Jul 24 2009That's No Ordinary Ruler!: It's Electronic
You know what sucks about rulers? When you'd fall asleep in class and the nuns would beat you with them. Except that never happened because I didn't go to Catholic school AND NOBODY BEATS ME BUT ME. But yeah, this is an electronic ruler by designer Shay Shafranek that has the form factor of an analog one. What will they think of next?! Affordable jetpacks? I sure hope so.
Press the power/reset button on the ruler and the LEDs light up, waiting for your input. The wooden cover conceals what the pencil in the image above is touching: a line of metal points jutting out from the inner edge of the ruler. The ruler uses the change in voltage induced by touching one of these points to calculate the distance.
I dig it, but not as much as I'm digging you. Is that a new perfume you're wearing? Because it smells like flowers and shit. And that dress -- you look better than a sackful of potatoes. I mean it, I want to kiss you till your teeth break. I'm sorry, is this too romantic for you?
Hit the jump for two more shots showing how the device works.
wooden electronic ruler will make you want to measure stuff [technabob]
Reader Comments
1. JK - July 24, 2009 1:20 PM
lol, wow
2. still shot - July 24, 2009 1:20 PM
firstards fags die die die
3. Pepe LA PEWPEW - July 24, 2009 1:25 PM
does that work for measuring junk or will I get shocked
4. Bethy - July 24, 2009 1:25 PM
my ruler has a sweet magnifying lense so my dyslexic ass can read stuff.... WAAAY coooler
5. Tenshi - July 24, 2009 1:26 PM
@3 I dont think its long enough for us.
6. Birr Crinton - July 24, 2009 1:33 PM
This guy's thumb is weird. And gross. And he needs to clip his fingernails. Unless it's a girl. Then she needs to put that thumb in my butt.
7. Madgame - July 24, 2009 1:34 PM
Sorcery!
8. Jedi - July 24, 2009 1:37 PM
I will have it......also i think I would need over 9000 of them to measure my junk......you know, for scientific purposes.
9. STOMPY - July 24, 2009 1:37 PM
now they just need to program engineering and architectual scales for them.
10. lala - July 24, 2009 1:39 PM
WOWZORZ
11. STOMPY - July 24, 2009 1:43 PM
oh ya, well my junk is soo big scientist estimate its size by its gravatation pull on the milkyway.....
12. Pew³ - July 24, 2009 1:53 PM
I personally would not punk my junk next to anything that;
A. has electricity flowing thru it.
B. looks like a zipper (ooh, the sensitive little hairs)
C. would reveal its actual size.
It's all about smoke and mirrors people!
13. STOMPY - July 24, 2009 1:57 PM
http://robe.ytmnd.com/
14. the heat - July 24, 2009 2:11 PM
The battery needs replacing. Any you need to carefully press in the little buttons along the side. But I guess this would be pretty convenient for people who can't count, who have to do plenty of measuring, I'm sure.
I'll stick with my 75 cent analogue ruler.
15. STOMPY - July 24, 2009 2:16 PM
that's no ruler, its a space station...
16. Ollie Williams - July 24, 2009 2:32 PM
That's no ruler, that's Goliath's novelty eagle head stirrer.
17. sup - July 24, 2009 2:50 PM
this reminds me of a dream. The class and I were planning to set the school on fire to get out early. It was my second best dream.
18. STOMPY - July 24, 2009 2:51 PM
@16
Damn, novelty eagle head stirrer, why didn't I think of that...
19. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 24, 2009 2:52 PM
That's no ruler, that's Goliath's combination novelty eagle head drink stirrer and spare tire inflator.
20. Dream - July 24, 2009 3:00 PM
I HATE whenever people try to sell something online, and with the sample pictures, it has the worst fingernails ever.
Im like, cut those witch/whore nails off man!
21. Pat - July 24, 2009 3:23 PM
Sweet! This would bring new meaning to my ruler lightsaber fights.
22. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 24, 2009 3:48 PM
Umm.... an old school ruler is more practical...
23. Daisy - July 24, 2009 5:30 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was injured when he fell off a fire truck laddre, he and all the people in the hospital were miserable until an old crabby lady came into the room, and slipped on a banana peel and fell on her ass.
24. Matty - July 24, 2009 5:48 PM
i thought GW was the only digital ruler of this domain... BAH!!!! see what i did there? you see? yeah.... didn't go so well..
25. Dave - July 24, 2009 7:34 PM
Dude you crack me up! You can write about anything and make it funny... Except Robots. There's nothing funny about that!
26. Jaded Icon - July 25, 2009 12:59 PM
@ 12
Ha Ha Ha, I agree. My wang still has nightmares about that last zipper incident. And as far as smoke and mirrors go.........it's what a real ninja would do, right?
27. Brittney - July 26, 2009 1:23 AM
my ruler is a calculator as well, so TAKE THAT BITCHES!!!
i have the ultimate maths tool!!!
28. Hennessy - July 26, 2009 5:08 PM
Imagine what the catholic nuns would do with this...electric ruler spanking...sweet
29. geekofan - July 27, 2009 4:44 AM
check this out >>
http://75684.onodot.com/