8.9.09

Liquid crystal deodorant weighs 87 grams or three ounces


Rocky Mountain Soap Company's natural liquid crystal deodorant weighs 87 grams or three ounces.

The small size and weight makes it a great product to carry on backpacking trips.

It sounds pretty good too.

7.9.09

A wearable mini Digital Video camcorder weighs 40 grams or 1.4 ounces

The uCorder, a 3.5” wearable mini Digital Video camcorder from iRes Technology Corp. of Toronto, weighs 40 grams and is able to record up to seven hours of video and audio.

Are you kind of jealous of Toronto film maker Rob Spence's Eyborg Project? Want to be able to record your daily life without the hassle of developing a prosthetic eye that contains a wireless video camera?

Then the uCorder is clearly for you!

It can be worn in a shirt pocket with its integrated clip, attached to a lanyard as a necklace, or pinned to clothing. You can record lectures, family moments, vacations and drunken nights our with friends.

Neat.

29.7.09

A projector weighs 4 pounds or 1.8 kilograms

An Epson PowerLite 1700 series projector weighs about 4 pounds.

At only four pounds, it is great if you have to lug one around to presentations, meetings or movie nights at a friend's place.

To put four pounds in perspective, it is as much as 12 apples, 2 litres of water or a kitten.

28.7.09

A scooter weighs 91 kilograms or 200 pounds

This 50 cc scooter from Vancouver-based Rayben weighs 91 kilograms or 200 pounds.

With free parking in some major cities and efficient fuel use it is clear why scooters sales have increased 69 per cent since 2004, but I'd want to ride one for a different reason:

The Mad Bastard Scooter Rally is a 800 km 24-hour scooter endurance rally in Ontario. Some photos from this year's race can be seen here. It looks like a lot of fun, and a great reason to buy a scooter.

22.7.09

An inflatable kayak weighs 15 pounds or 6.8 kilograms

The Airis Play 8, the world's most rigid inflatable kayak, weighs only 15 pounds.

It squeezes into a backpack and according to Kayak Yak "portaging it over rocks onto the beach was easy". The review on boatsbikesboards make it sound like a lot of fun.

19.7.09

A bicycle helmet weighs 550 grams or 19.4 ounces

A medium sized Bern Watts bicycle helmet weighs 550 grams or 19.4 ounces.

I bought mine from Bobbin Bicycles, the best bike shop in London for accessories.
Stylish bicycle helmets are hard to come by, especially for ladies. Big bike shops seem to think that men only want helmets with lightening bolts or flashy stripes, and that women only want to wear pink. Finding the awesome selection at Bobbin came as a relief.

The internet weighs between 2 micrograms and 60 grams

From this blog by The Guardian, the internet weighs between 2 micrograms and 60 grams, depending on the method you use to calculate it.

It might weigh two ounces or it might weigh 0.2 millionths of an ounce.

I'd like to know how much this blog weighs, but blogging about the weight of a blog that blogs about weights might be a paradox or something.