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Podcast: In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons
Episode: A Phone That Gives You A Chance To ‘Talk’ To Lost Loved Ones Again
Description: The first wind phone was created in Japan by Itaru Sasaki after losing his cousin to cancer in 2010. He installed a disconnected rotary phone in his garden as a way to connect with his cousin after their death.
In 2011, after a tsunami hit the coast of Japan, destroying cities and leaving hundreds of people missing, Sasaki then relocated the phone booth on a hill overlooking the ocean to give others a way to connect with their lost loved ones.
And now in 2025, one mother in Geneva, Ill., wants to bring a wind phone to the far western suburb.
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