[CEATEC 2015] The weather certainly plays a part in how our moods are like – where we tend to feel a whole lot more cheerful during a bright and sunny day, and a rainy day might produce some doom and gloom in one’s mood. Well, for those of us who happen to be enslaved, er, work in a cubicle within a high rise building, chances are you would have absolutely no idea as to the kind of weather that is on the outside, so perhaps having something in the flesh with a visual indicator of the weather outside would help far more. Enter the Tempescope, an Indiegogo project that still needs funding to become reality.
The Tempescope is a rectangular box that stands upright, where it will have few hundred milliliters of water stored within an enclosed environment. When it rains, the pumps will get to work, and inside you will see a mini shower happening, and should it be foggy (how about hazy?), then it will mist up. If the sun’s all out with no clouds in sight, then it will be all clear, while lightning and thunderstorms would see flashes of light occur. I suppose there is still more that can be done with this in the future, including throwing in a feature for hail and snow, but right now at least it works – and looks as though it works pretty great, too.
I did ask Ken, the brilliant mind behind the Tempescope, as to how regularly should we top up the water within, and he mentioned that one can always perform a scheduled check once a month, but normally it would not require too much maintenance at all. $199 will net you the Tempescope developer kit, while topping that amount up with another $50 will result in a laser engraved Tempescope kit for that added touch of class.
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