technabob.com - 12/5/2008
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I can’t decide what I like best about this “unique” calculator from Japan. I’m torn between the keyboard that’s arranged into a completely non-standard configuration that’s sure to trip up even the speediest touch-typists, or the calculator’s ...
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Takumi Crash Calculator Is Life in a Plastic Box [Gadgets]
Gizmodo —
This Takumi calculator is a perfect metaphor of life: Its layout looks like a puzzle and when you try to solve any problem, it crashes at random. Can't get any better than that for $60. Unless it spontaneously bursts in flames. [Idea Frames via Technabob]
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Crash calculator constantly crashes, costs more than a functioning one
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... the Takumi Corporation, with a random squirting of Engrish:
Everybody has an impulse to CRASH! We seek for the excitement of crashing in this calculator. You will be driven to crashing with the unpredictable action it makes. Calculate to crash, get an answer to crash… Enjoy yourself by operating this uncontroll”
I think that's actually a quote from J.G. Ballard run back and forth through the intestines of an English to Japanese babelfish.
crazy calculator constantly crashes [technabob]
Takumi Crash Calculator
Gadget Venue —
... The Crash Calculator is labelled as being able to randomly crash… just for fun… because everybody has an impulse to crash once in a while. I am not sure I like this idea yet of solving some maths calculation and BAM… I have to start again. No doubt though that the complicated keypad layout probably wouldn’t allow you to get close enough to solve an equation anyway, so crash or no crash, it wouldn’t matter.
Would you buy one of these?
Via: TechNaBob
Written by Gadget Venue.
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