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Doom Plays on Calculators, Now in Color

This new calculator mod allows you to play Doom…, not in monochrome, but in glorious color. There’s no sound in the game yet though, as the mod is still in the development stage. It runs on the Texas Instruments TI-nspire CX calculator with OS 3.1 and Ndless 3 running

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January 20th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

World’s Cheapest iPad Only Runs One App

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With Apple’s wildly successful iPad, everyone and their brother wants a piece of the now lucrative tablet market. Even the low end of the market wants to get in on the action. Take, for instance, this ridiculous Chinese calculator designed to look (sorta) like an iPad.

You’ll notice from the…

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August 29th, 2011 by: Technabob

Smart String Upstages Your Ordinary Measuring Tape

Smart String

Who would think that the day would come that measuring tapes would be rendered, well, second rate or second class when it comes to measuring? After all, that was the only reason and purpose for which they were created.…

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August 19th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Canon X Mark I Mouse Lite with Built-in Numeric Keyboard: Too Many Buttons or Just Enough?

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While OS X Lion updates all of the multi-touch gestures available for Mac computers, but (at least for now) people who have PCs still need  buttons on their mice. This mouse, called the X Mark I Lite, was recently released by Canon and comes with an integrated 10-digit calculator or…

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July 27th, 2011 by: Range

Wrongulator Guaranteed to Be Incorrect 101% of the Time

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Do you hate the guys in your company’s finance department? Are they always making it a pain in the ass for you to get your invoices paid, or make purchases? Here’s your chance to get sweet, sweet revenge.…

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July 25th, 2011 by: Technabob

Turn Your iPhone into a Retro Calculator

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Here’s a fun way to fool your friends into thinking you’re still living in the 1970s by turning your shiny new iPhone 4 into a classic digital calculator from days gone by. This case snaps onto the back of your iPhone 4, and really does look just like one of…

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May 24th, 2011 by: Technabob

Kokuyo’s X-ViZ Calculator Transforms You Into a One-Handed Math Whiz

Kokuyo X-ViZ Calculator

Let me get this bit about me out into the open: I love calculators. I’m obsessed with them, especially scientific calculators. I blame my fixation on these calculators on Chemical Engineering, the course I took up in college. Time is of the essence, and the better the calculator, the more…

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April 26th, 2011 by: Hazel Chua

Bring Tim! Tells You Exactly How Much Money was Just Wasted in That Meeting You Sat in

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Given the fact that I’ve probably spent at least a gazillion hours in my professional careers sitting in mind-numbing meetings, this device is definitely something that I need.

The $25 Bring Tim! timer should be standard issue in every corporate conference room. Just punch in an average hourly rate for…

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April 15th, 2010 by: Technabob

Gameboy Hidden Inside a Calculator

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In this era of mobile and handheld gaming, it’s becoming harder to hide your in-class distractions. But no one ever suspects the calculator…; a student clutching a phone is clearly messing around, but someone with a calculator? Just a diligent student, naturally. Unless that calculator happens to be hiding

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December 18th, 2009 by: Alisha K.

X-Cool Calculator Looks Like a Game Controller, Plays No Games

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For our latest edition of “why? why not?” comes this basic calculator that does nothing special other than the fact that it looks like a game controller.

The X-Cool Calculator looks like something you might play some old Genesis or SNES games with, but it really just does basic math.…

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December 18th, 2009 by: Technabob

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