The tempescope is an ambient physical display that visualizes various weather conditions like rain, clouds, and lightning. Based on weather forecasts from the internet, it can reproduce tomorrow’s sky in your living room.
Tempescope is a device that physically recreates rain, sunshine, lighting and fog to match the weather forecast.
New technology offers to bring a crystal ball-like forecast to the comfort of the living room of your home.
The new appliance, Tempescope — created by a Japanese startup founded by software engineer Ken Kawamoto — will mimic all weather outside, including sunshine, rain, fog or lightning.
The device can sync to a weather forecast app on your phone to see your local forecast. Other functions allow users to see weather conditions from any part of the world.
But users can also program the device to display what best shows his or her mood.
For example: if it’s a sunny day but you’re feeling blue, just adjust the device to make it rain.
The device is comprised of a water pump, mist diffuser and colored LEDs.
The developers are selling the kits because they’d “like the first people to use this gadget to be OK with taking the extra few steps to finish this off, in the spirit of our open source roots. (And it makes the cost to produce about half what it would be.)”
Kawamoto hopes to begin shipping devices by at least April 2016.