Installation and Testing

Installation of the USB Kitty is fairly easy, just plug it in and install the software from the included CD.

After that you just need to click the USB Kitty icon on your desktop and up pops the interface. The interface isn’t labeled, but the little toys you see are actually the clickable items that allow you to change things about your Kitty.

All the sounds are configurable using either the included sound files or any of your own.

USB Kitty includes 10 cat songs, eight sound effects for guard mode, and nine sounds effect for normal mode.

Clicking on the little red box with the cats eyes in it is for enabling the guard mode of your USB Kitty.

There is also a schedule reminder so you can have the USB Kitty notify you of meetings, appointments etc.

The USB Kitty can be personalized with information like its name, gender, birthday, where it was born and even its hobbies… so you can truly add a personal touch to your USB Kitty and make it just like your pet cat.

Ok, I’m sure your wondering how it works, well it doesn’t work that great actually, the software appears to be a bit buggy actually. I had it lock up on me many times, I had to close and restart the application actually to get it to work again. When it works it does work fairly well, although the sensors are not that sensitive actually, in the next section I have some videos for you, and one of them is the sensor, you’ll see where it isn’t that sensitive to my hand motion.

The whole thing is a bit weird actually, while the software is running everything you do like hitting the ‘enter’ key makes the cat meow, and it can be a bit annoying, it even has sound for pressing the delete key, start, end, and other keys as well. The sounds can be turned off if need be, or reconfigured to something else you might like it to be, or you can just turn them off using the configurations menu for the sounds. The cats head also moves if you play music as well, and when you turn the computer on and off.

Well continue you on to check out the three movies of the USB Kitty in action…