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Show HN: TouchScale.co, weigh things in Safari on iPhone 6S

51 points| ashertrockman | 10 years ago |touchscale.co

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jakobegger|10 years ago

Measurements from my device vs. Kitchen dcale: Small clementine: 48g vs 64g Apple: 78g vs 180g Pear: 125 vs 200

ashertrockman|10 years ago

It is definitely more accurate than that. I made some changes to make sure it is compatible with all sensitivity settings.

no_gravity|10 years ago

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.
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|10 years ago

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...

chdir|10 years ago

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 :)

smt88|10 years ago

This is incredibly cool, even though I can only imagine one real-world use for it (measuring drugs).

camillomiller|10 years ago

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.

timdorr|10 years ago

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.

cgijoe|10 years ago

Now just you watch, as Apple removes JavaScript access to the 3D touch sensor data, hahaha :)

nv-vn|10 years ago

Interesting, it works on my Note 3 when I use the stylus.

aikah|10 years ago

I don't have an iphone 6S, how accurate is it?

brianwawok|10 years ago

read the article

jedberg|10 years ago

This is really clever!