The new version of the 1051 - PhidgetTemperatureSensor is a lot more accurate than the previous model

Users of the previous version of the 1051 have asked us if we could improve on the reliability and accuracy of the product without increasing the selling price; we had a hard look at our previous design and came up with the current version which does address all our users concerns says Chester Fitchett, CEO of Phidgets.

Unlike a lot of our competitor's products that require their users to write some firmware code in order to use their sensor, we are completely Plug and Play says Bernard Rousseau, Director of Marketing. With Phidgets, you plug it in and start using it and when it comes to programming, the user, not us, decides which operating system and which computer language he wants to use, added Rousseau.

Users can program Phidgets using a simple yet powerful and well documented Application Programming Interfade (API) that is supported under Windows (2000, XP, Vista), Windows CE, Mac OS X, and Linux. Users can write programs in Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, C/C++, Flash/Flex, Java, Labview, Matlab, ActionScript 3.0, and Cocoa.

Phidgets also provides programming examples for all its products to help programmers write their own programs.