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BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
Baby, Is It Cold Outside? Many of us keep our radios set so we hear the weather report as soon as we wake up. But if you want to know the weather closer to home than the nearest airport, there are gadgets that tells you what's doing right outside your door.   |
Home Toys
December 2003 |
Personal Weather Stations -- A Home Toy that "Works" Solar powered, wireless weather stations that "look good" and have a full range of Plug-and-Play OEM-approved and supported software drivers for most home automation control systems can be purchased for around $2,000. |
Home Toys
April 2006
John Johnston |
Home Weather Station - Toy or Necessity A home weather station measures the ambient weather that defines a homeowner's microclimate. With that information and a connection to the Internet, various home automation systems can control some home functions in a near immediate response to changes in the weather. |
Scientific American
August 2006
Mark Alpert |
Weather Gets Personal New devices can make forecasts for your own backyard. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Bob Hetherington |
Somfy Awning Control System The downside of external awnings (to keep the heat out) is that they block the view all the time and can be torn off in a high wind situation. Enter the Somfy-Matic Sun and Wind Controller. This system comes with sensors that detect the sun intensity and wind velocity and control the awning. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2004 |
PASPORT Personal Weather Monitor The PASPORT Personal Weather Monitor allows students to gain new insight into the science of weather. |
Information Today
August 11, 2011 |
Social Media Features Included in New AccuWeather for Android App AccuWeather has introduced an AccuWeather for Android application for Android phones. |
DailyCandy
November 19, 2004 |
Weather or Not The new Wireless Weather Forecaster will eliminate your weatherman woes and give you an instant view of what's going on outside. No television or radio hassle. Just a sleek gadget. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Robert Gall & David Parsons |
It's Hurricane Season: Do You Know Where Your Storm is? Souped-up satellites, supercomputers, and superior science might soon mean you really can trust the weather report. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Weather Channel Adds Forecasts To Google Map New feature ties together leading online weather information from the Weather Channel, and mapping services from Google Maps. |
CIO
April 26, 2012
Agam Shah |
Intel Researchers Plot a Smarter, Personalized Cloud Intel researchers hope to combine sensors and cloud to deliver more accurate weather, air quality information |
National Defense
January 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Earth Needs More Robust Early Warning Space Weather Systems The challenge for the space community is making lawmakers who hold the purse strings understand the importance of space weather forecast, and the impact that events can have on modern technology. |
The Motley Fool
August 24, 2011
Travis Hoium |
A Little Fun With Solar Power Amid a tough earnings season, there's still cool technology being developed in solar. |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Solar Energy Charges Soldiers' Batteries The Army is developing solar panel technology to power surveillance cameras on rooftops in Iraq. |
Home Toys
June 2006
Mel Clapman |
Outdoor Speakers Outdoor speakers do not have to cost a fortune. But if you buy smartly and efficiently, the results could be priceless. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Rick Tinker |
The Cold Sweat and Hot Chills of HVAC Security With the increased reliability of HVAC home automation solutions, you can enjoy the benefits of control, convenience and energy savings in your home. By integrating the security system to the HVAC system, you can greatly simplify the effort of pulling it all together. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
Product Backgrounder: irriGuard The irriGuard system works with any existing sprinkler/irrigation system to shut off the system when watering is unnecessary. |
Home Toys
April 2005
Frank Geissler |
Now, Your Home Will Call You When There's a Problem While away, temperatures in your home or business will be carefully monitored, and you will automatically be notified via telephone whenever there is a dramatic on-site change in ambient temperature or other conditions. |
Wired
December 22, 2008
Rachel Swaby |
Cool Your Jets: South Korea's Airplane-Punishing Test Facility South Korea's Agency for Defense Development has built two 14,500-square-foot hangars that can subject planes to myriad atmospheric situations. |
CIO
August 25, 2014
Mike Gualtieri |
How Sensors Can Add Zing to Your Apps The addition of sensor data can turn boring applications into exciting ones that impress your customers, a Forrester analyst says. |
Home Toys
June 2004
Bert Centala |
Sensors Make "Sense" for Home Automation Environmental sensor products can be a welcome addition to almost any Home Automation system whether they are used to actively control HVAC devices or to simply monitor key environmental parameters. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005
Ben Ames |
Weather Forecasters Turn to High Technology From warfighting to civilian airline schedules, weather controls our lives. The modern meteorologist builds forecasting models on powerful computers, and pulls data from radars, satellites, and a global network of sensors deployed on airplanes, weather balloons, and ocean buoys. |
U.S. CPSC
February 9, 2005 |
Vernier Software & Technology Recall of Go! Temp Temperature Sensors When connected to a computer, a static discharge to the sensor can cause the sensor to draw too much current from the computer, causing the sensor to get hot. The sensor can get hot enough to cause a burn to the skin or damage objects in contact with it. |
Geotimes
June 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Sun Cycle to Flare Back up in 2008 Although the new cycle is predicted to be moderate in intensity, scientists warn that it may still strongly impact space-based technologies. |
Popular Mechanics
September 24, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Weaker Solar Wind Won't Slow Global Warming, May Threaten Astronauts If a spacecraft keeps chugging along for long enough, eventually it may find something startling. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2004
Cade Metz |
Get Out the Mote Sprinkled generously, "smart dust" wireless sensors get the message across. A form of the technology has already reached the marketplace. |
Chemistry World
October 25, 2012
Rebecca Brodie |
Energy harvesting from your phone display What if you could harness some of that wasted energy from your smartphone and put it back into the phone's battery? A group of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US have done just that. |
Popular Mechanics
December 18, 2008
Alex Hutchinson |
Trees to Power Their own Wildfire Sensors MIT researchers devised a sensor that could measure temperature and humidity and store enough energy to broadcast data four times a day. |
This Old House
Katelin Hill |
Little Ways to Save Big on Your Heating Bill Here are three changes you can make this winter that yield worthwhile returns. |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2010
Anne Casselman |
The High-Tech Weather Forecasting in the 2010 Winter Olympics Weather forecasting during the Olympics is always critical, but it will be even harder than usual this time around. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006 |
Modeling Toward Accurate Storm Forecasting For the time being, getting the weather right will still require a large dose of good fortune. But continued improvements in our weather predicting capabilities will eventually take the guessing out of storm prediction and bring us to the moment when wagering on the weather will be a safe bet indeed. |
Popular Mechanics
December 20, 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Satellite to Measure Rain From Space, Outsmart Your Weatherman Rain precipitation is difficult to predict, so scientists are using satellites to improve predictions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007
John Keller |
The ultimate in weather forecasting The secret to accurate and timely weather forecasting lies in getting the most sensors out in the field as possible. |
Home Theater
August 2002
Darryl Wilkinson |
In Tune with Nature Developing an outdoor home-theater system |
Fast Company
February 2014
J.J. McCorvey |
The Future of Forecasting WeatherSignal is an app that hacks the growing number of sensors that exist in Android phones to crowdsource information. This could point to a new form of weather-data collection. |
Food Processing
July 2008 |
Rollout: Best New Products of July 2008 It's hot outside, but these cool new products don't know the difference. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2013
Jean Kumagai |
Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather. |
Geotimes
February 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Creating a Formula for the Northern Lights A new formula could help researchers predict space weather events, which can affect electronic and communication systems. |
Chemistry World
August 8, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
A Solar Torch to Fit in Your Back Pocket A solar powered torch the size of a credit card has been developed by a team of scientists from Denmark, the Netherlands and the US. |
U.S. CPSC
February 18, 2010 |
GE Infrastructure Sensing Recalls Commercial CO2 and Temperature Sensors Due to Fire Hazard The CO2 and temperature sensors can overheat, posing a fire hazard. |
Home Toys
December 2002
David Steele |
Driveway And Entry Annunciators For Home Automation Driveway and entry annunciators have been around for many years. To add them to your home automation and security system can add a whole new meaning to convenience. They can provide you not only with being alerted when a visitor approaches, but also turn on lights for safety and convenience. |
AskMen.com
Terry Baldwin |
Top 10: Extreme Weather Destinations If your time off isn't complete without cheating death or at least talking tough from the relative safety of your barstool, here are 10 of the most extreme places on the globe. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
Brian Betts |
Smart Sensors A single moment of human error can make a sensor and all the data it gathers worse than worthless. A new standard for analog sensors could save lives and money. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Amanda Griscom Little |
Olive Drab Goes Green: The Military Deploys Solar, Wind, and Biomass Power In December, the Department of Defense will complete nation's largest 15-megawatt solar installation. |
Fast Company
April 2010
Damian Joseph |
What's Next: Solar Flares In February, NASA launched a satellite to measure solar activity. The goal: to one day predict the solar system's weather. |
Wired
December 2003
Martha Baer |
The Ultimate on-the-fly Network How a flock of reclusive seabirds became pioneers of pervasive computing. A case study from the sensor net frontier. |
Geotimes
January 2005
Sara Pratt |
El Nino Drives Rainfall For the first time, scientists have been able to quantify the causes of year-to-year variability in global rainfall. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
Home Technology Integration The objective of this article is to provide you with a primer regarding the issues that must be considered when contemplating the installation of a Home Automation System. |
Fast Company
December 2000
Chuck Salter |
Weathering the Storm Weather.com is one of the Web's most unlikely success stories. It has parlayed its loyal following and its philosophical take on the weather into a site that is on course to attract 3 billion page views this year... |
InternetNews
May 25, 2007
David Needle |
The Sun's For Mobile Phones Motorola patent could lead to cell phones powered by solar energy. |
