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Today’s Totally Cool Tech: Wireless USB Weather Station - $197 available from Maplin & USB over Network – $130 – $300+ by Fabula Tech

Well, here comes a wireless USB weather station that can tell you almost everything that you need to know about the weather, such as current atmospheric conditions including; temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and precipitation amounts and recording historical patterns.

• Touch LCD screen Weather Forecaster and alarm
• Indoor / outdoor temperature (C or F)
• Wind speed and direction (mph or kph)
• Self emptying rain gauge (mm or inches)
• Indoor / outdoor humidity
• Barometric pressure with trends
• ”Easyweather” software included to link to PC via USB
• Historical data storage and display
• LCD panel wall mounts or desk mounts
• Batteries last over 12 months
• Operates on 5 x AA batteries (sold separately)

Usually, when you need to use any USB device (like scanner, flash-memory, etc) you plug it into USB port of your computer. Have you ever had the need to scan something but the scanner is hooked to your desktop and you are on your laptop? Or what if someone else needs to use the same USB device on the computer its hooked into?