A small example on how the smartphone revolution is reshaping the world. Meteo stations used to be big, and stationary.

Now with an external accessory a smartphone can be turned on a portable meteo station. The Shaka accessory measures the wind speed, direction, temperature. With additional sensors such as barometric pressure sensor and a humidity sensor it could basically replace the old meteo stations.

Probably it won’t have the accurate sensors that traditional meteo stations have, but these things improve all the time. The smartphone powered meteo station has the ability to have the location through GPS coordinates, and the possibility to transmit data thanks to the cellular network. And with data collected from different devices (crowdsourcing), your Android Phone Could Help Scientists Predict Your Weather.

The future is here. For a list of smartphone accessories, take a look at the page Mobile and Sensors in this blog.