RetroTech: The CalcuPen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Merge a pen with a calculator and you get the CalcuPen, a barely useable yet highly collectable piece of 1970s tech.
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Nope, still want the outtros :D
Yes
Moar outros!
I'd be happy with an intro.. and outro..
Maybe some content from the boring old man in between 😉
As long as he can have fun doing it, I'll have fun watching it.
MORE COWBELL !
3:37 "...to perform really serious and important calculations." Looked up from my meal, wasn't disappointed. 😂
Yep. Me too.
Honestly, I think you should start having the tech stuff be the outro bonus for episodes of The Moans. I can just see you being interviewed in a decade, sobbing into a microphone about how you just wanted to make tech videos, but *nooo*, all anyone cares about are these stupid puppets, and now they're making a movie and nothing makes sense any more.
Full-length Moans feature film. Now there’s a thought. I’m in.
Kickstart it.
Now I'm imagining that during that interview Tracey Ullman comes in from off screen to hug him while saying,”There there.”
LOLZ! I think the ppl who own the rights to The Muppets and Sesame Street might want a cut there. It'd be a cute li'l DVD project that y'find years later...like the Ogri cartoons DVD. !:^)
I want a puppet movie!
I have to say, that display is incredibly aesthetically pleasing to me.
The more meta these puppet episodes become, the more we enjoy them. This one was extremely shameless filler material, I love it! ;)
@Zero Cool The Royal We
We were amused.
@Zero Cool Yes, we. (At least this part of the we agrees with the above part of the we.
Absolutely
The 80’s: Everything is a calculator.
my gf had a dildo with calculator
@@teecchnoboy whaaaaaaaaat!?!? I have soooo many questions
Where did she get it from?
Why would you need to do mathematical calculations when you know, you're doing that
@Phoenix smartANYTHING
The 00s everything is a clock.
The 2020s everything is a TV/phone.
The 2040s everything is a teleporter.
@@teecchnoboy really??
"I think this might be the one that pushes us over the edge". Nope. Not at all. Huge laughs! Keep 'em comin'!
I repurposed one of those digital watch pens to help an anxious friend of mine pass an exam. Though the output was rather on the small side, it still worked perfectly- and even had a means of cycling through the stored text using the button at the top. Since we both learned the material while setting-up the thing, I was able to talk him out of cheating. He said he'd feel more confident if I joined him so I signed up to take the exam too. We both passed with flying colours- all without any recourse to sneaky digital aides-memoire. I still have that pen to this day in my display cabinet of treasured things.
3:26
"...really serious and important calculations..."
lol
This number is still important.
Haha I get it, because sine of 5318008 is almost exactly 1 for both radian and degree measure. That's insane.
What a cool number
I understand the reference! LoL
like how many hours per/lb to cook that christmas turkey!
this comment not being on top means the humanity is doomed!!!
Douglas Adams reference.... CHECK
Bovine Containment Device.... CHECK
Childish calculations..... CHECK
A man battling a ball point pen and loosing....CHECK
So lame it's funny outro.... CHECK
Yup, this video had it all!
On the contrary, now I want even more outtros 😂
There comes a point where the topic is do absurdly banal that it becomes fun to watch again. This is past it.
The more surreal and meta they get the better
I loved the "combining two functional and useful devices into something which can barely perform either job," very good!
5318008 = Important Calculation.
lol.
@@Tangobaldy try replacing the L with an I. 7 is L 1 is I
That's a number, not a calculation.
But the 5 needs to be a 2 D:
@@Tangobaldy Or SHELLOIL
531boob
whoa that little pen flip was badass!
I had the clock pen. Thanks for restoring that memory.
me too
More Outro, please!
Now.. if only they could implement a way to store music on these pens in a retro fashion and have someone manufacture them... I'd have a new medium to release albums on! ^_^
Might be able to cram a couple minutes of wire recorder wire wrapped around the cartridge?
You could easily fit 8 gig in a pen so it could probably even be lossless audio. (Considering you use instruments with such high dynamic range). I personally think a BT calculator watch would be more suitable.
Maybe there could even be a rudimentary synth chip in it so you could play notes on the buttons all of 14 notes of squarewave madness. Would be something for Dave to sink his teeth into. LOL
Reminds me of the ACME Stealth Pencorder from the last season of WITWICS. (sometimes the battery ... wasn't fresh, and other times the recorder was put in 'backwards')
MP3 pens exist
Mat's hands being covered in ink is so reminiscent of the time in school I became the de facto Pen Doctor of my class.
Nice try, but we loved the puppet outro. Remember Mat, you are only filler for the puppet content.
Techmoan puppet outros are the purest artform on TH-cam. They are here to stay. There...that's settled then.
Great puppet episode, could make a spin off channel staring them, could get dabchuk to guest star
I think they had their own channel- but got "downgraded" to a playlist on this channel th-cam.com/play/PLN2yCnHTG_6rlyYFpwUX2u0m_HVHpHO0F.html
The channel is still up. It's called 'TH-cam Pedant'
Excellent! Thanks for the link
"Me dinner's going cold."
"What are you having?"
"Gazpacho soup followed by a tuna salad."
Oi.
Digital tuna or analog?
@@kevinjokipii4260 the analogue oscillator is using a quartz tuna fork
No NO NNNNNNNOOOOO Don't stop the outtros!!!! We love them!!!
Said it before, but you could make a video about anything and I'd watch it. Haven't missed a single one so far and always found it educational and interesting.
TH-cam has ruined itself with making creator blab on for the10 min mark, never on techmoan, quality content :)
I remember when youtubers tried to make their videos as short and sweet as possible and were always worried about their 'audience retention' statistics because most people don't watch more than a few minutes of a video. Now they do the opposite and try to string them along as much as possible in the hopes they'll see more ads.
I get that TH-cam is trying to prevent people from gaming the system, but when the consistently most-watched videos are low-budget "Mackey Mouse" cartoons, I kind of feel like they're not quite getting it.
Not just more ads, but more future recommendations in the list of videos besides the comments section too.
One video of Ahoy flooded my list with all his work which while admirable, is only because that one video was 40 minutes in length and TH-cam's magic algorithm thought I was REALLY interested in him.
@@michelvanbriemen3459 Good thing Ahoy is very watchable. Nuclear Fruit is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
But I get your point. The algorithm only seems to suggest new channels I actually want to watch perhaps once every six months or so.
That ‘skip’ joke made me laugh harder than I thought it would.
3am and I am watching a video on an Calculator Pen... Now I want a calculator pen thanks a lot!
I want a pocket bovine containment device.
Drunken Beard Wow, how did you get it to display on that tiny screen....Also, I now realize that sarcasm needs a font.
@@prismstudios001 Well played
I was afraid those buggers had gotten away with 'liquid retina' and everyone else had just let it slip past them.
I absolutely love the look of these old LED displays and I wouldn't be totally averse to seeing a resurgence of them today
Gazpacho soup? Arnold Rimmer's last words!
Don't forget to ask for it warmed up xD
And don’t forget to ask for the freely-dispensing chilled champagne.
The original smeghead.
Souper!
I'm glad Rimmer taught be about gazpacho, it allowed me to get the "my dinner's going cold" joke.
5:51 sick move
0:30 how
Oi rarirama
There must be a way to "re-hydrate" the ink in those cartridges, or maybe use printer ink and a needle and fill them from the back end, then seal with wax or something.
+10 for the puppets! No we will never tire of them so keep 'em rolling.
Love the outro
We are still so amazingly primitive that some people think a washing machine with WiFi is a pretty neat idea.
honestly though....
Remember the refrigerator with built-in TV? Who do you call when the TV section dies, the TV repairman or the fridge repair guy? If the TV section has to get sent out for repair, do you cover the hole in the door with a piece of cardboard? LOL
That's not primitive. Thinking that's a good idea is just stupid.
The fact that nobody picked up on you quoting "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". Replacing digital watches with washing machines with WiFi. 😄
Look, let's forget about washing machines and WiFi. Some of us think coming down out of the trees was a bad idea. And others of us have decided that leaving the ocean in the first place was where it all went wrong.
"It's thick, it's heavy and it's oddly-shaped. It's uncomfortable to hold."
That's what she said!
...
Wait...
Whenever the main video is ending I check how much is left to go so I can guess if there's a puppet outro. Keep 'em coming 😂
The bad outros are the main reason I'm subscribed. You won't scare me away!
Doh! Everytime I watch a Technoan video, I feel the urge to go onto eBay to find something I either didn’t know I wanted again, or didn’t know existed. I had one of those stainless steel LCD pens back in the day - and now I want one again…
Matt, you'd never drone on about a pen that doesn't work.
Now, to watch this new video...
"Bovine Containment" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO ... I'm still laughing out loud 30 second later
If you get sick of the puppets please just take a break and bring them back as you like. I enjoy them but don't want to if you are miserable.
Same basically goes for all the content. Generally it's enjoyable because you can sense it was enjoyable to make. If it ends up being a feedback loop (beyond useful and interesting suggestions) it all tends to go down hill.
A video about calculator pens?! Great way to start my morning, sipping a mug of strong black tea while nerding out with Techmoan. Thank you!
3:31 ah yes, yes, those are the most important of calculations, especially to the kid sitting in a desk text to me ;)
Not even close to getting bored of the hilarious and entertaining puppets!
When my Dad worked in Saudi Arabia in the mid 1970's he bought my brother and I LED watches as presents on one return trip. They were very cool and we were the only kids in our school to have them, even though they looked a bit large for our skinny little wrists!
Hi, it would be a great idea if you add english subs on your videos!
Man you probably already guessed, but the way you broke the 4th wall in that outro makes it really awesome :-P "we're just here to waste TH-cam time and fill the 10 mins mark!" basically, I think it's so much better when people acknowledge they are doing it in general, and at least I felt like I got something out of it hahaha!
Oh gosh, the moment I saw that first LCD watch pen I remembered being a kid in the early eighties when I saw one for the first time at Christmas. Uncanny, like catching an ocour you haven't smelled since childhood.
Barnaclebeard Nice to find another geezer in my age bracket! I remember going to department stores,and being amazed by all that "futuristic " tech in those cases. I vividly remember normal calculators being locked in display cases,and they were expensive as well.
@@prismstudios001 Another geezer in your age bracket? How old do you think the rest of us are? We're ALL that age!
greenaum Most of the people I run into here are millennials, or younger. People who refer to the 90’s as vintage.
@@prismstudios001 What, on Techmoan videos? Hadn't noticed that.
The Outtro was a scream! The fellow's cold dinner going cold was a nice touch.
I was hoping it would calculate the numbers you wrote on paper lol.
That we actually be kind of cool. And with gyroscopes and handwriting recognition tech, may not be all that impossible.
I had one of those calcupen sets, I'd totally forgotten about it. Now I remember it was an Xmas gift. Thanks for the memory!
The outtros featuring the Moans must continue! Indeed you should ask them to close out all of your videos.
You should open a museum to display all the wonderful retro-tech you've collected over the years.
Good lord, even as a tech geek, that is one seriously ugly pen. Thanks for showing it to us.
Really. It could be *LGR* _Oddware_ worthy.
Surely Clint has already seen this video.
3:31 The man has his priorities in order.
Every man loves 5318008!
Using his power only for important... hemm... calculation...
You will NEVER push us over the edge on the outros. I can always tell there is an outro based on the amount of time left in video progress bar when you do your wrap up and I get very happy.
The biggest problem with the LED was in using one outside. They were damned near impossible to see in the daylight.
Oh what nice to see the lcd watch pen again. I did have one like that myself. I wonder if it still have it somewhere, hidden in one of the boxes on the attic with old stuff, but it's surely nice to see it again. I do remember having used it quite some time. Nostalgia indeed :-)...
I can't believe just one person realised of the "BOOBIES" joke.
Very pleasant to recall my first LED watch as you recall yours. The LEDs were prettier and more exciting. I love to consider the economics of these developments in terms of what we have on our desks, or in our pockets, today. I like it!
🙏Please do not stop puppet out tros, they are Witty and fun. 😊😊Thank You.
absolutely love the outtros i will never get tired of them.
More puppets!
But once you've managed to convince the search engine that you're not interested in bovine containment... Best thing I've heard on youtube to date.
Need more outros
I used to have that LED pen shown in the advertisement. Loved it!
hm. Come to think of it, vast majority of your videos are longer than 10 mins :) Which is good in my opinion. And yes, I agree, the puppet scene at the end of the video should be a regular :)
I'll NEVER not want those puppet outtros. The tech content is second to none - always interesting and informative. And it totally comes across that your interests are genuine. The puppets? LOVELY ICING ON AN ALREADY TASTY CAKE.
I love icing. If only we could have more corner pieces.
The puppets.......About a pen that does not work. Hilarious. Thanks for sharing.
Super awesome! I'd love to have one of these! My entry into vintage electronics was vintage calculators. I still love em.
love the meta outro! more please!
Beautiful pens. I remember these first in the video with LCD I use to had one. My mother both me one at the beginning of the sixth grade of primary school back in the 80's.
The GDR had table centrifuges to refill ballpoint pens with ink.
Appreciate the detail - I still have my watch pen & I even have that 4 pen pack with a solar power calculator attached to it! I used to collect keyring (and credit card) calculators, there are so many different designs!
I'm going to have to comment on this "rotting carcass of a video" to ask if anyone knows of any modern-day manufacturers of LED-based, or VFD calculators? I know everyone uses their phones for simple calculations now, but there is something convenient about grabbing a simple calculator. LCDs have poor legibility though in dimly-lit rooms, which is mostly where I work.
Or an adding machine, they ain't easy to find either.
Han Pritcher Maybe look for OLED calculators, same idea but more fashionable these days.
Just had a quick look through amazon, there's a couple desktop models (flourescent blue display), and some DIY kits for pocket sized LED calculators, some with red LED modules (the ones that come with the yy3631bh LED).
Absolutely love the Moans, and I hope you never stop making the outros.
This looks like a tool from The Predator...
I got one in 1982 ,everyone in school wanted one ,was 12 years old at the time and in 1985 there was the game watch hype ,everybody wanted a watch that played Pacman or Donkey Kong.
I had a motorized "Hotwheels" car as a kid that took an "N" size battery :)
I can remember having to procure 'N'-size cells back in the late '60s, just cannot remember what for! (It was either a toy or something as mundane a flashlight.)
@@AuntieFan I had a flashlight back in the 70's that took "Sub 'C' " batteries (C cells that were one third shorter), and I remember on a construction site in the 80's the flashlights supplied by the company, took "long 'D' " batteries (D cells that we're 1/3 longer) :)
@@MikeBaxterABC The long-D's might have been some effort to stop people nicking them and using them at home, if you could only get the batteries from work. Of course I suppose you could nick the batteries too.
@@greenaum Good point! ... I'll wager that was it! :)
@@MikeBaxterABC Actually now I think about it, it's more likely it was to stop you stealing the batteries, since the flashlights would be more easily missed. Duh! D batteries aren't cheap, especially alkalines.
The edge has not yet been reached. Continue. Have a great Christmas Matt.
You seem to have released a video 3 days ago, but retarded TH-cam seems to think i didn't want to see it, so it didn't show up in my subscription box.
That was on purpose, check the description.
Haze Anderson The description of the _other_ video...
Like your pen trick, my Japanese wife taught me to do that (and another one) years ago - and I got quite good at it when I was quitting smoking!
More silly puppet outros please!!
Boi I thought you had yourself a nuralyzer from Men In Black there for a sec 😂
Using the puppets to make a 10 minute video...yawn. Using the puppets to break the fourth wall AND make a 10 minute video...giggle. Adding in the bit about the dinner...lol. So...don't think you pushed it over the edge...
Very cool!
I still have several of the original Texas Instruments "Slide Rule" calculators. Those babies used the rectangular 9 volt battery!
Just like my first 60's style "Transistor Radio"!
"once you've managed to convince the search engine you aren't interested in bovine containment".. classic!
I used to have a digital watch pen. It was one of the coolest things in the 5th grade. As for that calcu-pen, I need to get me one of them. It would really look great in my pocket protector.
Wow that was a blast from the past. I remember having one of those silver clock pens when I was in secondary school.
That ending was super meta lololol
The random jokes like the ones the patent troll and the bovine containment always crack me up :) Excellent content as always, interesting and entertaining.
Sorry, still amused by the outro puppets.
Great video, fascinating stuff. Makes me wonder what else there is like this out there that was such an odd mix. Keep up the good work!
i was hoping for an outtro!! thanks, Techmoan! ur kinda my favourite subscription!
I had the watch pens, also the Pedometer pen too....also the pen with radio, and the pen with built in recorder.....and last year the Pen with video recording and camera.....the pen is mightier then the swords.
I had forgotten about the watch pens but I had them as a kid in the 80’s and I’m amazed now how I thought they were the coolest thing!
By far, the best outro yet. Someone call the Academy
I will NEVER get tired of the puppet outros!!!!!!
Reminds me of that classic "Eels" by The Mighty Boosh - "Elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either" :) Oh, and keep the outros coming please, can't get enough of them!
I think you "accidentally" made my favorite outtro yet. Thanks for the great videos!
LOL at the spurting ink with the dremel, and the ink stains on your hand.
I had one of those calcupen sets as a kid... loved it, felt really novel :)