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Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: Sorunome on March 05, 2013, 09:54:26 pm

Title: Orion TI 84+
Post by: Sorunome on March 05, 2013, 09:54:26 pm: Apparently there is some more new calc stuff TI come out with....
http://www.aph.org/newsrel/20130226Talking-Graphing-Calculator.html

I found out about it on cemetech (http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=201365#201365)

Any thoughts about it?
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: pimathbrainiac on March 05, 2013, 09:56:56 pm: Talking ASM games?

/me runs
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 05, 2013, 11:06:18 pm: Interesting. At first I was skeptical about if it's real or not because of where I read about it earlier today (the same place that announced waterproof TI-Nspires over a year ago), until I saw a source in the news and read the other site. Hopefully this is helpful (and not too much more expensive)
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: TIfanx1999 on March 06, 2013, 12:26:28 am: i think it's a great device! Its nice that it allows graphing calculator technology to be accessable to the visually impaired or blind. :)
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: critor on March 07, 2013, 05:21:52 am: We newsed about it too, and started to discuss the protocol, the connectivity and the compatibility with other models:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11360
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: ElementCoder on March 07, 2013, 01:25:02 pm: Quote from: Art_of_camelot on March 06, 2013, 12:26:28 am
i think it's a great device! Its nice that it allows graphing calculator technology to be accessable to the visually impaired or blind. :)
Totally agreed. I do wonder how it will work though. How would it 'explain' the graph for example?
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: Hayleia on March 07, 2013, 01:34:47 pm: Is there a way to connect earphones to it ? It would be stupid to prevent visually impaired people from using it at test due to it giving the answer to everybody.
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 07, 2013, 02:04:22 pm: Something I wonder is what will be the hardware used and will there be enhancements in order to support the extra load from the sound/speech thing? And yeah it would definitively need to allow using headphones if it's gonna say answers :P
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: Sorunome on March 07, 2013, 07:51:38 pm: This also means we get a gameboy emulator with sound, right calc84maniac? ;)
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: TIfanx1999 on March 11, 2013, 08:13:46 am: Quote from: ElementCoder on March 07, 2013, 01:25:02 pm
Quote from: Art_of_camelot on March 06, 2013, 12:26:28 am
i think it's a great device! Its nice that it allows graphing calculator technology to be accessable to the visually impaired or blind. :)
Totally agreed. I do wonder how it will work though. How would it 'explain' the graph for example?
The article says you are able to hook it up to a printer that can create raised images, so they can feel the graph. :)
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: Hayleia on March 11, 2013, 10:35:50 am: Quote from: Sorunome on March 07, 2013, 07:51:38 pm
This also means we get a gameboy emulator with sound, right calc84maniac? ;)
TiBoySE already supports sound.
Title: Re: Orion TI 84+
Post by: Sorunome on March 11, 2013, 09:07:05 pm: Quote from: Hayleia on March 11, 2013, 10:35:50 am
Quote from: Sorunome on March 07, 2013, 07:51:38 pm
This also means we get a gameboy emulator with sound, right calc84maniac? ;)
TiBoySE already supports sound.
O.O Sound with that hardware then, i bet that the communication is a bit different :P