A beautiful calculator

Photo: Mark Weiss, used with permission.

Amadana makes gorgeous oldschool gadgets, and photographer Mark Weiss knows how to shoot them. Also, fruit! Just look at this one.

• [paboo]

  Dolly Parton’s boobs weigh 69 pounds…

• [Neon Tooth]

  Ha,
  Desk is *exact* same faux-finish as my ancient office desk.

• [sdmikev]

  an ironic calculator for 75 bucks. sweet.

• [Church]

  58008:calculators::Ten after ten:watches

• [tallpat]

  5318008 > 58008

  • [Anonymous]

    58008.618

  • [Dewi Morgan]

    But interestingly, 55378008 < 5318008.

    Another I remember from my childhood: 710.77345, 37816173, 317.37818, ll345663, 3631538, 53704.304…

    Though I’m not one who 53553580 over this stuff. Honest.

    • [atomix]

      Wow. With dedication like that, 58008 must be your only opportunity to see them, huh?

• [Anonymous]

  I always did 55378008, but 58008 and 5318008 work too!

• [ian_b]

  “For your competency
  We have reviewed the functions that a calculator should have. This product can be an encouraging partner to satisfy all your needs.”

  This site is full of wonderfully awkward Japanese translations.

• [Phil85]

  This calculator looks nice but i do like this gimicky water powered calculator that I saw.

• [Anonymous]

  That’s an expensive calculator. $76!!

• [LILemming]

  In a similar vein, I’d love to find a US vendor for these:

  http://www.evereadyindustries.com/business/flashlights/brass-torch.asp

• [LILemming]

  Urk, sorry, I mean the LED version

  http://www.evereadyindustries.com/business/flashlights/led-torches.asp

• [Anonymous]

  Any calculator worthy of my attention must have the following buttons: AND, XOR, OR, NOT, factorial, AshiftL, AshiftR, Rotate, and A through F. It must have the ability to change the register width, and it must be able to display in binary, hex, octal or decimal at the touch of a button. It must be able to calculate 1′s and 2′s complements. It must NOT have any useless crap like trig functions, graphing, or “scientific” notation. Programmability is not required.

  Oh, wait, there’s only one calculator ever made that was like that.

  http://www.devidts.com/be-calc/poc_13622.html

  Now that’s beautiful!

• [assumetehposition]

  I tried using an old calculator like this at work — it looked so cool — but I forgot how much solar technology had progressed since then. It would barely function outside of direct sunlight.

• [Tek3D]

  Oh, I can’t understand the meaning of the picture until reading your comments :)

• [Dewi Morgan]

  I meant “interestingly, 55378008 < 5318008″, sorry (darn filter).

• [xf6211]

  I was very much up for purchasing one of these with all possible expediency. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem you can buy them through the site. :(

• [Anonymous]

  Sex-deprived NEEEEEERRRDZ!

  • [The Chemist]

    I’d be offended, but I’ll need you to spell that out for me on a TI-83 without using the ALPHA button, first.

• [The Chemist]

  Ah, I remember 55378008. Hilarious though it was, I remember thinking to myself, “Who the fuck thought that one up?”

  I just which more basic calculators like this had the factorial function and better memory. It’d make it easier for people who know how to calculate things like sines, logarithms and other wacky functions, but don’t need a big honking calculator to do it.

  • [AnthonyC]

    “I just which more basic calculators like this had the factorial function and better memory. It’d make it easier for people who know how to calculate things like sines, logarithms and other wacky functions, but don’t need a big honking calculator to do it.”

    This is what google is for. Ridiculous example: search

    speed of light * planck constant / radius of jupiter * sin(pi/4) /6!

    • [The Chemist]

      May I acquaint you with Wolfram Alpha? And the specific heat capacity of chicken?

• [That Evening Sun]

  Hey! If you were to turn that calculator upside down, it would say “BOOBS”.

  Haha. BOOBS. Haha.

  • [mdh]

    hahah BOOBS hahah

• [Michael Smith]

  I wonder how many people today understand why the plus key is bigger than the others?

• [spike55151]

  I do this every time I photograph a calculator!

• [gregnnn]

  Don’t miss the cautions at the bottom of the product page.

• [Anonymous]

  At first glance of the image I thought it was a screengrab of an iPad app. I wish it was.

• [Anonymous]

  maybe it is just me, but the geometry of that picture seems to be that sort of optical illusion as in the tramtracks (one line seems longer than the other but in fact is equal):
  the calculator (to me) looks off-center. but it is perfectly in the center.
  the calculator looks a bit askew. but in fact it is totally parallel to the sides.

  or am i wrong?