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Finally, a technical advancement to my favorite old-school measuring tool – and it’s on sale

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Mileseey Xtape1

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source — a tape measure that’s been supercharged with lasers and electronics — landed on my desk, I couldn’t wait to start doing some DIY with it.  

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The Xtape1 is a very different take on the laser tape measure. This one has a laser, yes (three, actually, a red one is used for measuring, and two green aligning beams) that’s good out to 330 feet and accurate to ±1/16-inch. But along with the laser rangefinder, this also features a 12-foot traditional metal tape measure accurate to ±1/32-inch. 

This makes it a very versatile tool, because while laser measuring tools are great for things like measuring rooms and such, they can’t be used for things like measuring lumber. 

The Xtape1 solves this with the combination of old and new.

The laser measurements are accurate to ±1/16-inch.

The laser measurements are accurate to ±1/16-inch.

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And once you’ve figured out the hardware, there’s an app to download and play with for both iOS. The app acts as a secondary display and can be used to log measurements, augmenting the built-in memory in the Xtape1 that can hold 3,000 measurements. 

Another interesting and innovative thing about the Xtape1 is that it’s a two-part unit, where the tape part is detachable from the rangefinder, so not only can you replace a damaged tape, but you can choose from imperial, metric, or imperial/metric combinations, and swap between them as needed.

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The unit is powered by a 1,500mAh battery that’s good for eight hours of use or around 30 days of standby, and it can be recharged via USB-C (it takes two to three hours to charge the unit from flat to full).

to be so feature-packed that it took me some time to figure out how to use it. There are a lot of features packed into this tool, but the more you use it, the easier it gets. Some of the features, such as the ability to point the laser at two points on the wall and get the length between them, are truly like magic. I played with this one a lot, convinced that it was going to be inaccurate, only to be proved wrong. 

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But a measuring computer like this isn’t going to be cheap. Currently you can get 40% off on Amazon, which brings the price down to a more reasonable $240 would be more your cup of tea, as it’s more like a traditional tape measure that can still do advanced things like work out areas of walls and volumes of rooms.  

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