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

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

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.

When the iPhone was launched back in 2007, there were parody videos that showed the "real" potential of iPhone e.g. using it as bathroom scale. Looks like they weren't all that wrong :)

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

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.

Somewhat related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467847

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.

Now just you watch, as Apple removes JavaScript access to the 3D touch sensor data, hahaha :)

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

I don't have an iphone 6S, how accurate is it?

This is really clever!