But for builders and skilled tradespeople, tape measures have dozens of equally useful applications in the home or on the job site. One such application is denoted by a little black diamond printed on ...

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Thanks to the adoption of Google’s ARCore and developments like LiDAR scanners on the iPhone, our smartphones have become capable enough to serve as a measurement tool. Instead of reaching for a ...

Retractable tape measures are easy to use, accurate, and cheap — usually no more than $20. But a Boston startup called Reekon Tools has given this 200-year-old technology a brain transplant. Reekon’s ...

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If you've ever found yourself wanting to measure something but don't have a ruler or tape measure on hand, measuring apps on your phone can come to the rescue. They range from the fairly simple to ...

From AR-powered rulers to GPS-based land survey tools, these 8 best measuring apps for iPhone and Android let you measure length, height, area, and even perimeters on the go. Accurate, versatile, and ...

The European Union proposed an array of measures aimed at lightening the regulatory load for defense investments as part of the bloc’s push to boost its arms industry. “We need defense readiness to ...

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You don’t have to bend the blade in your tape measure anymore. That’s because popular TikToker Sidney Raz (@sidneyraz), who shares life hacks he’s learning in his 30s, just shared some very helpful ...

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 ...

Some of my earliest memories are of me “helping” my dad and my grandfather build an addition onto my grandparents’ home. There are pictures of me swinging a hammer while I was still in diapers. One of ...