Hot or Not? A Digital Ruler

We sorta cringed when the iPhone store started filling up with "digital levels," but this one.. we're not too sure. Combining the values of a traditional ruler with the advantages of a digital interface may sound good on paper, but is this concept bound to take home the gold in digital simplicity or is it another flop for the new world yuppies? So, we ask:

Honestly, it'd drive me nuts having to replace yet another battery on one of my digital gadgets. I think I'd so rather stick with your run the mill ruler we've been using for ages, but maybe it's just this obsession with vintage gadgets lately has talkin'. Quite frankly, looking at the digital ruler just makes me think of this "Technologic Overkill" video promo shot for the iPhone a few days back.

(Via Gizmodo)

Comments (3)

I can't tell whether it shows a starting point... so where is your frame of reference?

posted by zapzap on July 7th 2009 at 10:45am
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This might be the most unnecessary thing I have ever seen.

posted by jyw on July 7th 2009 at 4:55pm
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So it measures from the end of the ruler to where it is being touched by any writing instrument?

What if you are just measuring something and not drawing something? Plenty of times you might just want to size something up. You'd have to press the edge at the point you are measuring to. And also, a regular ruler with markings lets you zoom into say 6 inches if that's what you need. Here you need to guess and then see the reading, then adjust and check reading repeatedly until you got what you want.

posted by wunami on July 11th 2009 at 6:32pm
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