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 ...

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 ...

It looks amazing.

Originally done through Kickstarter, Vaavud is a company in Denmark that has created an affordable, simple wind meter that plugs directly into your device’s headphone jack. The device itself contains ...

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 ...

If you’re into activities such as windsurfing, sailing or kite-flying, then you’re going to want to know where and how hard the wind is blowing. While weather reports may give average wind speeds for ...

I am a mild-mannered chemistry teacher most of the year but for two weeks out of every year I visit the Great Plains in search of the most intense weather Mother Nature can throw at us. I have been ...

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 ...

Resides In: West Des Moines, Iowa Background Gil Gullickson grew up on a Langford, South Dakota, century farm that he today owns. In 2005, Gil joined Successful Farming to cover agronomy and ...

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 ...