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Chumby Internet Appliance alarm clock reviewed

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 15th 2007 1 Comment

I’m not quite sure how she engineered it – feminine wiles, I’ll bet – but Julie Strietelmeier over at The Gadgeteer managed to get onto the very, very exclusive list of pre-release buyers of the endearing Chumby alarm-clock-cum-web-appliance, and she’s been busy reviewing the little fella.  In case you’ve forgotten, the Chumby is a compact touchscreen and Freescale processor with a couple of USB ports and a WiFi ‘g’ connection; in its most basic mode it works as an alarm clock, but delve deeper and you can use it for all sorts of real-time information.  Think something like Ambient Devices range of wireless info-devices, only using WiFi.

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Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock will make you go deaf

By James Allan Brady on Sunday, Oct 14th 2007 1 Comment

You get roughly a minute and a half before you start losing some of your hearing, but at 113 decibels, if you don’t wake up before a minute and a half, you must be deaf already or dead. You can set the volume, but it maxes out at 113 decibels.

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There is also a thing to vibrate the bed, I would assume you’d place the item beneath the mattress. Hopefully, for your neighbors sake, you can use that combination and wake up with a lower volume setting than 113 decibels.

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