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Remember when cellphones were just a simple communication device? Nowadays smartphones can do just about anything you can imagine, that even includes weighing objects. Thanks to Simon Gladman, you can now take two objects set them on your screen, and your iPhone will be able to tell you which one of the objects is heavier. The app, which is called the Plum-O-Meter, displays the normalized force of each object on the screen as a percentage and uses a yellow highlight to indicate which object is heaviest. So it’s close to a scale, but instead of giving you weight, it compares weights between two objects.
\nThe app works using the iPhone 6s 3D Touch feature<\/a>. While you may not see the point in being able to weigh two objects against each other on your iPhone screen, this app represents much more than that. Plum-O-Meter proves that 3D Touch can be used for much more than a shortcut menu or a way to play Live Photos. At the moment the use of 3D Touch may be limited, but as time goes on creative people like Simon will make 3D Touch a must have. Check out the video below to see it in action.
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