May 15th, 2008
#508 – Vibrations
A telephone made from soup cans and string was an amazing thing when it was first shown to me. It was the kind of thing that made you believe magic was real. It was a lot of fun to play with until we got walkie talkies. Being able to talk around corners turned out to be much cooler.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I remember thosse things, never tried them.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am
We were planning on doing this at the Brewers game on Monday so my mom could talk past like 8 of us to my brother, but unfortunately we lacked string.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I wasn’t aware Biff knew anyone.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Haha, I like this one a lot, I love how Biff’s mouth looks here, a lot more expression than usual somehow, I think it’s cause it’s only long on one side, don’t change it!.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Hehe, wrong kind of fiber XD
May 15th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Good old cans-on-string telephones, so much fun with them…
May 15th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Soup can phones, great stuff.
Since everything is going wireless these days, I’d love to see a wireless soup can phone.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:52 am
Fiber optic, Biff! Fiber optic!
I hate to think how much they charged him for that.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:55 am
“I hate to think how much they charged him for that.”
well, you’re gonna need quite a lot of string to call long distance.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Biff should lease his eye brows to the phone company.
May 15th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I was never really impressed by the soup-cans-and-string telephone, because we were only given enough string so that when one person talked into it, the other person could hear him even without the soup can.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I’ve never actually seen a soupcanstring phone, it sounds like something that could never ever work to me. Someday, I’m going to have to make one and get a friend to humor me with it, just to see if they actually work.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
I’ve never tried those. I’ve wanted to but never had the materials when I thought of it. I don’t see how it would ever work though. Maybe just because you can hear the other person even without the soupcan and string.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
The closest I ever came to that was in 3rd or 4th grade when we had to construct working electric telephones using parchment, cardboard, a magnet, a metal stand, some powdered graphite, some wire, and a dry-cell battery. Believe it or not, they worked; but the sound quality wasn’t the best.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
when the string is held taught between the cans it carries the vibration of your voice from one end to the other
May 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
String can phones work suprisely well. I have a nice rollover plan and no fuss with text messages or voicemail!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Next time, Biff, ask what KIND of fiber you’re getting.