While the average person may not care too much about the current wind speed, it’s very important to the likes of windsurfers, kitesurfers, and sailors. Although official monitoring stations do provide ...

You know that the world of smartphone accessories is huge when there are multiple entries in a product category that probably isn't that big. That's the case with wind meters for the iPhone; just last ...

Some of our readers might remember the Vaavud smartphone wind meter that launched over on the Kickstarter website back in April 2013. Now Vaavud is back with a new version that is cable of recording ...

The WeatherFlow Wind Meter and its android and iOS apps not only measures wind speed, it also logs measurements and supports sharing at a very low price. There are many situations in which it’s ...

Across the United States, a sparse network of weather stations are dolling out our daily forecasts. Which means the best estimate of what the weather's doing where you're standing could be measured ...

It is possible to measure the wind speed of 2 to 40 meters per second at anytime anywhere and the direction of the wind within plus or minus 4% by inserting "feathers" in the earphone jack of the ...

It’s always nice to see a Kickstarter project make it through to reality—and this is a neat one. Vaavud, an inexpensive wind meter that was funded on Kickstarter earlier this year, is finally ...

It's always a pleasure to see Kickstarter projects that not only ship on time, but show a brilliant use of the sensors built into every iOS device. In the case of the Vaavud wind meter (US$49.99), the ...

Smartphones have a lot of on-board sensors, but do they really have enough? No way, say a slew of recent hardware startups, of which Danish Vavuud is only the most recent. Vavuud is turning to ...

Researchers from James Cook University in north Queensland are hoping to take advantage of the expected cyclone to learn more about the weather systems. The Cyclone Testing Unit is testing six new ...