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Crowdfunding Smash: A Hi-Tech Measuring Device With Questionable Benefits

The Meazor

By Rain Noe - April 13, 2021

in Crowdfunding

The Meazor is a digital measuring tool that purports to let you "perform meticulous measuring" with both a roller for tracing, and a laser for scanning. This is how you're meant to use the object, which resembles something Motorola might have designed:

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The 360-degree laser scanning on a tripod might be useful for getting the gross measurements of a room, provided you cleared the furniture first. But I just don't see how, if measuring a drawing, the roller would beat the accuracy of a tick mark on an architect's scale. I have no faith I'd be able to nail the end of a line with the roller, and the slightest error on a scale drawing would of course be magnified when translated to the actual environment.

Backers don't seem to mind. At press time the $130 device had been successfully Kickstarted with $177,287 in pledges on a $30,000 goal, and 16 days left in the campaign. It seems the fancy drawing tool genre of objects is continuing to thrive.

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Letao Tao

4 years ago

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Instantly made me nostalgic for the Motorola Aura phone, which was a real triumph of engineering at the time. One of those things that's beautiful to behold, impractical to own.

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Dee An

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How many damned times does Rain Noe need to be told:
Spell out the story in words and pictures without video!
So many Core77 articles are indecipherable without the faff of watching the video, and there is no way of telling which articles are so affluctied from the Core77 home screen.
Please, sort it out.

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Nathan D.

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These tools are usually around $10 but they don't have as many cool conflict minerals in them as this one.

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Zach W

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Does the person who made the kickstarter campaign keep the $175k if the product proves "un-make-able" and they don't ship any units...?

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