By sending out clicks via the iPhone’s speaker and then measuring the time it takes to return to its microphone, Sonar Ruler can give a pretty accurate reading for how far a certain object is.
Clearly this is not going to be much use to people measuring anything other than walls or particularly large objects, but that said, its still pretty incredible. Watch the video here and try and resist downloading it…I couldn’t. (iTunes link)
Sonar Ruler Demo from cc laan on Vimeo.
Yeah I bought it. Can’t get an accurate measure in our noisy office though except at short ranges. Will play with it a bit more tonight.
Wow, suddenly some really smart thinkers are starting to emerge in the iPhone app space, very exciting!
Hi,
with my web application you can measure height. Download the free Accelerated Browser from the App Store and go to http://www.php10.de/ithrow.
:-)
Christian
Very nice, but it should be measuring CENTIMETERS instead of the unscientific “inches”!
The METRIC SYSTEM rules!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
It does measure meters , there is a units setting