Calculators

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Google’s Nerdiest Move Ever: Now It’s A Graphing Calculator!

1:20PM December 6, 2011 | Sam Biddle

If you’re neck-deep in maths work, or just nostalgic for the high school days of your TI-83+, fire up the big G: it’ll now serve you as a graphing calculator. Time to make sine waves! More »


Gadgets

Canon Plays God By Fusing Calculator With Mouse

11:12PM July 26, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Why’d Sir Edmund Hillary climb Everest? “Because it’s there.” And so follows Canon, fearing neither God nor Science in its path to dominate forces of the cosmos under man’s will. The X Mark I Mouse. It’s also a calculator. More »


Gadgets

A Web Browser For Your… Graphing Calculator?

1:32AM July 26, 2011 | Casey Chan

Did anyone ever use a graphing calculator to actually, like, calculate graphs? All I remember is playing Tetris and some Drugwars game. Kids these days have something crazier: Gossamer. It’s a web browser for graphing calculators. More »


Online

Figure Out Where Your Tax Dollars Went With This Infographic

1:00PM April 19, 2011 | Husain Sumra

It’s tax day in the US! Do you feel that sense of relief? Or depression? Or are you now panicked because you forgot about them? Either way, wouldn’t you like to know where your hard-earned money is going? More »


Gadgets

Boy, Graphics Calculators Are Fancy These Days

8:20PM October 8, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

If we were given Casio’s Prizm calculators in maths class, perhaps I wouldn’t have failed so dismally. Or maybe I would’ve got even worse marks – spending the 60 minutes of every class searching for Solitaire and Minesweeper. More »


The Calculator You Can Operate With Your Arse

7:20AM September 23, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

When I first saw this image, I thought they were just keys out of a calculator. They are actually chairs. Too bad they are not connected to a chip and a giant display. Next: the butt keyboard. [Pangra via Obsolete]


Software

Couldn’t Afford The ’80s Bigtrak? Get The Free iPhone App Instead

6:40AM September 8, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Sure to get men of a certain age all flustered, Bigtrak’s iPhone app has arrived in the same year that the toy relaunched, and while it’s not much more than a glorified calculator, it’s a free trip down memory lane. More »


Gadgets

These 128 Classic Calculators Could Take On Your Phone’s Calculator Any Day

7:20PM August 16, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Relive the glory days of the humble calculator with these 128 classic models splayed and assorted like pin-up girls on heat. It’d make a purdy wallpaper, if nothing else. [Vintage Technology via Core77 via io9]


Canon’s X Mark I Mouse Is Also A Calculator

6:00PM August 6, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Is it a mouseulator? A calcouse? Whatever you call this bastard child of a mouse and calculator, it’s Canon’s first model in its legendary X-series of calculators. Can I hear some love from the accountants, please? More »


Gadgets

DIY Graphing Calculator Is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur

1:00AM August 6, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Who needs Texas Instruments? Not Matt Stack, creator of the Open SciCal. His home-made, 100 per cent open-source graphing calculator not only blows away the functionality of store-bought devices, but is the “ultimate status symbol among the nerdiest of the nerds”. More »