iPin Laser Ruler is an accessory presented at Computex in Taipei these days and with its help any person who owns one iPhone it can measure the distances between its terminal and nearby objects. The accessory is inserted into the 3.5 mm audio port of the iPhone terminals to receive current, then it activates its laser to display a point on the object to which we want to calculate the distance, the image above being as clear as possible.
Opening an application on the iPhone will activate the terminal's camera, which will focus on the point created by the accessory's laser and calculate the distance between our terminal and that point projected on the object. According to the manufacturers, the device has an error rate of 1% in the case of measuring distances of up to 3 meters, exceeding them giving inaccurate readings in most cases.
iPin Laser Ruler is an accessory dedicated to those who like to play with iPhone terminals and possibly brag to their friends about what a smartphone can do, because in most other conditions the idea is useless. The exception is the situation where you want to make many measurements and you want to save all the data in a format that is then easy to transfer to a computer, the application being extremely useful here.
iPin Laser Ruler is to be launched on the market by the end of this year at a price of 56 dollars, quite high if we take into account the fact that the price of a simple measuring roller is more than 10 times lower.
