More from plusminuszero: the Japanese design company also launched this credit card-sized calculator in Milan last month.
Called Electronic Calculator XS, the product is solar-powered and joins the existing S and M calculators in the plusminuszero range.
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Here's some more information from plusminuszero:
Joining the S and M size electronic calculators is the new card-size XS calculator. Rounding off all the corners and edges of a card-size calculator that seems available everywhere gives this ±0 Electronic Calculator XS a gentle shape that is not at all like an ordinary card-size calculator. Experience its attractive touch and feel.
Features:
- Slim card-size Calculator
- Rounding off all the corners and edges
- Solar Cell Battery
- 8 digits
- Auto power off
Color: White / Black / Yellow / Red / Green
Display: LCD
Number of digits displayed: 8
Calculation functions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, constant calculation, memory calculation, percentages etc.
Power source: Solar cell
Dimensions: H54.2 x W85.7 x D3.2mm
Weight: approx. 17g
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Hmmm, what is new / special about this?
please explain why is “not at all like an ordinary card-size calculator”, because it is dangerously resembling of the ones everybody had 20 years ago, except that 20 years ago it felt so cool to have such a portable advanced technology
What irrelevant product category is next, a plusminuszero butter churner?
WOW! what would they think of next?
Wow, super lame! I got one of these for signing up for my first (and last) savings account when I was eight, in a town with no stoplights, in rural Wisconsin.
rounded corners omg
Is it April one again?
‘is not at all like an ordinary card-size calculator’
it is exactly like an ordinary card sized calculator.
Amazing what you can do when you have a ” Name”.
Okay Lark… we get it ….you also lived in a dugout tree?
Looks exactly like the BRAUN one circa 1980
Supernormal, superpisstake
Here it is, the BRAUN solar card 1987 by Dietrich Lubs
http://www.dentaku-museum.com/calc/calculator/braun/st1/b-1.jpg
the negativity of the submitted comments… please do not overlook the ‘hi tech’ solar cell!
Will it break in my wallet?
I really like Naoto Fukasawa but this is just pointless nowadays…every phone has a calculator so why would you carry one around in your wallet/purse??
Just when I was thinking “The eighties called, they want their calculators back” it struck me that this is of course clever retro-design. Well done!
Nail these frauds to a tree, it’s a disgrace: “Rounding off all the corners and edges of a card-size calculator that seems available everywhere gives this ±0 Electronic Calculator XS a gentle shape that is not at all like an ordinary card-size calculator.”
Thanks for the LOL.
This is a good example of the hip contemporary minimalism trend. Hopefully its over soon..
Really, I can´t undertsand the innovative spect of this calculator. I swear that I had one like this 20 years ago!
this is a designer’s mental masturbation.
1200Y = ~$12
plusminuszero prices their item way too much. This will be good design if it was dirt cheap.
Really cool thing, makes you feel like it’s 1987 again.
it’s a trick. for sure on the backside you can find a cell phone, camera and a tape recorder!
Sam Hecht did a nice job of revisting the credit card calculator
http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/creditcard_calc.jpg
More original than this +-0 / Braun ‘remake’
I like their products, they have like a girl next door feeling. They are simple and regular but have something that drives me nuts. I think this kind of feeling and beauty is very hard to achieve
that can’t sin or cosin, the iphone can.
I would rather use my cellphone
This ISN’T new…look at this and tell me it’s a new idea:
http://www.spymaster.co.uk/images/credit.jpeg
Case closed as they say, etc.
well…thats why they name the company plus minus zero
because they do no styling (more or less)
Sorry, no retro design. Copy.
Braun, Sharp, and my CASIO back in 1982
C’mon, y’all … it’s yellow! And, like, other colors, too!