Five hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...

Back in the ancient days of yesteryear, calculators were physical devices with buttons. Now they’ve been replaced by the phone in your pocket. If you miss those days, but still like your phone, this ...

The FPGA revolution that occurred within the past few decades was a boon to many people interested in “antique” electronics. The devices “wire together” logic elements as needed rather than emulating ...

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There’s something about Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) and the calculators that use it. It calls to mind a time when a calculator was a serious tool, and not just a throwaway toy. Created in the legacy ...

Iofree has created a new retro mechanical calculator called the Digit which it has launched via Kickstarter this week and already blasted past its required pledge goal thanks to over 450 backers with ...

It's not just us that can freak out when we can't solve a complex maths problem. The answer to 'what is one divided by zero?' causes old-fashioned calculators to have a mechanical meltdown. A video ...

For a brief time in the 1970s, the calculator represented the height of office design chic. Desktop calculators came in pops of primary colors or encased in wood paneling. They were expensive. Elite.

Everyone learns in grade school that you can’t divide by zero, but few of us ever learn (or fully understand) why. The stock answer is that it gives you an answer of infinity. The truth is a bit more ...

Joe Jonas and his band, DNCE, have taken Rihanna's "Work" to a whole new level! On Tuesday, the pop rock band released a much more safe for work video of the catchy single from RiRi's ANTI-- ...