Written on December 7, 2008 – 10:22 am | by Maria Mihale |


I remember the accounting courses I’ve had in the past years when having a calculator was imperatively necessary, as difficult operations couldn’t be done in mind. I also remember the despair resulted from crashed calculations, when there wasn’t any solution at our disposal to help us repair the bad thing that unexpectedly happened.

This is why I don’t understand why someone would buy a device that is specifically designed to crash itself whenever if feels like it. It’s outrageous, if you ask me, as I can’t find a logical reason for someone to enjoy repeating never-ending reckonings. More than this, I wonder why a brilliant mind would decide to design and develop such a device, hoping for people to consider the invention as a useful one. Beats me!



Anyway, Takumi Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer, came up with the strangest calculator of them all, called the Crash Calculator. Let’s assume that, by some miracle, you could ignore the unusual keyboard that is far from being a standard and user-friendly one, as it looks rather like an unsuccessful Tetris game than like what is supposed to be, and that you can even succeed to navigate the keys. Still, I’m sure you won’t resist the personality crisis of the keyboard, eager to show you who the boss is. You’re so wrong if a crazy thought like you’re the one who’s being in charge has dared to cross your mind.

The point is the keyboard has indeed too much personality and crashes all of a sudden, making you lose your numbers and repeat the whole thing once again. Once, if you’re lucky, I guess. But listen to what the manufacturer has to say about the Crash Calculator and the reasons that led to such a device: “Everybody has an impulse to CRASH! We seek for the excitement of crashing in this calculator. You will be driven to crashing with the unpredictable action it makes. Calculate to crash, get an answer to crash… Enjoy yourself by operating this uncontroll”. It still doesn’t make sense to me.

Anyway, if you want to enjoy free pain and tons of tantrums, then go grab this crazy calculator from Idea Frames. You’ll find it in three different colors, black, orange and light grey and you might be surprised that it costs more than the “obedient” version, less insane, of course. $60. Expensive?

(Source: gadgets.boingboing.net)