A GIANT 30m tape measure wrapped around a huge inflatable brain formed part of the launch for a Hampshire-based charity’s campaign highlighting why head measurements are so important in infancy.

I don’t know if it’s still done, but back in the 60’s when satellites used longer wavelengths for radiocomm. it was common to make antennas out of “tape measure” type material.

It's a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineers at the University of California ...