Beautiful design: Wood you believe it?

The great British summer has had me in a spin of late. One minute it’s hot and I am walking through town without a care in the world sniffing out the fabulous, pondering a Pims or a G&T…the next….well, I’m a drowned rat with my hair plastered to my head. Oh curse you, for making me look a fool! So how do you predict the weather?

Simple. With a hunk of wood.

And no, I’m not talking about the cast of Hollyoaks. 

Sébastien Wallet, has managed to design a funky gadget that can wake you up, tell the time, predict weather details 12-24 hours ahead, give barometric pressure measurements, indoor temperature and hygrometry information…are you still with me?

It also has a movement sensor built in so to activate it you wave your hand in front of the bit of wood and the display is lit. And here’s the best bit, as a piece of design it’s a corker: ergonomic, tactile, a thing of real beauty. 

So there we have it, buy it here and stop looking out the window in a morning pondering long or short sleeves. Let’s face it, is clearly the most attractive weather diviner since Wincey Willis (did I really just say that??)