Motorola Xoom to have a barometer

Posted in Motorola by Conner Flynn on January 10th, 2011

Motorola’s Xoom made a splash at CES and of course it has a lot of potential. What it also has, according to Moto’s developer page, is a barometer included, along with an accelerometer, magnetometer, ambient light sensor and gyroscope.

A barometer? Well, older humans do like to watch the weather channel. At least one flagship tablet will be compatible with Android 2.3′s barometer support for all you weather geeks.

Weather Forecasting watch from Oregon Scientific

Posted in Watches by Conner Flynn on June 24th, 2008

Weather Forecasting watch from Oregon Scientific
The Meteo Watch from Oregon Scientific will have the weather on your wrist whenever you need it. Unlike others, it doesn’t download weather from the air-waves, instead, it measures barometric pressure trends. This gives it a fairly accurate forecast for 12 to 24 hours in the future. And it’s not totally ugly either.

It’s got a reverse LCD display that displays one of 4 icons that include sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy and rainy. It also has a stopwatch function that goes up to 60 hours should you need one. Aside from that, there’s the typical calendar, alarm, and backlight, plus it’s water resistant up to 30 meters. You can get one for $69.99.