Pikimal

A better way to Choose, Rank, Review, Compare, and Filter electronics, baby products, food and health, cars. Interesting resource this. They have lots of categories (charities, careers, gadgets, gaming, software) and subjects within them. You can then go in and consider the subject of choice and compare it to others. This can then help you make a choice on what you buy, or potentially even what career you go into. I did a quick comparison of a Kindle and another ebook reader and was impressed. I also looked at the 'Librarian' career and was amused that under 'Emotional requirements' Stress was ticked, so they were right on the button with that.

Obviously with resources like this there are limitations. If the thing you're interested in isn't available, there isn't much you can do except request it. The other major problem is that this is US biased, which I understand, but it does limit it somewhat. Otherwise, it's a fun tool.

Comments

[Eric]

Phil,

Thanks for writing about Pikimal - we appreciate you helping to get the word out.

I was curious to understand better what you meant by saying that our tool is "US biased." Do you mean that we only put our metrics in imperial units or is the problem deeper than that?

Thanks again!