They long ago outlived every phone, calculator and computer of their generation. These days, you’ll still see them prominently displayed on the desks of many certified financial planners. But if you ...

Hewlett-Packard has given new life to its calculator history through applications for the iPhone and Windows. They're practical, but not cheap. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

I have to go buy a new calculator for my combinatorics class, as well as for the physics classes I'm teaching next year. While my old HP 48G still works, it lacks the connectivity options I need for ...

If you hate the iPhone’s built-in calculator and long for your old HP calculator with its programmable goodness and fancy built-in algorithms, you can now download three classic apps from the iTunes ...

HP may or may not be dumping its PC business, and it may have messed up its hardware future in a post-PC world, but the company still knows what's important. A new handheld from the Palo Alto company ...

Believe it or not, there are some retro gadgets that are even too old for us. So we must seize on them while we can, because soon the only machines that will fall into this category will be from the ...

Fifty years ago, Hewlett-Packard introduced the first handheld scientific calculator, the HP-35. It was quite the engineering feat, since equivalent machines of the day were bulky desktop affairs, if ...

Pictured above is the HP-35, Hewlett-Packard’s first pocket calculator and the world’s first scientific pocket calculator. The HP-35 was available from 1972 to 1975, and retailed then for $395 (more ...

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 ...

We take wireless charging for granted with many of the gadgets we use today, such as smartphones, among others. Four decades ago, electronics like calculators were relatively new inventions, and most ...

Time was, back in the early 1970s, calculator chips were the ultimate proof of semiconductor manufacturing prowess. Many 4-banger (add, subtract, multiply, divide), battery-powered, handheld ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, the first US law setting child-safety rules for AI chatbots, from crisis redirects to transparency requirements. Hollywood pushes back against OpenAI’s Sora 2 as ...