WatchScale attempts to become the new calculator watch
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 21st 2008 9:09AM
posted Aug 21st 2008 9:09AM
[Thanks, Nate]
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Uff! now when i go buy some coke or hero i can weight them and know im not being scammed! lol
The only person scamming you was your English teacher.
I'm not sure how useful this'd be for powders, what with it being 0.1g and not 0.01g
psssh. my dealer has had one like this forever.
Give The Government a week or two and they'll label this ""drug paraphernalia".
Fantastic!
Now when I have to measure out product I will never have to find my scale!
Great, now I know what to get my dealer for Christmas.
i bet this is gonna be a lot more popular than we think.
ya, i dont think so
From the link: "Your friends will gawk and say 'Holy cow!' when they see this amazing invention."
So do I. I bet they sell one.
For the weed dealer on the go.
This thing is useless. How many weed dealers use the metric system?
what, do you buy stuff in ounces?
pshh everyone knows that 1/8 oz is 3.5 grams...
No worries, it measures up to 10.583 +/- 0.001 ozs
Dude, ALL my dealers use onces.
Oops, I meant grams.
28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2.5 pounds(give or take) in a kilo. Who says people who smoke pot are dumb. Everywhere the world over, those are the measurements for buying drugs. Grams and ounces folks. I've been a smoker of POT, great Canadian POT, for over 20 years. I can do that shit up in my brain and since I've been at it for over two decades I can now palm weight a gram easy, even an ounce or even an eighth.
"Oops, I meant grams."
Put down the blunt
Ploy to get the americans to switch to metric via their popular pastime? Devlish.
In Canada all the dealers use ounces and grams. Depending on how much your buying.
Rich, most drug dealers worldwide deal in grams for fairly obvious reasons, and even in the US if you want to be a drug dealer you better know how to convert grams to ounces and vice versa or you're really just not qualified for the job.
But seriously dealers will know what you mean whether you ask for 7 grams or a quarter.
Gold plate it and stick some (OK, lots) of sparklies on it and BINGO! You will have at least one 'gansta rapper' (are there really still any?) wearing it.
[dealer joke]
News: In the latest fad of drug dealers, Watchscales have become a huge hit in the city of Baltimore
LOL @ lack of drug references in article
Useful, if you're living in Amsterdam ;)
Or... um, anywhere else in the world.
The new Weight Watchers® official accessory? =P
Nah, it only weighs up to 300 grams, not 300 pounds! ;-)
They can weight their donuts...
It's craptastic!!!
you boys at engadget to scared to mention drugs? wtf else are you going to use this for, I think my local jeweller would have better taste then that.
yeah I saw drug dealers immediately.
and....? what was their response?
know what I'd use it for? not drugs. can't think of anything else.
Well at least now you'll be able to show your dealer how much he's shorting you so you don't have to look him up after the fact. What else would this be good for?
now if only they made a watch grinder and a watch vaporizer, collect all 3!
Don't forget the WatchBong so you can keep track of the hits. I would buy this collection for novelty sakes.
{Insert some drug dealer reference here}
LOL, this is dumb and all the same funny, yet useful....it must be a gadget!! Cool! (Not being sarcastic BTW)
Can't wait to see all the creative magazine ads they'll indirectly market to drug dealers.
"Always on the go? Watchscale. Precision at every corner."
"What's the difference between 1 and .8 grams? Watchscale. Proof you round up."
Wow, 96% drug-related comments. Didn't even cross my mind, though I admit it seems pretty obvious after someone mentions it.
Didn't even cross my mind
.....rrrright.
Perhaps some substance was clouding his alertness?
Drugs were the first thing I thought of when I saw this. I figured I'd post a witty comment about a coke dealer. Disappointment abounds.
Why'd you come to the comments, if not to make a belated drug reference. That's what the rest of us are doing here. Between hits, that is.
I'm labeling it that right now. but honestly how am I to use this accurately without having to take it off all the time. FAIL! you know when ya really need to advertise that you're a dealer of some kind. Cocaine comes to mind when I first saw this.
BRING BACK RYAN BLOCK.
Can anyone come up with a legimate non drug use for this thing???