You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects. But unless you know how to use a tape measure and correctly read its ...

The Macaron is a clever measuring tape dreamt up by students from the Queensland University of Technology. Described as a universal smart tape measure, it was inspired by one of the team members who ...

Did you know that a simple tape measure has a world of untapped potential? Yes, it looks like a humble tool, but you might be surprised by the multitude of tasks a tape measure can tackle and the ...

Using a tape measure on tight spaces often involves bending the measuring tape and doing your best to get a reading.

The odds are good that most households have at least one retractable tape measure, either in a toolbox, a junk drawer or on a garage shelf. These measuring tools are relatively inexpensive, easy to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It is a reasonable assertion that every household should have a tape measure somewhere. They are useful for so many things that we could write ...

There are plenty of bad connected gadgets, but sometimes it’s not the device itself that’s bad—it’s the execution. The idea of using a connected tape measure to track your fitness goals is not a bad ...

For better or worse, cooking will always involve a certain amount of measuring. Usually these measurements are either by mass or volume, but sometimes dimensions come into play, and I am terrible at ...

Amid all the high-tech of a modern woodshop, the classic tape measure seems almost anachronistic (unless you are really old school or in Europe where they still uses wooden folding rules). But new ...

Italian startup XYZE (“size”) is currently crowd funding what it’s calling a smart “wearable” measuring tape. Dubbed “On”, the rather neat-looking gadget aims to help solve the clothes shopping size ...

Apple's new augmented reality framework will monumentally shift the way we use our phones, if the first few demos are any indication. The new ARKit is Apple's framework to bring augmented reality ...