I’ve been looking at getting one of these a Davis Vantage Pro weather station. The cool thing is you can add a soil moisture sensor and pin down exactly what the moisture situation is. The other cool thing is you can add the station to Weather Underground.

I’m pretty blown away by what they run $$$ though. I need to spend $1k to monitor my lawn like I need a hole in the head.

Color me impressed. (Sorry for the craptastic pictures, the morning light was coming into my kitchen window).

Here are the requisite un-boxing pictures. I wouldn’t be a blogger without ‘em.

First thing that struck me was how small it actually is. For whatever reason, looking at pictures online I thought it was going to be pretty big. The whole thing is basically smaller than my palm:

From some of what I had read on it, I expected it to come pre-registered to my Amazon account and I expected my books to load as soon as I turned it on. I was a little disappointed, but it gave me a chance to try out the keyboard to put in my email and password. The keyboard is actually great. By no means is it a desktop keyboard, but it beats a Treo or a Sidekick any day. Right off the bat I was able to easily type my info in. By the time I hit enter and went back to the home screen, the books I had purchased were available on the Kindle. Now that is magic.

The last thing is the screen. I think its absolutely fantastic. You can read it at any angle, and it looks just like paper. Yes the milliseconds while it changes pages are annoying, but its really not that bad. Definitely not a deal breaker by any means.

I’ll update this post if anyone has any specific questions.