{"id":1467,"date":"2017-10-01T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2017-10-01T15:27:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:27:55","slug":"a-new-measuring-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/a-new-measuring-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Measuring Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often write about people seeing a problem and fixing it &#8211; and that&#8217;s exactly what Josh Redstone did with the Euclid measuring cup. With a narrower base, the cup allows you to get a more precise liquid measurement than the traditional measuring cup. The animated GIF below shows you the increased error rate for a traditional cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-01-at-3.22.15-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1469\" src=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-01-at-3.22.15-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-01-at-3.22.15-PM-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-01-at-3.22.15-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-01-at-3.22.15-PM.png 752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/measuring-cup-animate.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1468 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/measuring-cup-animate.gif\" alt=\"Regular cup error rates: 1 cup = 6%; 3\/4 cup = 8%, 1\/2 cup = 11%, 1\/4 cup = 20%. Euclid cup is a 6% error for all amounts.\" width=\"680\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can support this project over on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1075898346\/euclid-a-more-accurate-measuring-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kickstarter<\/a> and get your own measuring cup for a pledge of $24.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mental_floss\/status\/914465678580690944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Mental_Floss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often write about people seeing a problem and fixing it &#8211; and that&#8217;s exactly what Josh Redstone did with the Euclid measuring cup. With a narrower base, the cup allows you to get a more precise liquid measurement than the traditional measuring cup. The animated GIF below shows you the increased error rate for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}