Hello, hello...

How do you "read" an ad? If you are the curious sort, you will -- like me -- love this one (by the Singapore University of Technology and Design, or SUTD)...

It's the kind of ad that makes me want to find out more. For starters, this site below claims -- contrary to the claim made above -- that two women were featured in a Pathe film clip setting up the first wireless telephone call. The year? It was 1922! So find out more here...

http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/worlds_first_mobile_phone_1922.html

Of course one can quibble. But indeed the first "mobile phone" (or cellphone) call was made on April 3,1973, by Cooper. How he did it, and to whom, makes fascinating reading:

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/03/worlds-first-cell-phone-call/

What did that first cellphone look like? Here is Cooper somewhere on a New York City street, and making that first call...

Now ubiquitous, the cellphone will celebrate its 40th anniversary on April 3 this year.

Remember that pic I posted some time back of a cellphone "taking a leak"?...

It accompanied a news item that said not an insignificant number of people had at some time dropped their cellphones into the toilet bowl. My own check with people I know confirmed it! Now, one manufacturer has come with a water-resistant cellphone...

The same company also came up with this quirky twist on the word "lust"...

Finally, my favourite cellphone was the Nokia 3310, a sturdy workhorse for me for many years...