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more about #texasinstruments Canoehead: What is it with Bluetooth and battery drain? The Apple BT keyboard uses 3 AAs and those last maybe a couple of months at best. My Logitech RF keyboa... more » Uncletwitch001: Too bad they can't figure out a way for battery current to charge the battery at the sametime... Sort of a perpetual battery more » chocolatebanana: I'm not sure I'd want something that I "don't need to recharge", because that means I'd have to go buy replacement batteries. That doesn't seem like a... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: So now we will have to block out the sun for longer to stop the terminators from communicating with each other. Great. #newbluetooth more » Brdf: I don't think it's that TI is philosophically opposed to hacking, as that, should it become common knowledge that their calculators can run homebrew, ... more » BLToday: HP and RPN forever!!! more » TheSonOfKrypton: Um. No. I love my 3GS, but any field which requires a nice TI calculator (83's....89's....) will also require the ability to look at your paper full... more » Odin: Plus yknow as much as Giz may like to think so not everyone under the sun has an iWhatever. more » Twanzio: But can it play Drug Wars? more » djchaser: You're kidding right? Back in 9th grade, like 15 years ago, I used my TI-82 to cheat on math tests...as did everyone else in the class! How the teac... more » TeriPolydorus: Give me a TI83 app and I'm sold more » NeoAkira: "TI suggests that people still buy actual calculators because test givers prohibit students from whipping out their iPhones. So there's at least one s... more » Joe Rider: they will, because A) 9th graders for the most part don't have an iphone and B) there is no way in hell any teacher, any grade will let a student use ... more » infmom: Pfft. They should have used a Commodore 64. Those things knew how to rock. more » P3nnst8r: I thought the oscilloscope shredded pretty hard, but the flatbed really failed to impress. Vocal and time signature lessons could be of use. 3 stars. more » Curves: I loved this! I sang along the whole video. Unlike most of the people here, I was alive when this type of equipment was cutting edge technology and wh... more » OMG! Ponies!: Thank you Jack. That is one of the best things I have ever seen on the internet. more » piano08man: I thought that was complete and utter shit that a 6 year old put together. If you're going to be a complete loser and take the time to put something... more » ★☆★ Waka ★☆★: People have way too much time in their hands. Imagine if the people behind the internet did something productive instead... more » bosskev: 100% artificial Queen, artfully mimicking the real thing. Could just as accurately be describing residents of my San Francisco neighborhood. more » -
#bluetooth
New Bluetooth Runs for a Year Off a Watch Battery
There's little stopping Bluetooth from making its way into more devices, but its battery drain is many times that of, say, tried and true IR. But a new, lower power Bluetooth is coming next year. More » -
#remainders
Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
Do Mac sales spike with the release of a new Windows OS?...Texas Instruments continues war against calculator modders...Vespa rocking horse is totally adorable...Hydrogen-powered UAV stays aloft for more than 23 hours straight... More » -
#iphoneapps
TI Turns $30 Calculator Into $15 iPhone App, Swears People Still Pay for Real Deal
The hallowed Texas Instruments BA II Plus financial calculator, selling for $30 at Walmart, is now a reasonably identical iPhone app, selling for $15. But TI says that fears of cheating will keep standalone calcs selling for years to come. More » -
#android
Archos Event Invitation Unsubtly Hints at Rumored Android MID
On its own, it's a stretch: the invite is green and vaguely Android-y, and there's a faint rectangular device in the background, therefore Archos must be working on an Android MID! Right? Well, they are. More » -
#music
Old School Computer Band Rocks Bohemian Rhapsody (Poorly)
I can't think of a more old school, geeky tribute to Queen than a band comprised of an Atari 800XL, 8-inch floppy disk, 3.5-in hard drive and HP Scanjet 3C. If only it sounded better. More » -
#projectors
New Pico Projectors Offer DVD-Quality Resolution
Guess which version is the second gen DLP Pico projector. (Hint: It's the smaller one on the right that's better in every way.) More » -
#microchip
The Microchip Turns 50 Today, Here's the Original
50 years ago today, Texas Instrument's Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit, or microchip. It's a crude conglomeration of just five components, but it was also proof that a circuit could be miniaturized by housing all of its components on one piece of semiconductor material, allowing all these parts to work together without laborious (and technologically infeasible) manual connections. In essence, it's the electronic wheel captured in first eureka. [Wired] -
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#gadgets
Home-Made Synths from Tupperware Trip the Light Fan-Plastic
This is what you do if you think that your Tupperware boxes are too good for food, turn them into home-made synthesizers. Adachi Tomomi has made a bunch of them, including a video synthesizer and a couple of Theremins. Consisting of a simple battery-powered electronic circuit, the synths don't have perfect pitch. The Tomomin (bottom left in the gallery) even has a four-note keyboard, and was made from a bunch of Texas Instrument integrated circuits. [Adachi Tomomi via Make ] More »
