Casio’s new $600 calculator is a work of art

The S100X is constricted to conscionable 650 units worldwide. | Image: Casio

Can a basal calculator with an old-school segmented LCD surface beryllium beautiful? Casio's effect to that question is its new S100X featuring a accepted Japanese hand-painted decorativeness utilizing sap from the lacquer tree, giving the calculator a glossy achromatic decorativeness with lukewarm reddish highlights astir the edges. It someway looks adjacent much luxurious than if Casio had simply gold-plated the S100X.

Casio enlisted Yamakyu Shitsuki, a Japanese institution that's been making lacquerware since 1930, to springiness the calculator's milled aluminum alloy assemblage the unsocial finish. It took maestro artisan Ryuji Umeda a period to implicit the lacquering technique, according to Hy …

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