Google made a rotary phone-inspired keyboard

The design is fun, creative, and totally impractical. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Rotary phones, once a staple in the typical mid-century living room, were largely relegated to dusty basements and landfills following the introduction of the push-button touch-tone phone. But researchers at Google Japan have rewound the clock and imagined a world where the iconic spinning dial lived on, eventually evolving into a full-fledged mechanical keyboard. They've dubbed their whimsical, but utterly impractical, design the " Gboard Dial Version ."