1. A hand-held device having a housing and a processor disposed within said housing, and comprising: a port defined in said housing; a temperature sensing element having a field of view (FOV) disposed in said port and operable to generate one or more signals in response to the temperature of an object within the FOV; a sensible output; and software executed by the processor to operable to convert the one or more signals form said temperature sensing element into a signal on said sensible output indicative of the sensed temperature.