If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

After an apparent seven-year hiatus, the electronic tape measure has returned... with a smartphone-era upgrade. If you don't see the screen, the E-Tape looks like any typical tape measure you'd find ...

“A tape measure is absolutely crucial, whether you are measuring for a future piece of furniture or planning out something more detailed like a kitchen cabinet,” says Ming Thompson, principal of New ...

Carpenter Sam Worley, 37, stood next to the massive hole in the ground that one day will be the site of the nation’s largest federal courthouse and shook his head in exasperation. Straining to read ...

Amid all the high-tech of a modern woodshop, the classic tape measure seems almost anachronistic (unless you are really old school or in Europe where they still uses wooden folding rules). But new ...

Working with measuring tapes in inches and feet can often require mental math, and even if fractions are printed on the scale, they're nearly impossible to read anyway. Metric tape measures come in ...