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No matter how much you try and dress it up like a game, A calculator is still a calculator and math is still math. Of course, I still add and subtract with my fingers so I could only play 2-player games on something like this and let my buddy do all the work.
(Freeman Games Flickr via Tiny Cartridge via The Daily What)
Unfortunately, Math: The Video Game has a serious uphill battle ahead of it. On the other hand, the X-Cool calculator might come in handy as a gaming training aid that you can practice with at school or at the office.
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It’s a Lego, it’s a calculator, it’s all kinds of fun. Although I’d imagine it’s still not enjoyable enough to make people actually want to do math. In today’s world, if you really want to get some interest going, you’d have to create something like a breast shaped calculator that has 24 pressable, problem solving nipples. That would be money in the bank, my friend.
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Needless to say, you have to be a balls out math dork to apply these add, subtract, multiply and divide suction cup hooks to you wall.
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You work or go to school all day and likely have to use math to get through it all. There is no reason that your drinking experience should be any different. Get yourself a set of these Placemath coasters and fight over who gets to be the multiplication and addition signs. No one wants to have to be stuck with the lousy minus and division symbols. Available in charcoal, red, blue and green.
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A great gift for the pregnant woman, it measures your weight by showing expanding waistline pictures spaced at 20 pound intervals. It is probably an even better gift for the beer drinking aficionado whose belly is likely expanding at least as fast as the pregnant lady. If my math is correct, this scale would show her going from 120 to 200 pounds in the course of her pregnancy. I am no doctor, but that seems just a little bit high to me.
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From Fashionably Geek: As many of you have heard, Sarah Palin is an NRA member and an avid hunter. Here we see her after bagging the wily and elusive Democratic Donkey. What you don’t see is the aftermath where she goes in face first, tearing at the flesh with her teeth like a starving animal. With blood dripping from her mouth, she celebrates the kill by howling at the moon.
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I am horrible at math, which is why the pop quiz clock is appealing to me. It makes me feel a lot smarter than I really am.
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Here are the top ten Nerd Approved Gadgets for the week of June 2nd to June 8th 2008:
Duct Tape Roses: Even mechanics will get misty.
Portable Humidifier: Just insert a standard water bottle.
Chug a Lug LED Bottle Opener: It takes the thinkin’ out of drinkin’.
Frank Farter Dog: This tighty whitey wearing dog will sing for you…with his butt.
Mathmos Revolution: The dead rise from the grave to haunt your candle holder.
The next five gadgets are available after the break…
When two tea lights in the center of the Mathmos candle are lit, the heat energy produced by the flame rises to the top and spins small, angled blades. The blades are connected to a series of skeletal horsemen cutouts that move without being touched—creeping out all who gaze upon it.
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