Boing Boing

Boing Boing

This site maps Wind Phones across the world

Jennifer Sandlin
May 01, 2025
∙ Paid

Wind Phone

A couple of years ago, Popkin here at Boing Boing wrote about the "Phone of the Wind," a beautiful phone booth created by Itaru Sasaki as a way to help him grieve a family member who had died from cancer. Sasaki installed the first iteration of the Wind Phone—an old rotary phone that's disconnected from phone wires or anything electric and who…

User's avatar

Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Boing Boing.

Or purchase a paid subscription.
Jennifer Sandlin's avatar
A guest post by
Jennifer Sandlin
Subscribe to Jennifer
© 2026 Happy Mutants LLC · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture