Show HN: TouchScale.co, weigh things in Safari on iPhone 6S • Hacker News Board

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

#11

Post by jakobegger » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:04 AM UTC

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

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

#12

Post by jakobegger » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:04 AM UTC

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

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

#13

Post by jedberg » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:05 AM UTC

This is really clever!

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

#14

Post by smt88 » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:09 AM UTC

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

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

#15

Post by timdorr » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:28 AM UTC

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.

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

#16

Post by nv-vn » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:34 AM UTC

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

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

#17

Post by doughj3 » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 6:48 AM UTC

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

#18

Post by no_gravity » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 7:08 AM UTC

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.

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

#19

Post by camillomiller » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 7:36 AM UTC

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.

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

#20

Post by camillomiller » Mon, Nov 02, 2015, 7:39 AM UTC

no_gravity wrote: post #18

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 p…

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...