Archive for April, 2009

You Don’t Need a Weatherman…

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

An iPhone application turns the phone into a wind meter.

An iPhone application turns the phone into a wind meter.


A few weeks ago, I got an email from Rob Diller, who asked, “I was wondering if you have heard of model plane enthusiasts using that Wind Meter Application that iTunes is selling for the iPhone?”

“How could the iPhone detect wind speed?” I wondered, and set off to the iTunes Store to find out more.

In a few moments, I found Wind Meter, a 99-cent application that uses the iPhone microphone to estimate wind speed.

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