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Casio's Prizm Commands Respect for Neglected Graphing Calculators

by Warren Riddle on October 10, 2010 at 02:00 PM

casio prizmConfronted with an ongoing app revolution and a prosperous surge of versatile handheld devices, calculators may seem condemned to being bygone gadgets of yore. A defiant and inspired Casio, however, apparently believes its calculators -- equipped with new, cutting-edge capabilities -- remain highly relevant and necessary mathematical tools.

Older fogies (especially the bumbling ones who -- decades ago -- were unduly forced into Calculus and Physics classes) probably still remember and celebrate the arrival of the first graphic calculators. Casio's new full-color Prizm device absolutely makes those once-crucial aids appear comically archaic. It might not be as aesthetically cool as Andy Aaron's handmade Victorian throwbacks, but the Prizm does perform one particularly incredible task. It, of course, plots graphs, but it also allows users to trace lines and arcs on actual photographs. It then awesomely determines the equations for those lines.

And, for the old-school slackers, doodlers and clock-watchers, you can still spell out four-letter words using only the number keys.

Casio Prizm


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