In these years we have learned that you can do almost everything online, order groceries, buy as in stores, communicate in video chat with a distant friend, create personalized business cards and find the answer to almost every question and guide for each activity . But there are also many particular sites on the internet that allow you to do useful and special things online that few would think possible.
For example, you can take an audiometric test, you can measure the pupil distance, calculate the menstrual cycle, follow training programs or learn new foreign languages.
In this article, therefore, a collection of some of the most useful and curious sites, which make it possible to do things on the internet that you would never have thought of.
1) Find the size of a ring
If you are buying a ring as a gift and you don't know what size it should be in order not to stay tight or wide on your ring finger, you can go to the FindMyRingSize.com website.
First you need to calibrate the instrument by placing a credit card or driving license on the screen and then you can press Next to find the size of a ring.
From the drop-down menu in the center of the page, where Change Scale is written, you can also choose the Italian unit of measurement.
If you don't have another ring to compare, you can use the virtual ruler of the site.
2) Try glasses frames on your face
I had already talked about this topic in the past and there are various sites where you can upload your photo or be framed by the webcam to virtually try on several pairs of glasses to find the ones that are better before buying them.
3) Find the best places to sit on any plane flight
When booking a plane, you can always choose the place to sit.
Before making this choice, however, it is best to go to the SeatGuru website, enter the airline and flight number to see the seat map with all the information about it.
The most uncomfortable places are shown in red, the ones with some inconvenience in yellow and the most comfortable ones with the closest comforts and within reach or the more spacious ones, where you can stretch your legs.
The indications of the site, even if in English, are complete for any air flight in the world.
4) Regarding air flights, there are also sites on the internet to follow the routes of air flights in real time and to check the arrival and departure times of air flights at the airport.
5) Print 3D images
There is a site that allows you to print any image of an object in 3 dimensions.
Shapeways allows you to upload drawings or even photos in some pre-prepared molds and, if possible, they can be 3D printed.
Shipping should also be feasible in Italy.
Another similar site is Materialize.com
6) FlashFace is one of those sites for drawing faces online and making identikits from scratch.
7) Previous versions of almost any website can be visited on the Archive Wayback Machine Internet site which has over 150 billion web pages from 1996 until a couple of months ago.
Just type in a web address and you can go back in time to see what it was like and how it changed over time.
8) Taking the audiometric test to measure hearing is possible with some online tests to be done on the computer, using headphones.
9) Staying in the medical field, it is also possible to do an online eye exam with the eye chart and the test for color blindness
10) Other sites allow you to create personalized certificates and certificates to be printed for free and are useful for games, competitions or private courses.
In other articles we have seen that on the internet you can also:
11) Find the right word in a sentence
12) Extract random numbers
13) Look for symptoms of disease and pain
14) Create fake online news or invented newspaper articles
15) Try on clothes online
16) Calculate the menstrual cycle
17) Make up online, change your look and get a face lift in photos
18) Online fitness, gym exercises, cards and videos to follow via the web
19) Online telescope to explore space
20) Play online
