DIY Homemade Scientific Calculator

Inevati Systems Builds a Reverse Polish Scientific Calculator Meant to Last for Decades

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DIY Homemade Scientific Calculator
Used copies of the HP 35s now clear two hundred dollars, and the SwissMicros machines that carried the reverse Polish habit forward sit even higher, around three hundred ten dollars for a 42n. Inevati Systems wanted that kind of calculator back: programmable, comfortable on an engineering exam, able to graph, handle matrices, store expressions, solve equations, and take input in reverse Polish notation or ordinary algebraic entry. Buying one was out of reach. Building one became the project, and this first video is the hardware half of that work.

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Chip PC Technologies Jack PC Wall Outlet Computer

Jack PC Packed a Whole Office Computer Into a Wall Jack in 2006

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Chip PC Technologies Jack PC Wall Outlet Computer
Back in the middle of 2006, a small company called Chip PC Technologies started shipping a computer that vanished into the wall. Jack PC occupied the same opening as a standard network jack, behind a faceplate barely larger than a light-switch cover, and every port a desk worker needed sat on that plate. Offices were paying for floor space by the square foot, and a tower under every desk ate room, power, and repair hours. Chip PC, founded in 2000 and based in Ness Ziona, built thin clients for companies that already ran Citrix or Microsoft terminal servers.

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ClearTunes Prison Handheld Game Console

ClearTunes Sold Prisoners a See Through Handheld and Fifty Unlicensed Games

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ClearTunes Prison Handheld Game Console
Eternal Electronics spent a while looking for a ClearTunes handheld before one finally reached the bench. Commissary sheets from the early 2010s listed it next to socks and typewriters, a small plastic game machine built for jails and prisons rather than a store shelf. ClearTunes already supplied those facilities with radios, alarm clocks, and flat televisions, every one of them sealed in a shell you can see straight through.

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ChatGPT OpenAI GPT-6 Astra World of Warcraft WoW

GPT-6 Astra Clears World of Warcraft Orc Quests Without Ever Seeing the Screen

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ChatGPT OpenAI GPT-6 Astra World of Warcraft WoW
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra finished every quest in World of Warcraft’s orc starting area in 40 minutes and never died once. A level 1 orc walked out of the Valley of Trials and into Sen’jin Village with the full list checked off, and the model never looked at a single frame of the game. The run sits on a private server, driven by the open-source agent-wow client, and the whole job began as one line typed into Codex.

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