8th March 2006, 6:35 PM
Unless the microphone itself has some sort of mechanism for determining wind speed, one of your points isn't entirely accurate. The microphone on the DS does not have that physical capability. When you blow on it, all it seems to be doing is hearing the noise of you blowing on it. It is hard to determine angle of attack or speed based on the sound of the wind on a single microphone.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)