Oooh, that is so cool! We could track temp/dewpoint spread... number of operations taking place at a nearby airport, ceiling heights... what other useful info could we track with these toys :-) Price of Jet-A? eeew, no thanks ;-)
Oh man! The Pilot's Photo Frame. On the desk next to your computer, a photograph of your favorite aircraft. Around the frame are lovely color spots indicating weather and activity levels at your home base. One corner has a red/green indicator showing whether you're due for annual (red) or in maintenance (red) or they're done with your aircraft (green). For persons not in standard office setups, a key fob with configurable light splotches would work.
I'd also create a Day Trader Light Pillar with, say, eight sections. Each can reflect the price trend or the level of trading activity of a particular stock, configurable by the end user, of course.
Exactly you've got the idea I was thinking! We could combine all the various factors in to determining the likelyhood or necessity of flight. Aircraft availability, checking account level, wind, ceiling, weather forecast, stress level, time of day, currency requirements (day, night, pax, IFR) length of time since last flight etc... then at the end it would just combine everything and give you a rating so you knew when you absolutely just had to drop everything and fly.
As happened to me last night... I was just sitting at work minding my own business and... I don't know how it happened, but next thing I knew I was eating a candy bar at South Lake Tahoe. Wierd the things that happen to pilots :-) Even more amazing how just an hour later I was eating another candy bar, but back at KWVI... weird. My glowing aviation frame would surely have tipped me off to such an event approaching.
Or more importantly that the restaurant was CLOSED on Mondays, no candy bars, and the restrooms weren't even open! I'm just glad there were no cameras mounted outside there... *blush*
I shall be better prepared and only arrive at an airport that has an operating $100 burger stand :-)
Except that these *are* a couple of years old - the original dot-com-bubble versions ran off a pager network, and you hit the web page at the service to configure them, so all they needed was power, and could monitor your stocks in a more soothing way than pounding on reload all the time. There are new versions that are USB and you can control them more directly - brookstone and thinkgeek have them, I think.
(I've always found them dreadfully pricey for what they do - a PIC chip and a bank of new-style r-g-b color LEDs and you're up to maybe $15 in parts... Pretty, though...)
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I'd also create a Day Trader Light Pillar with, say, eight sections. Each can reflect the price trend or the level of trading activity of a particular stock, configurable by the end user, of course.
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As happened to me last night... I was just sitting at work minding my own business and... I don't know how it happened, but next thing I knew I was eating a candy bar at South Lake Tahoe. Wierd the things that happen to pilots :-) Even more amazing how just an hour later I was eating another candy bar, but back at KWVI... weird. My glowing aviation frame would surely have tipped me off to such an event approaching.
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I shall be better prepared and only arrive at an airport that has an operating $100 burger stand :-)
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Hopefully not.
I think I'm very glad that the glowing eggs and the Furby craze are separated by a nice barrier of time, a couple years thick.
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(I've always found them dreadfully pricey for what they do - a PIC chip and a bank of new-style r-g-b color LEDs and you're up to maybe $15 in parts... Pretty, though...)
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No, wait, that's not a promise... :-)
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And, yes, I want one of those, too.
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