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Portal Comes to Graphing Calculators, Makes Them Useful Again

by Glen Tickle Dec 4th

A few weeks ago I may have said some unkind things about graphing calculators and their place in these modern times, but that was before I saw this version of Portal. That's right, someone has released a version of Portal for the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators. Games are nothing new to the world of graphing calculators, but this makes me want to go back and not pay attention in math class all over again.

Graphing Calculator Gets First Update In A Billion Years, Still Costs Almost As Much As A Chromebook

by Glen Tickle Nov 13th

Groundbreaking news in the world of graphing calculators! Tech Powered Math is reporting that the rumors of a Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator with a color screen are true! Can you believe it? A handheld device that does math and has a color screen! We truly live in the future! Who would have imagined such a thing was even possible. Oh, excuse me, I have a call coming in on my mobile telephone that has a color screen, and does math, and is with me everywhere I go. OK. Back. Where was I? Oh yeah. Calculators!

Skyrim on a TI-84 Calculator is a Noble Effort

by James Plafke Jan 20th

YouTuber no9sniper took it upon himself to bring Bethesda's open world epic, Skyrim, to the platform that needed it most: The TI-84 calculator. His conversion isn't like all of those DOOM ports you see running on graphing calculators -- this one is more like an old BBS door game or Kingdom of Loathing, where the player simply picks options from menus to play, rather than controls anything in real time. Door games are secretly still fun, and Kingdom of Loathing is going strong, so there might be a place for no9sniper's calculator Skyrim -- probably in math class. Head on past the break to check out a video of calculator Skyrim in action.

Google Adds Graphing Calculator to Search Results

by James Plafke Dec 6th

Google has announced that they've added graphing calculator functionality right into search results. To use the new feature, a user must simply type a function into the search bar, click search, and the engine will do your math for you, and display the results in a tidy, graphical format.