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Gadgets

Pixel Ruler Ensures Your App Doodles Are Perfectly Proportionate

Although the ultimate destination will most likely be an LCD display, many apps begin their lives as nothing more than concept sketches on paper. And the next time you start doodling your brilliant app idea, this Pixel Ruler will ensure the various elements in its user interface are perfectly in proportion.

4 September 2012

Gadgets

This Tape Measure Concept Lets You Draw Flawless Lines And Circles

Drawing a perfect circle is maybe the hardest thing one can do with a pen in hand. A straight line, while much easier to accomplish, is still a chore for most people. Designer Sunghoon Jung has dreamed up a concept that will make drawing either one incredibly easy.

14 August 2012

Gadgets

What’s Not To Love About A Ruler With A Handle?

Maybe we’re easily impressed, but the idea of a ruler with a handle on its face has us all infatuated. We have grand visions of measuring and marking everything in sight with extreme ease.

8 July 2012

Geek Out

Slash Through The Zombie Hordes 30 Centimetres At A Time With This Machete Ruler

It doesn’t matter if it’s a pop quiz that involves measuring shapes, or the chance their fellow students have all turned into brain-hungry zombies. The last thing you want is to be chastised at the next parent-teacher meeting for not properly equipping your young’n.

2 December 2011

Gadgets

Ruler-Backscratcher Combo Is The Greatest Office Innovation Ever

I haven’t touched a wooden ruler since I was old enough to safely use a retractable tape measure, but I’ll be making room for one again in my office supplies drawer now that Mustard has added fingers for backscratching.

16 June 2011

Geek Out

Bring This Ruler To A Rubber Band Fight

Classroom warfare is tough. You have teachers hounding your stash, cute girls to impress, punk kids coming up with punkier ways to punk you – basically a lot to worry about. That’s why you need this rubberband shooting ruler.

22 September 2010

software

Ruler 2: As Good As An iPhone Ruler Can Get

For a device with a 3-inch screen, the iPhone has a pretty impressive resume: phone, map, camera, sketchbook, dedicated Doodle Jump playing machine. And for $1.19, the newly revamped Ruler 2 app makes it a pretty decent measuring thinger too.

29 January 2009

Gadgets

Gangster Ruler Allows Measurement Geeks to Save Face

A sad fact of life is that nobody looks tough holding a ruler. But with the Gangster Ruler, $US12, you can be all like, “what’s up now, bitch?” [Atykpyk via Inspire Me Now]

28 January 2009

Measurement Gloves Give Construction Jobs the Finger

There’s never a ruler around when you need one, but these measurement gloves can conceivably clip to your jacket to always have on the job (you know, like mittens).

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