Brendan Leonard has a smartphone that converts usual measurement units into measurement units that are used in other situations. Who in the world would think about how many metric teaspoons it would take before a water bottle is full? Certainly not me. But what was Leonard’s purpose in doing such a thing? He writes this on his article over at Outside Online:
This app got me thinking about how contrived all of our units of measurement are, but how they seem to make sense when we apply them to the correct things. Like I always think of backpacks in terms of how many liters they can hold, because I can easily visualize what a Nalgene water bottle looks like, and I can visualize 40 or 60 water bottles fitting in a backpack.
To be honest, he has a point.
The app is called Units Plus, by the way.
Here are some of Leonard’s unconventional conversions. See the rest over at the site.
(Image Credit: Brendan Leonard/ Outside)
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