Bengaluru techie turns grandfather’s telephone into AI smart home device: Here is how much it costed to make

Nostalgia is a powerful driving force behind some of the most creative projects to come out. For a Bengaluru-based techie, it was all about his grandfather’s telephone. The tech enthusiast has breathed new life into his grandfather’s decades-old rotary phone by converting it into a fully functional voice-activated AI assistant. And the price? It cost him less than a usual Nokia feature phone, i.e., Rs 2,000.