TTC, Ceci n'est pas un disque

One of my students was developing a project around an interactive cigaret. On his research, he found a quote about Cristóbal Colón describing these objects to the Queen and King of Spain that I found fascinating:

"...The men always had a smoking roll in their hands (cuaba) and certain herbs to inhale their vapours, these consist of [the mentioned] dry herbs (cojiba) inserted inside a dry leaf that looks like a musket... lit on one end while the other side is used for suction or absorption, then after this reek is inhaled, the flesh of the men become numb, almost intoxicated. This way they say don't feel tired. These muskets... they call them tobacco". [source]

Now imagine that one was to describe a cell phone to some other civilisation that held no reference to the global objects we do now:

"... Men and women walk through their rough, firm structures called buildings (pronounced bill-dings) with a rectangular object on their hands. Sometimes they stare at it for hours, sometimes they poke at it with their fingers or put it unto one of their ears as they speak to invisible beings, (they later explained) are not there physically. We believe is some sort of object by which they can communicate with the spirits of their loved ones. In some rare cases, they connect another sort of bifurcated tripe (called headphones) into one of the orifices of these objects and place the two other ends on their ears, one on each. After this happens they can have different effects on their bodies: some bang their heads, some move back and forth (or side to side), some even cry or smile. These rectangular boxes... they call them cell phones".