{"id":997529,"date":"2026-03-11T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997529"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:46:24","slug":"bengaluru-techie-turns-grandfathers-telephone-into-ai-smart-home-device-here-is-how-much-it-costed-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/bengaluru-techie-turns-grandfathers-telephone-into-ai-smart-home-device-here-is-how-much-it-costed-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru techie turns grandfather\u2019s telephone into AI smart home device: Here is how much it costed to make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s telephone. The tech enthusiast has breathed new life into his grandfather\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s telephone. The tech enthusiast has breathed new life into his grandfather\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}