Those wacky Media Lab people. The Agoraphone is one of the more funky things I've seen out of there.
AgoraPhone is a free, uncensored, and easily accessed communication place. The word agora is a Greek word referring to an open air gathering place where citizens come together to discuss critical, as well as not so critical, issues.
Combining increasingly popular mediated communication allowances with old school public interaction, the first installation of AgoraPhone consists of a phone number that can be dialed from anywhere, and a communication sculpture installed as an element of urban architecture. From any touch-tone phone anywhere, people can call AgoraPhone's number and be connected to the public place.
They've got some examples of people's experiences with it. I think the stuff about kids interacting with it was the coolest one. Now I wanna call it, but I'm not sure what to say. Maybe I'll just call once or twice a day and say "HI MY NAME IS BRAK".
[Link found via Boing Boing Blog]
