Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Convert boring units to real objects- cool tool you must see


How long is 1 km. We all know. Its 1000m! But does that help you visualize the length? Well wouldn't it be sensible if we had some units which showed these measurements in day to day items!


Sensibleunits.com is the site for you.

1 km equals 13 airbus A380s side by side or 17 Boeing 747s side by side or 20 Olympics swimming pools or 3.1 Eiffel Towers. Now isn't that sensible and easy to remember.

Find out more about this unit here. Thanks labnol. So how can you use it.

you can use it to get interesting facts on the units . This is much easier to remember. And if you have this units handy its much easier to explain your measurement theories to anyone not comfortable with units.

what do you think? In what other ways can you use this information.





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