Haptic Weather Forecaster Lets You Feel Tomorrow’s Temperature

The Sun ? Clouds ? Little wavy melodic phrase ? These deep icon used by meteorologist only dish to confuse those of us wanting to know tomorrow ’s prognosis . SoRobb Godshawcreated this easy - to - understand forecasting machine that lets you feel what tomorrow ’s temperature will be .

Robb , an industrial design student at Rochester Institute of Technology , create the Cryoscope from a heat sink , cooling fan , and a Peltier component , which is kind of like a thermo - electrical pump that can transfer heat from one area to another . All the elements are case in an aluminum cube which fire up up or cools down to meditate tomorrow ’s promise air travel temperature .

A simple web app lets you define your location , so the forecast is — you know — exact . And on the undersurface of the regular hexahedron a red and risque colored LED provides a visual cue stick to the predicted temp , in case the Cryoscope is hot enough to make you wish you had n’t bear upon it . [ Robb GodshawviaCnet ]