HOWTO: Make a Get Smart shoe phone

Paul Gardner-Stephen made a shoe-phone, last seen pressed against Don Adams’ mug in Get Smart. Because spy gear is best hardened by transparency, Gardner-Stephen made this Instructable showing how he did it. Spoiler alert: You put a phone in a shoe. [via MAKE:]

1. [BingoTheChimp]

   Nick at Nite offered a Get Smart shoe phone in the early ’90s. It was a cheap touch-tone phone in a cheap dress shoe, with the buttons on the bottom of the sole. Of course, you had to plug it into a jack.

   Now, this is all well and good, but I’d love to see a more authentic version with rotary dial and flip-down mouthpiece, like the original prop.

2. [devophill]

   Wow. In other news, you can embed Instructables?! Who knew?

3. [ender_sb]

   IIRC, also used more recently by Steve Carell in the 2008 movie version of Get Smart. So no, it was not last seen against Don Adams’ mug.

4. [graphicsman]

   I’ve always enjoyed referring to my cel phone as my “shoe phone”. Thanks for showing us the old “phone-hidden-in-a-shoe” trick, eh?