Those of the younger generation probably never had the need to use a phone booth before what with 10 year old these days getting their own cell phones so why not bring the phone booth up to speed with a modern twist, making the phone booth “cool” once more?
What the good professor did was install an iPad 2 with WiFi into the phone booth and thanks to the Pan & Tilt Vesa Arm it would be able to accommodate users of different heights and along with Skype that had a World Unlimited Account, it allowed his international students to place calls back to their own country along with video chat as well.
In Prof. Michael Shaughnessy’s own words:
“I had a blast converting it. It serves a good function as our students use our international unlimited account a lot to call home, and now they have a bit more privacy. I was just lucky to find this local guy with a ‘Red Box’ booth, which is about 40-50 years old. … A perfect addition to our language lab, I think.”