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COMPUTEX 2007 Preview: Useless additions to peripherals - Pt1

by Nick Haywood on 4 June 2007, 05:47

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From the school of re-inventing the wheel...

Computex 2007You can't help wondering why companies come up with some of the products they do?

Ideas at COMPUTEX 2007 range from the downright strange (flavoured screen-wipes) to the plain daft, such as the KB-2100 LCD calculator keyboard. Try as I might, I just can't imagine what you'd want one of these for when there's been a perfectly good calculator built into every copy of Windows since 3.1 and probably before then.



I dunno, maybe I just can't see it. But think about it. If you were an accountant you'd have a separate calculator with larger buttons. And if you were doing some advanced maths you'd have a hugely complex calculator, (as well as a massive blackboard and complete ineptitude around women), so who's going to want this?

About the only use I can think of is that you can type in 5138008 and write BOOBIES upside down… which is something to do other than play Minesweeper all day.

What's next? A full HD panel for the blind? A USB 2.0 tool for removing stones from horses hooves?

Check back soon for more in this infrequent series. You never know, I might find a WiFi fishing rod.





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You can't help wondering why companies come up with some of the products they do?

Ideas at COMPUTEX 2007 range from the downright strange (flavoured screen-wipes) to the plain daft, such as the KB-2100 LCD calculator keyboard.

Discover more in this Computex 2007 Preview headline.

I have the ultimate use for this keyboard; something that consistantly bugs me.

Working out clock speeds & multipliers & dividers and so forth, from the bios… assuming the calculator doesnt require anything other than usb power from the PC ofc :p
Yes, if the calculator operated without the machine being booted up then it might have some limited use. Otherwise…