This circular slide rule consists of a silver-colored metal dial, 8-1/2" wide, mounted on a silver-colored metal disc. Three oblong holes on the base disc permit the reading of trigonometric scales on ...

The UK's Planet Computers has hit the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform with its third project, the Astro Slide. Inspired by the Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) of the 1990s, it's a chunky smartphone ...

How do your review something that is so utterly familiar and so utterly unique in almost the same breath? In a world of fixed slab smartphones, coming to terms with the idea of a foldable phone is ...

Unless you are above a certain age, the only time you may have seen a slide rule (or a slip stick, as we sometimes called them) is in the movies. You might have missed it, but slide rules show up in ...

Planet Computers has been making smartphones with physical keyboards, unlocked bootloaders and support for Android or Linux software for a few years. I went hands-on with the Gemini PDA at CES 2018 ...

All the major smartphone makers gave up on physical keyboards years ago. But a handful of smaller companies are keeping the dream alive — and the new Astro Slide smartphone from Planet Computers is ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This linear slide rule reflects ...

BlackBerry (via TCL) was the last major OEM that attempted to include a workable physical keyboard in a modern Android smartphone. However, a relative newcomer to the game -- Planet Computers -- is ...

Planet Computers, known for creating QWERTY phones, has shared a revised launch date and specification details about its new 5G smartphone called Astro Slide. The phone has a side-sliding physical ...

In 2018, Planet Computers released the Gemini, a product that imbued the clamshell palmtop of the 1990s with an operating system of the present day. The product's most noteworthy attribute was its ...

Without foldable devices, smartphone design has hit a bit of a plateau. Enter Planet Computers’ Astro Slide, full-sized Android phone that includes a slide-out keyboard, 5G connectivity, and a ...