Going out of style

In this article, The New York Times asks us what products will be rendered useless by the progression of technology. Gas cars? Newspapers? Books? Well, what about phone booths? I don't think I've ever even used a pay phone in my life, let alone recently. Nowadays pretty much everyone's got a cell phone, and the pay phone seems to be becoming obsolete. So what do we do with them? One clever idea is to turn them into charging stations for people to use when their phones or computer run out of charge. The government in Spain is actually putting this idea into action.