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Do you REALLY need a strip of tape or a flat ruler to measure objects? This circular digital-ruler doesn’t think so

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If I told you to measure the distance from your thumb to your little finger, you’d probably use a plastic or steel ruler. If I upped the scales by telling you to measure the length of a room, you’d probably ditch the scale for a tape measure. What if I pushed the distance even further? Like the measurement of a football field? Your tape measure wouldn’t really help much. Or how about if I asked you to measure a curved surface? Sure, you could use a flexible measuring tape (the kinds used by tailors), but you’d probably struggle with accuracy. Here’s a thought – we’re limited by the tools we have at our disposal. Provide better tools and techniques, and those limitations vanish. What if I told you there was a way to measure short AND long distances with ease, as well as to measure the distance of curved surfaces? What if I told you we’ve been doing it for centuries, but without realizing it? Still confused?

Designer: Tiancheng Liang of HOZO Design

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Your motorcycle/car’s odometer is basically a pretty foolproof distance-measuring tool. The way it works is ridiculously simple. The wheels of your vehicle roll in a particular direction, drawing a path. The number of rolls multiplied by the circumference of the wheel is basically a pretty accurate measure of distance, over short and long paths, and over curved ones too. Scale the wheel and odometer down and you’ve got the ROLLOVA V2.0, a digital ruler that can basically measure distances as long as you want. Roll the device from point A to point B, and the ROLLOVA V2.0 gives you an accurate calculation of the distance covered. Roll it in a circle and you get the circumference, roll it on an undulating surface and you’ll still get an accurate capture of the distance; without fumbling with tapes, scales, threads, or worse… calculators.

Limited edition 18K gold-played Designer Edition.

Shaped like a compact, pocketable hockey puck-ish device made from 7075 Aluminum alloy, the ROLLOVA V2.0 has a textured rubber tread around its rim that rotates as you push it across surfaces. Move it in a straight line or a curved one, the indicator at the base tells you your starting and ending points, while a nifty 1.3″ OLED screen on the front gives you your measurements, using an OLED display and a perforated stainless steel cover in front of it, to give it a safe housing as well as make the digits on the screen appear pixelated like a calculator.

The ROLLOVA V2.0 is capable of measuring in both inches and centimeters (depending on your industry/country) and thanks to the new OVA 2.0 chip on the inside, it can measure up to 0.25mm (with a tolerance of 0.4%) while being much more power efficient compared to its 2018 edition. Whether you use it in metric or imperial measuring modes, the device can chart up to 999.9cm in metric mode, 99.99 inches in inches decimal mode, or 999.9 inches in inches fraction mode and save up to 99 measurements on the device for you to access whenever you need. If you’re measuring in a closed corner or a confined space, a simple function lets you add the Rollova’s radius or diameter to your measurement too.

Using the Rollova V2.0 is as simple as pressing a button and rolling the device across surfaces. Unlike the conventional tape measure, the Rollova can be used by a single person, and can fit right into your pocket, making it an essential tool of trade for industrial designers, architects, fashion designers, transportation designers, and engineers. It runs on 2 replaceable CR1632 batteries, providing 2 years of usage, so you can measure distances without worrying about constantly charging it. The ROLLOVA V2.0 is currently shipping with a tag of $89 for its standard aluminum-body variant… although if you’re a creative professional who prides themselves on using the finest equipment, you can snag a limited-edition 18K gold-plated variant of the Rollova V2.0 for $109!

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This tiny laser device can replace every single measuring tool you currently use…

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Architecture, engineering, designing – all these professions are often associated with ‘building the future’. Yet they rely on tools and instruments from over a 100 years ago to get the job done.

Meet MEAZOR, an advanced measuring tool that can measure distances, scan floor plans, calculate angles, convert measurements between imperial and metric systems, and can even scale up or down your measurements. In short, this tiny device replaces your measuring tape, laser measuring gun, spirit-level, protractor, and even your scale/ruler… and it’s about as small as a burner phone.

The tiny measuring device comes with a design and form factor that’s highly reminiscent of the rather iconic Motorola Aura from 2008. Its distinctly familiar design aside, the MEAZOR is an incredibly powerful measuring device, capable of accurately scanning floor plans, measuring small and large distances (even on curved paths), working as a contour gauge, and saving all your metrics to your phone. Its curved design sports a wheel on one side (that lets you measure distances by rolling on surfaces), and a laser gauge on the other side (working as an accurate 2D scanner and laser measurer). Sitting between them is a circular multi-touch display, and a single button interface that allows you to measure distances, save the metrics, and share them to your phone. Once the measurement/profile/2D-scan makes its way to your smartphone, you can edit them, update them, convert metrics, and even share orthographic and plan drawings in popular formats. A process that requires tapes, spirit levels, rolls of blueprint paper, and infinite amounts of patience, gets reduced to a job that can take mere seconds.

The MEAZOR is powerful on its own, but is taken to the absolute next level when you pair it with the smartphone app. On its own, the MEAZOR can accurately measure small distances as well as large ones. For smaller distances, the rolling wheel lets you measure simply by rolling along any given line – straight or curved. The laser lets you easily measure large distances. You can either use it as you would a laser gun, pointing from one wall to another to calculate the distances between the two, or just attaching the MEAZOR to a tripod and swiveling it 360° to generate an accurate floor plan of a room in just seconds. You can switch between metric and imperial units right within the MEAZOR device, and even program it to scale up or down your measurements by any factor. MEAZOR records your measurements on the device, saving them as units as well as 2D plans. You can share these plans directly with devices using Bluetooth, or better still, bring them up in the MEAZOR app on your smartphone to perform CAD-level editing on them right from your mobile app. The MEAZOR app combines the device’s advanced measuring capabilities with your smartphone’s incredible computing power. Floor plans are saved to the phone as vector data that can be drawn on, edited, or updated. Floor plans can easily be populated with windows, doors, stair details, wall thicknesses right within your smartphone – this would require a computer running expensive CAD software a few years back. Once edited, vectors and 2D maps can be exported and shared with clients, collaborators, or contractors.

At less than 4 inches in length, the MEAZOR is the smallest laser room scanner currently available. Given its size, it’s impressive how it even replaces practically every measuring tool from a protractor to an inch tape. Even its laser measuring gauge is accurate up to 82 feet (25 meters). On the inside, a STM32 microprocessor handles all the heavy lifting, while the MEAZOR’s battery itself has a 30-day standby time. The MEAZOR device ships with a Type-C charging cable, a mini-tripod (for room scans), and a small screwdriver that lets you open up and replace parts down the line. The essential MEAZOR bundle ships for $129, and you can throw in an extra $29 for replacement parts, a soft-rubber cover case, and a circular screen-guard, or upgrade to the expert MEAZOR bundle (for an additional $49) and get an aluminum tripod, a 32-inch extension bar, and a soft-shell EVA carrying case for your entire kit.

Designer: Tiancheng Liang of HOZO Design

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MEAZOR – Adapts to Any of your Measurement Need

The MEAZOR is a compact multifunctional digital measuring tool with a floorplan scanning function.

3 Core Functions

2D Floor Plan Scanning – From Capture to Cadaster in a Flash

– Simply rotate it by 360°
– Perform meticulous measuring for high-end floorplan scanning in seconds

Rolling Measurer – Lines, Curves, Scale units & More

– Every detail is precise from the straightest possible edges to the most detailed arcs with the curve scanning function
– It converts metric and imperial units and even customized scales

Laser Distance Measurer – Reliable Measurements Up to 82 feet (25 meters).

– A high-quality 25 meters/80 feet laser measuring module puts MEAZOR leagues ahead of conventional laser measurement devices

Additional Features

MEAZOR adapts to software upgrades via Bluetooth connection. With its upgradable system, your MEAZOR will always be the most up-to-date companion of any measuring situation.

MEAZOR App

MEAZOR can measure and save data by itself, and with MEAZOR APP, it adapts your work to unlimited possibilities.

With MEAZOR’s intuitive smartphone app, users can draw, edit, and save unlimited measuring results. Then exports vector drawings and measuring data in various formats for further editing.

Compact & Portable

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