What happens when a pocket calculator and a tape measure have a baby? Why, a Smart String Tape Measure. By the way, that’s the name of the product: Smart String. It’s basically a tape measure for ...

Yeh, metal-tape measures stopped being cool right around the time ThinkGeek started selling the Smart String, which has 50-inches of retractable string that can bend around curved things. BUT WAIT! It ...

I believe in alternative measures. Instead of using a metal measuring tape to figure out how long or how wide or how deep something is, I use other methods. Like string. Not long ago I used a piece of ...

You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects. But unless you know how to use a tape measure and correctly read its ...