Texas Devices made a brand new flagship graphing calculator: the TI-84 Evo

Texas Devices graphing calculators have helped many a pupil with algebra, pre-calculus and upside-down anatomical slang. Now, the corporate is again with an improve for the fashionable world, the TI-84 Evo. The brand new machine allows you to get your math on with a sooner processor, a brand new icon-based dwelling display and a redesigned keypad.

TI is advertising it as one thing akin to the Light Phone of calculators. Not like calculator apps on telephones or computer systems, the “distraction-free” TI-84 Evo is a single-purpose machine “designed to do one factor exceptionally properly — math.” With out notifications, social media apps and even Wi-Fi, there’s much less to attract your focus away from the mathematics issues at hand. (Nonetheless, there’ll all the time be the sidesplittingly humorous “58008” to alleviate your boredom.)

The brand new mannequin’s processor is thrice sooner than its predecessor. It additionally provides 50 % extra graphing house, a simplified keypad and USB-C charging. There’s additionally a brand new characteristic that allows you to hint alongside a graph to search out factors of curiosity.

The TI-84 Evo is on the market now. Particular person clients will pay $160. (Faculty districts can contact the corporate for bulk pricing.) The calculator ships in a contemporary array of colours: white (the usual mannequin), mint, pink, purple, teal, raspberry and silver.