Ambient displays translate online information into a simple presentation that’s meant to be glanceable, easy to understand, and non-intrusive. I’ve always appreciate artistic ambient displays, like Nancy Patterson’s Stock Market Skirt and Eric Paulos’s Limelight. Ken Kawamoto’s Tempescope appears to be another wonderful example. It’s a weather display in the form of a transparent box that generates the predicted weather conditions inside. For example, when the forecast is rain, a tiny rain storm occurs in the Tempescope. It can even form “clouds” and create a “lightning” storm through flashing LEDs. Kawamoto created an open source version of the Tempescope so you can make your own, or get one through the Indiegogo campaign launching this week!
