In today’s smartphone-dominated age, it’s easy to forget about the humble land line. But land lines still have a number of applications. For one thing, they serve as a backup system. If your smartphone battery is dead or the local cell tower is down, you can still make a phone call. And for businesses, land …
When you’re working with devices that are mechanical in nature, it’s just a matter of time until you’re coming into contact with parts that spin. And sometimes you’ll want to know exactly how fast those parts are spinning. It’s all but impossible to accurately eye-ball even slow spinning objects, especially if you’re looking for real …
Getting a good picture or a well-balanced video requires the right lighting. If you’re just snapping selfies for social media, you can always wing it. But for professional work, the light level and exposure time need to be matched. For video, this is even more important. Getting the same light balance from one location to …
Whether it’s in the lab or in the field, you may find yourself needing to calculate force. You could try material testers or a load cell, but the simplest and elegant answer to repeated force testing is a digital force gauge. Modern force gauges use many of the same traditional techniques to measure force that …
Paint coating thickness meters are responsible for undertaking a pretty important job. Measuring coating thickness can be essential for quality control, material testing, paint inspection, shop work, used car markets, industrial lacquering, and so forth. Depending on the type of tasks you have in mind, finding the right thickness gauge usually isn’t tough. Picking the …