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The Tempescope ambient weather display is coming to Indiegogo
The team behind the Tempescope has announced that they're launching an Indiegogo campaign for the device at the end of the month. The Tempescope is an "ambient weather display" that shows you tomorrow's weather with physical examples. That is, if it's going to be cloudy with light showers, the device itself will generate clouds and precipitation within its plexiglass cube. The current version of the device can recreate rain, clouds and lightning (though they're still working on getting it to snow). The team will be offering 2000 units at $200 a pop starting September 30th. Now if only there were a way to wire it up to your BloomSky.
The Tempescope shows you tomorrow's weather by physically creating it
Another very cool item hidden within CEATEC, Japan's biggest tech show, was the Tempescope. The team behind it call it "an ambient physical display that visualizes the weather, inside your living room" -- it's an elaborate lit-up box that shows you tomorrow's weather in a very classy, oddly relaxing, way. To work out exact what kind of weather it should summon, the Tempescope pulls hourly forecasts from a wireless connection from a PC (future models could pretty easily pluck similar information from your smartphone), and once the 'scope knows what's happening, it'll try to create those meteorological conditions inside the sealed cuboid you see above. A combination of water and ultrasonics creates the cloudy vapor inside the box, while water can also be gathered at the top, and dripped down to create rain. LED lights at the top attempt offer up an estimation of either thunder or sunshine, depending on what's going down tomorrow.
