101 uses for WinCounter (continued)
(Well...not quite 101 yet, but we're working on it!)
Some of these uses are serious applications and others are a
light-hearted look at the possibilities.
The list continues:
- Add voice prompts to WinCounter and have it play a welcome message to
arriving guests.
- Attach it to a refrigerator door and check up on your eating patterns.
- Set up WinCounter on the door so that it plays a sound saying
"You're late" when your teenager arrives home at 1:30 AM.
- Attach a temperature switch to monitor and report on whenever the
temperature falls below a specified level.
- Attach a remote sensor to your cow to count how many times it has been
abducted by aliens.
- Have a button you press each time you are interrupted during the day.
WinCounter can report on your workflow efficiency.
- Attach it to your bedroom light switch and see how often you are in your room with the light on.
- Connect a microphone with a sound level switch and monitor the times when
the sound level goes over a specified threshold.
- Attach WinCounter to your office door and analyse how often you are
interrupted during the day.
- Set up WinCounter as an alarm to monitor people walking into a 'no
admittance' area.
- Use voice clips as sounds and WinCounter will play a reminder prompt as
you open the refrigerator door.
- Mount WinCounter on your teenager's door to record when he/she emerges
from his/her room in the morning.
- Attach WinCounter to your dog kennel and find out how often your dog
leaves during the night.
- Put a switch on your cat door and check up how often cats come and go.
- With a switch attached to your chair WinCounter can count how many times
you leave your desk.
- Connect a microphone to WinCounter and use it to record how many times
your neighbour's dog barks.
- Use WinCounter to play a dog barking sound in response to every time your neighbour's
dog barks.
- Use WinCounter on a pet shop door and set up the sounds feature to play random animal noises.
- Put a sensor by your bed and monitor how many times you roll over in the
night.
- Add short voice quotes as as a theme to the sounds and have WinCounter
play a different quote each time you walk through a door.
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