[ArGee]

First flip phones, now aluminium, soon warp drive, I hope.

I showed my kids "The Trouble With Tribbles" the other day. When Kirk pulled out his communicator they laughted. I asked them what was funny and they said, "Look how BIG it is."

Hopefully Warp Drive will also be that much better than what ST predicted. Shalom.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"When Kirk pulled out his communicator they laughted"

Well, That communicator could talk to starships in orbit! Ill take the communicator over the cell phone anyday!

[Question_Assumptions]

Well, point out to your kids that a classic Star Trek communicator didn't have to be recharged daily, could talk to starships in orbit, and can produce a strong enough signal to cause rocks to slide off of a cliff. Let's see a flip phone do that. But I bet it Motorola, Nokia, or some other company produced a working cell phone in a good and reasonably accurate looking class Star Trek communicator shell (they could make it work like a speaker phone and handle the little display with some fancy LCD work), I bet they'd sell like hotcakes, even if they were a bit clumsy to use. Of course if your kids want small, point out that a flip-phone sized hand-phase is shown as being powerful enough to disintegrate opponents and is still way ahead of the curve.