Tape measures are DIY necessity, but for measuring long distances a digital laser measuring device can't be beat. You can instantly measure lengths of up to 800 feet by yourself, and these tools can ...

The Disto A8 is a handheld laser distance-measuring tool with a built-in digital viewfinder and tilt sensor. The viewfinder provides three zoom levels and nine brightness settings, making it easy to ...

Measuring distances accurately has become significantly easier with the advent of smartphone technology, particularly with the array of distance measuring apps available for both Android and iPhone.

Google Earth is getting a new Measure tool today that will let you — you guessed it — measure the distance and area of things on the map. With the tool, users can measure the distance between two ...

How innovations in visibility, usability, and smart sensing are changing who uses tools—and how. For centuries, measurement tools have been essential to architecture, engineering, construction, real ...

Measuring geodesic distance—that's distance as the crow flies, or the literal shortest route between two points—on Google Maps long required an oddly analog approach: You looked at the map’s scale and ...

Google released an update to Google Earth today that allows you to measure the distance between two locations or the square feet of an area. Now when you get into an argument with a friend about how ...