Gallery: This Landline-Inspired Gadget Aims to Outdo Your Smartphone

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    New tech company Insensi is launching Ily, a communications device for the home meant to evoke the ease and charm of our bygone landline phones.
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    Ily, designed by the British creative consultancy MAP, aims to connect kids and grandparents and everyone in between by consolidating all communication—from calls to video chats to texts—in one fixed place.
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    In that way, Ily is a bit of an antidote to the growing multi-functionality, and thus growing personalization, of our smartphones.