livejournal.com]

thank you! i didn't want to come here 3 days late and be the first one to say this.

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Hah, I remember the TV ads for these!

[auntie-lovie.livejournal.com]

Thank you for relighting a neural pathway that had been dark since 1979. Wow.