When you are having difficulty with your arithmetic, would it not be great to have a small, robotic calculator at your beck and call? Thanks to ThinkGeek, now you can!
The Robot Calculator will not only confirm parts of multiplication tables you are unsure of, it will also hold down your spare paper clips on its magnetic back, illuminate your face with an LED light it comes randomly supplied with and store your rather short memos on the back of its small, calculating head. If that was not enough for $14.99, it may also cuddle up to you in bed…if you forced it to. [Retro to Go]
We’re not really sure what’s going on with this chocolate calculator, or Chocolator, but we’re pretty sure it’s not edible. Well, probably more edible than the LG Chocolate, but less edible than say, an actual chocolate bar without electronics inside. Now I can do my taxes and make a big mess all at the same time. [AVING]
Yesterday we showed you a mouse with a keypad under its lid, but here’s an idea for number-crunching road warriors that might be even better: a USB mouse with an integrated calculator. Just like that keypad mouse, this could useful for laptop users who don’t have a keypad that’s easily used. A major difference is that this calculator mouse is a real, shipping product, and that keypad mouse is just a design concept.
Does this 1970′s Braun ET44 calculator look familiar? Well for you iPhone users it should, it seems to bear more than a striking resemblance to your calculator application, no? [Wired]
All too simple, but damn if I don’t like it! Take a humble calculator, and redesign it to suit single-handed use. It ends up looking a lot like a mobile phone. Sure, your mobile can do calculator stuff (if it can’t, yours sucks), but having a handy calculator around the house is always a good idea, right?
Available in white, black, yellow, or pink.
Fine. Don’t buy one. I don’t care. I like it. -Seamus Byrne
The best thing that I can remember making with K’NEX was a ferris wheel, and I followed a set of directions. However, a couple of engineering-crazed kids from Olin College have devised a gigantic K’NEX Binary calculator that can add or subtract numbers as high as 15 (That’s way more impressive than it sounds).
I have an old lousy mousepad made in China that has a lousy calculator on it that I thought was pretty ridiculous. I was wrong. This; this here is ridiculous. No, it’s ricockulous.
Not only does this mousepad have a calculator, it has a thermometer, a wrist rest, it’s a USB Hub, and it’s even got card readers for your picture-transferring convenience. As if that weren’t enough, the product page also claims that it’s good for “outgoing or traveling use.” Isn’t that obvious? Who doesn’t take their USB-connected mousepads to the outdoors? – Jason Chen
Product Page [Sunday CN via Red Ferret via Sci Fi]
Nowadays, the complicated TI graphing calculators are higher up on the school supply list than pink erasers. TI has realized this and have introduced the TI-Navigator. These are graphing calculators with the ability for teachers to wirelessly view the work their students do on the graphing calculator, and the teachers can even analyze and correct wrong answers in real time. This is a great step in helping out struggling math students because teachers can see mistakes made in real time.
I can’t wait to see what the teacher thinks when I spell out BOOBS on my calculator. –Travis Hudson
Contrary to Popgadget’s headline, the Choc-U-Lator does not make math delicious. It is, however, the most sadistic stocking stuffer ever. Imagine a child unwrapping what looks to be a chocolate bar only to find a calculator that looks like chocolate. They’d be scarred for life, which is totally hilarious.
The Choc-U-Lator does have the “sweet smell” of chocolate, according to the Japanese product page. But aside from the looks and the smell, there’s nothing chocolate about it. To top it off, it only performs extremely basic functions.
So let’s recap: Not real chocolate. Not exactly an upgrade for a TI-89. Verdict: not worth $4. You’re better off buying a real candy bar and stealing a cheap-o calculator from the bank. – Matt Buchanan
Product Page [via Pop Gadget]
