(Credit: Troika)
Never mind today's weather forecast. What were conditions like yesterday? A 16-foot sculpture now on display in London's Hoxton Square broadcasts the temperatures from a day before.
Not necessarily useful information when deciding whether to pack an umbrella. Instead, The Weather Yesterday "celebrates the weather as a predominant topic of discussion in British culture while offering a spin on the urgency with which we are using our mobile devices, forecasting, and interactive technology," says Troika, the London design studio that created the piece.
LED strips wait to be attached to the sculpture. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Troika)
The playful installation, on exhibit through September 9, employs LEDs, aluminum, and custom electronics to display classic climate icons like sun, clouds, and rain and shifting numerical temperatures that reflect conditions exactly as they were at the same time at any given moment the previous day.
Data updates automatically using custom-made software and a wireless connection.
Commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects for the London Festival of Architecture, Th... [Read more]
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