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Homemade Tornado Machine
Have you every felt the need to have a funnel cloud swirling around in your living room? Maybe the idea of a rushing vortex of air really steams your clams? If this is indeed the case, look no further than this machine that you can build from spare parts. Highly detailed instructions on how to … Continued
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Live at Macworld: With HOBO Data Loggers, Pretend You Stepped Outside Today
HOBO data loggers from Onset record temperature, light intensity, rainfall, wind speed, and other environmental conditions. The kilowatt-hour transducer is the most obviously practical: for $270-295, $299 for a data logger, and about $110 for a current transformer and pulse input adapter, you can track which of your home gadgets are pulling the most power. … Continued
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An Umbrella That Makes Sense (We Think)
Do you demand the dopest umbrella around with the ultimate rain-prediction technology? Look no further than the Forcasting Umbrella from Ambient Devices. Announced at CES, the Forcasting Umbrella does what every umbrella on the face of the earth should do: lets you know if it’s going to rain. The umbrella is connected to Ambient’s network … Continued
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Oregon Scientific Regional Weather Station Reviewed (Verdict: Not SPOTty At All)
I’ve been watching SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) for a few years now and I’ve never been blown away. However, this weather station seems to get a few things right—it uses a dedicated data stream to pick up excellent weather info, it never needs setting, and it does what it’s supposed to do without lots … Continued
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Drones Watching Rita
NOAA has been sending an unmanned Aerosonde drone airplane over this last wave of monster hurricanes to amass unprecedented weather data, a kind of sweet use of a technology developed for military intelligence. Also recently flipping their switches from Evil to Good have been the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s spy satellites, as they’ve mapped the path … Continued
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Thunder In Your Palm
Next time you go out on a “dark and stormy night”, you might want to bring along a safety net. Spectrum Electronics’ “Thunderbolt Storm Detector” is a handheld, portable device that detects storm and lightning activity from over 75 miles away and then warns you about the storm’s distance, approach speed, intensity, and estimated arrival … Continued
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