I saw this picture on the photoblog This Isn’t Happiness, and presumed it was a set of weighing scales that lets you know whether your weight is closer to that of the waif-like multimillion dollar heiress or the baguette-strewn European land mass.

However, following the image back to its source reveals it’s actually a device that mointors news and search results for “paris hilton” and “paris france” in real time, displaying which one turns up more frequently.

Anyway, my misinterpretation (whose function I kinda prefer) got me thinking of other binary readout criteria that could be used on a set of weighing scales.

Here are a few ideas:

Any more?