http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/ Engadget Comments for USB indoor / outdoor thermometer: for when walking outside is just too hard http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/
Heck, even if it was only capable of telling you the temperature outside, for $20 I'd buy it just to see the the temperature outside my house plotted/graphed over a long period of time. That alone would be worth the $20.]]>Aug 15th 2008 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 11:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/
Monitoring a server room and displaying the temp on a web page.

Monitoring the temp of chilled storage areas (for food, wine, etc).

Combined with a cheap PC it could be really useful.


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Here's the next post:

"Oh look. It's a gardening shovel. We buy all our produce at safeway/albertsons/lucky/etc, so why the hell would we need any gardening tools. Shovels are totally dumb"]]>Aug 22nd 2008 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 24th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/this thing is much less crappy then it sounds. I already bought 2 ( 1just temp and one temp and humidity)
I use it for Logging purposes in the office, ( we have over 30°C very often) and it works great. the software can even send a email every so often and it has a temp alert when temperature is over a certain value.
it writes .csv tables 1 per hour you can use in excel.
you will have to set the correction factor by comparing with another thermometer.. but otherwise it is cheap and does the job. I paid about 12€ on ebay. it suits my needs just fine. ok not everybody needs to know the air temperature..
but I bet you can do al kinds of stuff with it. pc temperature, other temperature surveillance wherever. of course it is better if the values would trigger some other device or something.( regulation of some sort)]]>Aug 15th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/
Well worth every cent. ]]>Aug 15th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/for the consumer, it doesn't seem very useful aside from science projects and meteorological activities.
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At first glance it would seem very mundane perhaps. A 'mere' thermometer. But it's a sensor, which data could be important to some. I can see this being applied to numerous applications in the business and commercial world as well as the homebrew side. There are many more uses for a thermometer than "I wonder what temperature it is outside so I can dress appropriately."

The only issue I have is that it is not wireless. If it were wireless, that would be really, REALLY cool.]]>Aug 15th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/]]>Aug 15th 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/15/usb-indoor-outdoor-thermometer-for-when-walking-outside-is-ju/Aug 15th 2008 10:53PM