The article actually states that it can record the temperature from _between_ every second _to_ 12 whole hours, not just every second for 12 whole hours. A bit redundant but still just as useless considering it must stay plugged into your computer, where the temperature is more readily available via the internet.
not to mention if you have a an old old overheating beast of a laptop like m the readings would not be representative of the whole area/room. but the probe could be useful...
The "every second to 12 hours" sounds more like the interval time between data points. It can take a temperature reading every second or every 4 hours, 12 minutes, and 19 seconds, if that's what you wanted, up to a maximum 12 hour interval (two readings a day). I wonder about memory or maximum possible number of data points. Also, internet won't tell you the internal room temperature.
Yea its useless unless you actually have an imagination.
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.
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The article actually states that it can record the temperature from _between_ every second _to_ 12 whole hours, not just every second for 12 whole hours. A bit redundant but still just as useless considering it must stay plugged into your computer, where the temperature is more readily available via the internet.
not to mention if you have a an old old overheating beast of a laptop like m the readings would not be representative of the whole area/room. but the probe could be useful...
The "every second to 12 hours" sounds more like the interval time between data points. It can take a temperature reading every second or every 4 hours, 12 minutes, and 19 seconds, if that's what you wanted, up to a maximum 12 hour interval (two readings a day). I wonder about memory or maximum possible number of data points. Also, internet won't tell you the internal room temperature.
Yea its useless unless you actually have an imagination.
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.