Not drunk but I saw a guy using an infrared thermometer with a laser beam on it
and just had to have one. About thirteen quid off of Amazon, it's a great toy if you spend a lot of time alone.
My back wall is currently 20.5C, my ceiling is 21C, freezer -18C and my woodburner last night was 382C.
Every boy should have one.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Apr 2014, 18:03, 20 replies)

Imagine
If you had this and a laser rangefinder, you could find out just how far away from hot you were.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 15 Apr 2014, 18:12, closed)

That would be like massive overstimulation man.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Apr 2014, 18:37, closed)

oh man ... you could spend literally hours testing the inverse square law of radiation

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 15 Apr 2014, 19:58, closed)

Want one. Must have one. What if it had a some sort of way of you naming your household objects,
send the results over wifi and then you could start a database of temperature. Fascinating to review on a quarterly basis with charts. I am in.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Tue 15 Apr 2014, 18:51, closed)

Yes!
League tables of who has the hottest fire/oven/boiler/wife.
Already established the dog's cold nose theory is true, compared to its arse that is.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Apr 2014, 19:27, closed)

^officelol

(The Magic Number is neither magic nor a number, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 11:43, closed)

You could call it "AmIHotOrNot"

....oh, wait...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 11:51, closed)

Update. Room temp 21C. Tv screen 30C, my left sock 24.6C

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Apr 2014, 19:32, closed)

I read back wall as ball wack

( A Rory Borealis here under duress, Tue 15 Apr 2014, 21:36, closed)

I red your u/n as A Borey Whorey Arsehole.
Us illiterates should from a grope.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Apr 2014, 21:58, closed)

^another officelol
You're going to get me sacked
(The Magic Number is neither magic nor a number, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 11:44, closed)

Update for followers.
Wood burner now reading 179C
Cooling down phase.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 15 Apr 2014, 22:03, closed)

I did something similar and now i own 2
simultaneous wall temperature ignorance banished!
(djlumpyrulesok beware of cousin Mosquito and his solo, Tue 15 Apr 2014, 22:50, closed)

Point one at the other's laser to find out how hot the lasers really are!

(c0ckweasle is <s>quite impressed</s> a cunt, Thu 17 Apr 2014, 0:12, closed)

You should try to find out the flight cabin temperature of every passing jet plane

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 15 Apr 2014, 23:15, closed)

Accurate aim could be a problem.
Tell you what, tie the laser thermometer to the face-end of a long, black-painted (so it doesn't reflect sunlight onto the thermometer) brush handle.

Try various points under its landing path to find the optimum location.
(SlantedScience, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 2:53, closed)

Now a tutorial.
This is taking off!
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 7:48, closed)

I got one fo £9 off eBay
I probably should've bought a more expensive one, the laser is a bit overspec so if I catch a reflection of it off a shiny surface it knackers my eyesight for about 10 minutes. Found that one out measuring the temperature of things inside a PC. I tend not to bother with the laser now.
(squigbobble existed, Wed 16 Apr 2014, 9:36, closed)

You're right. not really needed but that's half the fun.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 14:11, closed)

Status update: switched off, conserving battery.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 14:11, closed)

amateur


actually not, borrowed from work. But can't you see how awesome this would be next time you're drunk and on eBay?
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 16 Apr 2014, 23:41, closed)

Wow!
Will it do a dog too?
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 17 Apr 2014, 8:50, closed)