This year, high school juniors and seniors will buy a $100 calculator that's older than they are. You remember the TI-83: the brick-sized graphing machine you likely covered in stickers and used to ...

Come with me back to teenagedom in 1999. You listened to Offspring (or the Backstreet Boys) on CDs inside a Discman. You made calls on a landline, which you probably just called "the phone." It's ...

In today's world of high-tech gadgets, Texas Instruments' relatively low-tech calculators stand out. Since the ‘90s, laptops have gotten faster and thinner, phones have become more powerful, and ...

Graphing calculators are an interesting niche market these days. They’re relatively underpowered, and usually come with cheap, low resolution screens to boot. They remain viable almost solely due to ...

In high school, I had an intense love affair with my graphing calculator, a silver transparent TI-83 Plus. Not only did it help me with my math homework, it was also a handy way to play classic games ...

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Ever sat in math class and thought "I wish I could play Super Smash Bros. right now?" Well, now you can. A game programmer who goes by the name of "Hayleia" on the Internet forum Omnimaga has ...

The new TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition isn’t the first color-screen graphing calculator. It isn’t even TI’s first color graphing calculator, a distinction claimed by the TI-Nspire CX and its sibling the ...