Measurement was once again a hot topic at this year’s Skoll Forum; with seven measurement-related sessions over three days, it eclipsed other perennially popular topics like funding and innovation.

For a long time, displacement sensors were seen as simple tools devices that measure how far something moves from one point ...

That old bubble level in the garage might outperform your brand-new digital one.

How innovations in visibility, usability, and smart sensing are changing who uses tools—and how. For centuries, measurement tools have been essential to architecture, engineering, construction, real ...

How things measure up is pretty important to us. We don't just look at objects, we automatically scale them in our minds, guessing about width, height, and how they might fit in our world. We make ...