HP 35s Tear Down at embedded.com (updated)

Editor in Chief Richard Ness breaks open the calculator, and finds two ICs and twenty-five screws. Mr. Ness also discusses the design with Sam Kim, director of product development for HP calculators. Mr. Kim notes

Unlike one of the predecessor models (the 41), there's no way for the user to tap in to the 35s' firmware. The programming only occurs at the user level, although HP is tinkering with giving users limited access to the firmware.

Kim offers, "The 35s is pretty much hacker-proof, but the old 41 had a lot of hacking going on because it was more of an open platform. There was something called synthetic programming, and there was a crowd that evolved around it. I was actually a member of that crowd, the diehard HP users."

Update: Mr. Nass also made a short video discussing the teardown, available at the EE Times trade journal site.

HP 35s at HP

... first class animal protein ...

The Register found a Pravda article debunking the virtues of vegetarianism. Which is unintentionally funny, and so hard to take too seriously. For example:

Each and every human cell is supposed to be supplied with first class animal protein.

Furthermore, cosmetologists say that a typical vegetarian has dry and fragile hair, dull eyes and unhealthy complexion. They can hardly stand criticism and have a low boiling point. They raise their voice, swing their arms and splutter when arguing. They are weak even in their logic. They exemplify their righteousness with the cow, a herbivorous animal, and say that nature originally made a human being as a vegetarian creature.

The original Pravda link is a little racy. I had never been to the Pravda site, so I had assumed that Pravda was a reputable (so to speak) newspaper, but it looks a lot more like the National Enquirer.