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Show HN: TouchScale.co, weigh things in Safari on iPhone 6S
- aikah 11y agoI don't have an iphone 6S, how accurate is it?
- brianwawok 11y agoread the article
- aikah 11y agoWhat 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
- sim0n 11y agoYou don't see the link at the bottom? ("How does this work?" - http://ashertrockman.github.io/ios/2015/10/24/3d-touch-scale.html http://ashertrockman.github.io/ios/2015/10/24/3d-touch-scale...)
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- frozenport 11y agoMaybe it only works for apples, strawberries.
- cgijoe 11y agoNow just you watch, as Apple removes JavaScript access to the 3D touch sensor data, hahaha :)
- chdir 11y agoWhen 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 :)
- zachrose 11y ago"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." http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4geRaM5dY http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4geRaM5dY
- jakobegger 11y agoMeasurements from my device vs. Kitchen dcale: Small clementine: 48g vs 64g Apple: 78g vs 180g Pear: 125 vs 200
- ashertrockman 11y agoIt is definitely more accurate than that. I made some changes to make sure it is compatible with all sensitivity settings.
- jakobegger 11y agoMeasurements from my device vs. Kitchen dcale: Small clementine: 48g vs 64g Apple: 78g vs 180g Pear: 125 vs 200
- jedberg 11y agoThis is really clever!
- smt88 11y agoThis is incredibly cool, even though I can only imagine one real-world use for it (measuring drugs).
- timdorr 11y agoSort 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.
- nv-vn 11y agoInteresting, it works on my Note 3 when I use the stylus.
- doughj3 11y agoSomewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467847
- no_gravity 11y agoReminds me of Paul Graham's essay from 2010: http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html 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. It's yet to be seen, how the bathroom scale will be replaced. But maybe the new touch sensitivity in phones (which PG includes in "tablets" in his essay) is one step into that direction.
- camillomiller 11y agoWow, 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...
- camillomiller 11y agoNice 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.