First brought to public light during the WeatherBug API contest, Cranial Tap Inc. has officially released their latest concept into the wilds of the virtual world known as Second Life.

Enter the WeatherBug powered weather panel for Second Life!

The motivation for Cranial Tap to develop a weather panel was pretty straight forward.

Stream accurate, real-world weather data into the Second Life virtual world in such a way that is both functional and fun for the typical Second Life user.

Using the WeatherBug API, Cranial Tap was able to create simple to use virtual weather panel for use in Second Life virtual home or business locations. The panel’s provided weather data includes the current temperature, high & low temp, a dynamic thermometer that adjusts with the changing temperature for any given user, in addition to an animated wind speed gauge.

The WeatherBug weather panel can be seen demonstrated above, in the YouTube video. However to truly understand just how powerful the driving technology is from both WeatherBug and Cranial Tap, one must actually stop by Cranial Tap’s virtual offices to give it a test drive for themselves. Those of you with Second Life already installed on their PC or Mac can simply “teleport” on over to Cranial Tap headquarters via this link provided.

And of course, if you have an application idea using just about any sort of popular programming language you can think of, consider taking a serious look at the WeatherBug API. You would be amazed at just how flexible it is to work with!