Martin Richards is an amateur meteorologist. For fun, he tracks air pressure, air currents, humidity, wind speeds, and all that other stuff that full-time meteorologists do.

Tracking all of this takes some pretty sophisticated equipment, and Martin has been both building his own weather equipment, and buying it as well. In his backyard he has "a bank of weather instruments" which he uses to "see" the air around him, and predict the weather for himself. "I like predicting the weather," Martin tells us. "I feel like I’m right more often than the guy on TV."

Sometimes, in the process of the everyday work schedule, and family schedule, getting to all that equipment can be complicated. So Martin has help, in the form of the XCam2. "I use the XCam2 to view a bank of weather instrument read-outs from any television in the house," Martin tells us. "That way if I’m in the middle of something, I can still see what’s happening." And Martin is adding another feature very shortly. That feature is XRay Vision. With XRay Vision, he doesn’t have to wait until he’s home to see what the forecast is going to be. He can check on his instruments from work, or from any computer in the world. Of course he won’t know what the weather will be like in whatever corner of the world he may be in, but that doesn’t matter, he will know what it’s going to be like when he gets home.

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