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Posted by hipstomp | 7 Feb 2012
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Robb Godshaw is an industrial design student at R.I.T., and he's come up with a strange and brilliant invention: The Cryoscope Haptic Weathervane, which is essentially a tactile temperature indicator. Touch it and you can feel what the temperature is outside.
The Cryoscope is equipped with a heat sink, a thermoelectric-cooling Peltier element, and a cooling fan, all combined and operated by an Arduino controller that receives forecast data from a Web-based app, all neatly enclosed in an aluminium cube ready to be touched.
You might think "Why would someone need this?" I totally need this: I live in windowless apartment with a deceptively drafty interior. I literally have to go downstairs and outside of my building to see how hot or cold it is outside and if it's raining or not.
Sadly, Godshaw's project, though it appears to work, will apparently remain in the concept stage, with no plans for production.
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I definitely want one. Seems a lot more real than numbers.
NEATO!
Nice thought, but i'd imagine it's actually quite hard to match with what your hand feels to an outfit for the day.
Temperature isn't 'just' a number, it triggers your association between comfort and external conditions and how to meet in the middle between the two.
Killer idea. Maybe it could also have a reservoir for all the condensation it will create!
One cannot go wrong with a rainbow ribbon cable.
Or you could just touch the window.
In a windowless apartment (how come?), how would this have a connection to outdoors? Just a thought . . .
Can this thing really simulate a -20 F temperature like many of the Northern states might encounter during the winter months? It would be totally covered in ice if it could.
'Or you could just touch the window.'
The window with tomorrow's temperature on the other side, thats right yea.
They don't call him GODshaww for nothing. Hweh hweh hweh.
How much aluminum are you going to be touching all day? Aluminum on your fingertips feels very different from cold or hot air around you, or steel in the sun, or a cold vinyl steering wheel, or rain.