Radio Controlled Clocks
Time to be Smart
Don’t be one of the chronologically challenged when the clocks go
back… Get a radio-controlled clock from Oregon Scientific.
On the weekend of 26th/27th October, British Summer Time ends and the
clocks go back. Or is it forward? No, no, it’s definitely back (spring
forward, fall back, remember), which means that when you go to bed on
the Saturday you’ll need to put your watch and your alarm clock –
and all the other clocks in your house, for that matter – back one
hour. Otherwise, when you wake up on Sunday morning you’ll think
it’s ten o’clock when actually it’s only nine, and you’ll
feel a right lemon turning up to football training or church or whatever
an hour before everybody else.
Plus you’ll be feeling grumpy because you’ve had one hour’s less sleep than normal. No, that’s wrong, you’ll have had an extra hour’s sleep. Unless, of course, you put your clock forward by mistake, or forgot to alter it at all. Either way you’re definitely going to be late. Or early.
Confused? Wouldn’t it be so much simpler if your alarm clock regulated itself automatically, switching smoothly back while you slept? Well, it will do just that, if it happens to be one of the fantastic new range of radio controlled clocks from Oregon Scientific.
Clever Clocks
Oregon Scientific are well known throughout the world as makers of stylish
and highly-desirable consumer electronic products. As well as their state-of-the-art
clocks, they also manufacture digital cameras, heart monitors, weather
stations and many other cool and clever gadgets. The new AM/FM Radio Projection
Clock (RRM968P, rrp £59.99) is very cool and very clever.
Not only is it sleek enough and stylish enough to grace the best bedside table…
Not only is it kept perfectly in time from Rugby, UK – by a radio signal broadcast from an official atomic clock, rendering it super-accurate – to one millionth of a second a year, to be precise – and, of course, switching it back an hour when BST ends… Not only does it incorporate a great-sounding digital tuner with 16 station preset memory… But also, the really cool and clever thing about the RRM968P is that it actually projects the time and local temperature onto the wall or ceiling of a darkened bedroom.
There’s also the option of continuous, 24/7 time and temperature projection, should you desire it. No more waking up in the small hours, knocking over the cold cup of coffee at your bedside as you reach for the alarm clock. No more fumbling around in the dark for the glasses you forgot you left in the bathroom. All you have to do is open your eyes, and bingo!, there’s the time, right there in front of you, large as life. How cool is that?
The RRM968P has a manual image focus and rotation facility, enabling you to set it up so that the projected image is pin-sharp at any angle. It also has a 2-minute crescendo alarm to ease you into the day, plus an 8-minute snooze function. The kids’ll love it – they’ll be clamouring to go to bed – and your partner will love it too, now that he or she will no longer be disturbed when you want to check the time.
All the time in the world …
Okay, so you’ve managed to put your clock back successfully, you’re
back from football training and you’re planning on giving your sister
a call in Washington DC to wish her happy birthday. Will she be up yet?
You know Washington’s on the East Coast of America, so that makes
it five hours behind the UK, only with the clocks going back it’s
now only four hours. Or is that six? But wait a minute, they have Daylight
Saving in the States, and you’re pretty sure that ended yesterday
too, so it is still five hours. Isn’t it?
No problem, you simply turn to your Oregon Scientific World Time Travel Clock (RM932). You know (because it’s radio-controlled) that it’s telling you the correct time here in Britain. You also know that it’s telling you the correct time in Washington DC, because that’s the city you happen to have pre-selected on the dual time display.
But it could just as easily be Los Angeles, or Moscow, or Kuala Lumpur, because with the RM932’s user-friendly roller dial, scrolling through to the world city of your choice is a piece of cake. And the price is attractive too – just £24.99 rrp.
Supposing you decide to pay your sister a surprise visit? Oregon Scientific has just the clock for you. Their Multi-Band Radio Controlled Travel Clock (RMB383 rrp £34.99) comes with a set of clip on/off receivers covering the UK, most of Europe, plus the USA and Japan. Slip this little gem into your luggage and you can be sure you’ll be on time, wherever you are. Simply snap on the correct receiver for the country you’re visiting and you’re in business.
The ultimate timepiece
Oregon Scientific is just as famous for its accurate and good-looking
home barometric equipment as for its radio controlled projection clocks.
With the Barometer Projection Clock (BAR338P rrp £69.99) they’ve
gone the whole hog and combined the two – and thrown in a few other
useful features for good measure.
The BAR338P employs the same clever projection technology as the Radio Projection Clock (manual image focusing, 180º rotation etc.). However, instead of projecting the time and local (ie room) temperature, it projects the time plus a temperature reading taken from a remote sensor. This cable-free sensor (which measures fluctuations in temperature from -20º C to +60º C) can be placed anywhere within a 30 metre range of the base unit – indoors or out. Thus with the BAR338P you can be sure, for example, that the baby’s room isn’t too hot or too cold; alternatively, you can lie snuggled up in the duvet while you watch the temperature outside plummet to below freezing.
The built-in barometer on this, the ultimate timepiece also displays a clear and accurate weather forecast in the form of easy-to read symbols. Plus it’s an alarm clock – radio controlled, naturally. Plus it incorporates a calendar in five languages. Plus it looks fabulous.
Accessorise your home with any of the brilliant clocks in Oregon Scientific’s fantastic radio controlled range and you can be sure of three things: you’ll be in the vanguard of style; you’ll always be on time – and you’ll never again need to put your clocks back. Or forward.