{"id":7453,"date":"2010-05-13T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2021-12-05T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T17:29:56","slug":"new-gadget-portable-electronic-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=7453","title":{"rendered":"New Gadget: Portable Electronic Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the postman rang the bell today I was wondering what it was as I didn&#8217;t remember ordering anything recently. To confuse matters further, it was labelled &#8220;USB Interface&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Only when I opened it did I remember my post from two weeks back: &#8220;Tried to sleep at midnight, failed. Listened to music on phone, got bored, browsed internet on phone, got on ebay, &#8220;hey that&#8217;s useful!&#8221; &#8230; And a few taps later have ordered and paid for another gadget. All without getting out of bed!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This was the &#8220;useful gadget&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/68-2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s extremely light itself, and weighs loads from 20g to a maximum of 40kg (probably more than my baggage allowance will ever be).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/68-3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So no more guessing the weight of my bags when travelling, or dragging luggage to the bathroom to try on the weighing scales there.<\/p>\n<p>Cost: USD7.55 \/ RM24.25 including shipping.<\/p>\n<p>(.sha wanders off weighing stuff around the house)<\/p>\n<p><i>This post was originally published as a Facebook Note at 2010-05-13 16:09:42 +0800.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the postman rang the bell today I was wondering what it was as I didn&#8217;t remember ordering anything recently. To confuse matters further, it was labelled &#8220;USB Interface&#8221;: Only when I opened it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8074,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions\/8074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}