Weather!!!!!!!!!!! I just love this gadget. It may be my favorite gadget of all time - my Kestrel 4000 Pocket Weather Meter Station. Just look at all the stuff this thing does:

• Current, Maximum and Average Wind Speeds
• Air, Water & Snow Temperature
• Wind Chill
• Relative Humidity
• Dewpoint
• Heat Stress Index
• Barometric Pressure
• Altitude Please
• Density Altitude
• Wet Bulb Temperature
• Graph and recall trends
• Customize screens to display user-selected measurements
• Flip-top impeller cover allows use of other functions while protecting the impeller (hard cases available.)
• Automatically store measurements, even when the unit is turned off
• Manually store measurements with the press of a button
• Chart up to 2,000 measurements
• Impeller can be replaced without tools
• Waterproof and floats.

This thing is just so much fun! It runs off two AAA batteries which last forever. Right now, in my home office the temperature is 76.3 degrees and the humidity is 79.2%. This gives me a heat index of 79.5 degrees. In case you are interested the humidity at 2am was 85.2% They have a really neat belt case and I tend to carry this thing around with me everywhere measuring conditions at the movies, my office, the coffee shop, etc. How cold is it, really, in the supermarket frozen food section? Well I can tell you! I got mine direct from the manufacturer, Neilson Kellerman, and their website is here. Trust me, of all the gadgets I've written about, and will write about, none are as much fun as this little guy.  ¶ posted by Paul Biba, Staff Writer @ 6/25/2006 10:25:00 AM