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furniture

Numeric Keypad Chairs Provide Computational Comfort

These numeric keypad chairs are pretty amazing in a nerd chic sort of way. If you tried cramming these into your 700-square-foot bachelor pad, you'd look like the biggest tool alive. But in a place with a million square feet and that white, minimalist vibe, they'd be pretty amazing. These appear to be concepts, but the obscure Japanese site they came from makes it hard to tell. [PantoGraph via misterstarfish via Technabob]

3:30 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Adrian Covert
4,338 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: 5318008 more »

notes

Notes: The Brazilian Band Called Inimigos da HP (Translation: Enemies of HP)

On my last day in São Paulo, the good people we were working with on an upcoming Portuguese version of Giz with took us to some nightclub with an open roof and lots of beautiful younger people dancing and making out. Anyhow, here's the gadget party of this story: There was a band there playing called Inimigos da HP, or Enemies of HP. Yes, that HP. Apparently the members started playing together in college, but are mostly former engineers and industrial designers who were forced in their previously not-rockstar life to use HP calcs every day. I like their music. Now I'm in Rio, taking a long weekend. Going to the beach. I should have played more Wii Fit. [Wiki, Amazon] More »

9:35 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Brian Lam
2,687 views, 40 comments

Latest by MarcelaSS: i had been wondering if this was ever going to get mentioned on a gadget site! more »

retromodo

Video: Charles Babbage's Difference Machine No. 2 Fully Operational

For those who haven't yet heard, a band of number-crunching nostalgists took the concept design for Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, and turned it into a real, fully functional machine. But what really makes the Difference Engine amazing is only noticed when you watch its thousands of moving parts in action. Upon first glance, the Difference Engine looks a bit chaotic. But upon closer inspection, it moves with the precision of a Swiss watch while maintaining the fluid motion of a wave about to break. And today, it went on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. More »

5:27 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Adrian Covert
9,019 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: Giz, we demand this flv player of yours to have a "full screen" button. Yes, we do. more »

clips

Make a Metal Detector For Like 5 Bucks and 2 Minutes

We'll admit it: we'll lack the ambition to perform most of the hacks you read about on Giz. But taping a calculator to an AM radio to make a metal detector? That's right up our alley. And by "right up our alley" we mean probably still too much effort...but not by much.

4:10 PM on Sat Nov 24 2007
By Mark Wilson
16,830 views, 32 comments

dept. of dumb

Digital Card Calculator Spycam Is Sneaky Circa 1985

You're in a hotel lobby when your mark walks in. You pull out the Digital Card Calculator Camera and pretend to casually crunch sums, while in reality you are snapping Top Secret Digital Photographs. Your target would only know you're a spy if he/she spots the enormous VGA lens and bezel right next to the keypad. It's a good thing, then, that you're reasonably inconspicuous in trenchcoat and matching fedora. A technical question, though: if it's got a lithium-ion battery for the camera and a 1.5V button battery for the calculator, how's come the solar panels? More cloak n' dagger deception, I imagine. [crimebusters911.com via OhGizmo]

10:45 AM on Mon Oct 1 2007
By Wilson Rothman
1,541 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: OMG they managed to hide a calculator on that camera!!N!O@I@#v2wvi more »

food

Chocolate Calculator Counts Calories

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]

3:20 PM on Fri Aug 24 2007
By Jason Chen
2,194 views, 16 comments

Latest by gundamsdontkillpeople: The LCD portion is edible too? Looks like something you would cut your throat on. more »

digital stripper

FIC's New UMPC Comes with Detachable Components

The folks at FIC are giving UMPCs a different spin. Their new handheld comes with a detachable module that can hold components like a GPS system, cellphone, and, er, a calculator (like the sample in this pic). I'm not sure I'd want a UMPC with detachable components, but conceptually, I give props to FIC for being a little different. The Nanobook weighs 2.2 pounds and packs a nice-looking 7-inch screen. No word on availability yet. – Louis Ramirez More »

4:00 PM on Wed Jun 6 2007
By Louis Ramirez
2,200 views, 11 comments

Latest by slip: Seems to me this module is mostly a way to make the screen not look small. The keyboard width is greater than the width of the screen, so if they didn't put something there, it would look like the screen more »

calctech

Wireless Texas Instruments Calculators Allows Teachers to Monitor Students' Work

Navigator.jpegNowadays, 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. More »

1:24 PM on Tue May 15 2007
By Travis Hudson
1,747 views, 16 comments

Latest by Worf: ... And sales of HP calculators suddenly increase ... Though, if you were smart enough to know about HP calculators, then I guess you wouldn't need stuff like this. Nevermind the sheer pleasure of seeing the looks on other people's faces more »

gadgets

Choc-U-lator: Sadly, Not What You're Thinking

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. More »

2:30 PM on Sun Apr 22 2007
By Matt Buchanan
4,330 views, 16 comments

gadgets

Collection of Soviet Era Calculators

When they weren't busy hating freedom and plotting the destruction of sweet, sweet capitalism, the Soviets made some pretty decent hardware, calculators included. Granted, they're all from the same company—Electronika—but what else would you expect from a command economy? There's a few more choice shots after the jump. More »

8:05 AM on Thu Feb 15 2007
By Gizloco
316 views, 19 comments

gadgets

Over One Billion Sold...Calculators

Back in 1957, Casio invented the first fully electric compact relay calculator. It took 50 years, but Casio has just announced that they've sold one billion calculators worldwide. And it's a good thing they developed calculators, because one billion would have taken Casio 31 years to count manually. More »

10:16 AM on Sat Jan 20 2007
By Mark Wilson
728 views, 30 comments

feature

Low End Theory: Land of Contrasts, and of Calculators


By Brendan I. Koerner More »

Feature

eggulator

The Eggulator - Who Doesn't Like Eggs...In Calculators?

One day I will write my own coffee table book featuring obnoxious calculators from around the world, but until then, we have the Eggulator. The name "Eggulator" is actually the clever amalgamation of the words "egg" and "calculator". The keys resemble eggs. More »

2:39 PM on Sun Nov 5 2006
By Mark Wilson
445 views, 13 comments

gadgets

HP 50g Calculator Makes Nerds Pee Themselves

HP released their latest graphic calculator, the 50g, last week and this thing is tech'd out to all hell. The can connect to this calculator via a variety of ways—infrared, USB, serial (you kidding me? Serial ports still exist?) and SD memory. According to Erica over at CNET News, this calculator can even calculate in Reverse Polish Notation. Now I don't have the slightest clue what the means, but it sure sounds fancy. More »

2:51 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Travis Hudson
7,277 views, 30 comments

gadgets

Casio ClassPad 300 Touch-Screen Graphic Calculator

Hot diggity damn, kids these days get the coolest learning gadgets. The ClassPad 300 is a graphing calculator that has a superb 160x120 pixel touch screen. It lets you enter equations via handwriting and better yet, draw boobies on the touch screen for all kinds of giggling fun. The drag-and-drop feature also makes the interface very easy to use. The ClassPad 300 is available for $150 over at the 'Zon. – Travis Hudson More »

2:19 PM on Fri Jul 28 2006
By Travis Hudson
725 views, 9 comments

gadgets

When Sliderules Ruled the Earth

TR3-2.jpegSo sad. Saffo has an interesting examination of the TR3, a calculator with a vestigial sliderule on the back. This strange creature was created as a "bridge" technology for sliderule manufacturers to work their way into the calculator market that was fast destroying their bottom line. More »

12:07 PM on Tue Mar 21 2006
By johnb
216 views, 3 comments

colums

Gizmodo Gallery: Amos Latteier


Prosthetic Ass (Latteier, 2000) More »

gadgets

Shake-U-Later

A lot of normal, basic calculators these days tend to be solar powered. But some of us don't get to see light much when we're trapped in a dungeon four stories below the surface without a computer. So when I heard about a calculator that could be powered by just shaking it, I became absolutely ecstatic. Now I can give it a few shakes and I'm ready to do my calculations. I quietly looked around and pulled out a 10 pound note from my sock and slipped it to the guard. "That Shake-u-lator Calculator costs 9.99. Get me one....please." I cried. He nodded in agreement and walked away. I knew the rest of my jail term would be easier now that I had a calculator I could shake to power up, turn upside down and spell "boobies" with. More »

2:17 PM on Tue Nov 8 2005
By gizmodo.com
92 views, 8 comments

Latest by PMonkey: Pee-Power? Ok, first of all, it's been done. Second, exactly how would all of those wonderful female humans out there use such a device? It would not be nearly as convenient, or as sanitary, for them as it would more »

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