Show HN: TouchScale.co, weigh things in Safari on iPhone 6S
touchscale.coMeasurements from my device vs. Kitchen dcale: Small clementine: 48g vs 64g Apple: 78g vs 180g Pear: 125 vs 200
It is definitely more accurate than that. I made some changes to make sure it is compatible with all sensitivity settings.
Reminds me of Paul Graham's essay from 2010:
http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html
Many if not most of the special-purpose objects
around us are going to be replaced by apps running
on tablets.
I wouldn't be surprised if by playing some clever
tricks with the accelerometer you could even replace
the bathroom scale.
Wow, pg is already at "delphi's oracle" levels already. Even banal passing comments that anybody with a minimum knowledge of technology could have formulated, are now read into like they were incredible prophecies...
When the iPhone was launched back in 2007, there were parody videos that showed the "real" potential of iPhone e.g. using it as bathroom scale. Looks like they weren't all that wrong :)
"This one's actually kind of cool: you step on your laptop and it weighs you, it tells you how much you weigh, like a scale. Scale.com."
This is incredibly cool, even though I can only imagine one real-world use for it (measuring drugs).
Nice proof of concept, totally unreliable. It's interesting only because Apple rejected that scale app to weight stuff with a spoon, and now someone's done it on Safari. Is it from the same devs? All in all, this is just a bad gimmick, right now.
Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467847
Sort of works with my Nexus 6. The measurements aren't accurate, but there is a relative scale depending on how hard I press on the screen.
Now just you watch, as Apple removes JavaScript access to the 3D touch sensor data, hahaha :)
Interesting, it works on my Note 3 when I use the stylus.
I don't have an iphone 6S, how accurate is it?
read the article
What article ? I just see a circle and a blue button on that page.
edit: got it , thanks.
Finally found a "weight your drugs in the street app" /s
You don't see the link at the bottom? ("How does this work?" - http://ashertrockman.github.io/ios/2015/10/24/3d-touch-scale...)
Maybe it only works for apples, strawberries.
This is really clever!