Oregon Scientific DP-200

Advantages: Motion sensor, Radio controlled, Bright projection
Disadvantages: Cost £85 - £100, Radio signal dependant on weather

...I have been using a previous Oregon Scientific projection clock for the past couple of years, and I have been very pleased with it. I decided to get this model because one of the main points is that the projection is strong enough to be seen in daylight. Even on a really bright day, it is still possible to see the time on the ceiling or wall, unlike previous models. As with previous models, it has the radio controlled time feature, meaning that it is always up to date, and requires no manual changes. Although it is possible to turn the radio signal receiver off, and do it manually. This may have to be done if you are using it in an area of weak or no signal. With this clock, it has a switch so that it can be taken anywhere in Europe, and it should continue to work. The clock also came with an outdoor temperature sensor which...

bindie 29.07.2008 · Read review
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Oregon Scientific DS9300 - Get what you pay for

Advantages: Price, Extras
Disadvantages: Performance, Robustness

...My Experience? I've had the Oregon Scientific digital camera for around 2 years now, and overall I have been disappointed. However I have a little relief in the fact that I paid very little for it through a TV bidding channel, Bid-up TV, I recall that it was about £100 along with an array of free image editing and gallery software. Ever since I received the camera it has gone down hill consistently. I know others have had good experiences with this camera, so it would appear to be on an individual basis, but do take heed. Also as other owners have reported the camera will often freeze on random occasions. To resolve, remove the batteries and replace them, this usually makes the camera work again. Even the slightest little tap will crash the camera and it will turn off. Schematics? The camera has a very simple, conventional...

liam_coops 22.02.2006 · Read review
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The Oregon Scientific mp3 player. orange. 128 MB

Advantages: Very Handy in size,self-charge ,compact, very discreet, and quite cool looking. simplicity at its finest.
Disadvantages: delicate, could be potentially easily broken without the right amount of care.

...feature, I was amazed. This Mp3 Player (the Oregon scientific) has different sound settings, for example, the ''Rock'' setting??this one has a more significant bassy theme to it. Where as the ''classical'' setting had more of an easy-listening theme going on. You can choose which you prefer to suits your tastes from around three or four of these different settings. Rock, Blues, Pop, Classical and Jazz. To navigate this mp3 player is very simple. There is a cursor to the left of the main screen and if you press it down in the middle, your menu appears. You can easily navigate from there flicking the cursor left, right, up or down to choose what your looking for switching between tracks and even deleting a few along the way. You can set it to ''Random'' or you can select tracks to put into a list. Another amazing feature is that...

TommyRooney1987 27.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific MP100 128 MB

A girl can get lost in a Barbie world

Advantages: A PRETTY DOLL
Disadvantages: REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THIS

...A girl can get lost in a Barbie world. As a child I never had Sindy or Barbie dolls in fact I did only have 2 dolls I did not really like dolls I preferred to climb trees damn ditches, make dens. I am sure you all know what a Barbie doll is, but for those of you that do not, here goes. In the 1950's Ruth Handler noticed her daughter Barbie playing with paper dolls she had cut out the dolls were Adult. So Ruth created the fashion doll Barbie. Mattel produce the plastic doll. In 1961 Barbie was introduced to Britain from the U.S The Barbie doll is slim has gorgeous hair big bosoms everything a girl wants to be.She is just under 12 inches/30 cm tall Barbie has everything a girl wants. She has a sports car and a beach buggy; she has a horse, which has a musical stable. Barbie even has 2 carriages one with a horse one a unicorn...

mumsymary 29.10.2003 (14.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of Barbie

Why you shouldn't cut Barbie's Hair

Advantages: Anyone can enjoy her, lots of choice
Disadvantages: Hard to find, Stupid Shoes always fall off and get lost

...When I was six Santa brought me the best Christmas present ever. A Barbie house that was bigger than me and had a working lift. It was awesome. My mum was quite angry with Santa as she was trying to introduce the joys of Sindy to her daughter. Santa knew better. Who wants Sindy and her boring boyfriend Paul, Ken was far more handsome! Nearly 17 years later, I no longer have my Barbie house, but I am still a Barbie Girl at heart. I don?t chew their shoes or plait their hair anymore either since many of them are in a glass display cabinet. See, Barbie is for girls of all ages, only as the girl gets older, the more expensive the Barbies become. I am talking about collectable Barbies of course, the ones that my young cousins stare wistfully at every time they visit. The ones that are made of porcelain and have underwear and real...

emmaewok 30.01.2005 (31.01.2005) · Read review
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Alarmingly Good!

Advantages: Alarm gets me out of bed every morning
Disadvantages: Build quality and design don't look the best.

...Of all the things I expected when I upgraded my mobile phone, the need to buy a new alarm clock wasn't among them. Unfortunately, for all the things my new phone does bigger and better than the old one, the alarm on the Nokia was far better than the one on the Sony Ericsson. I'll never know whether I slept through the alarm or inadvertently turned it off when I was trying to set it, but within a few days of having changed my mobile phone, the new one failed to wake me up, which was something the alarm on the old one never did. I decided on the Oregon Scientific projection alarm clock largely because my flatmate had one and it looked pretty funky with the time displayed on the bedroom ceiling. I'm not normally one for fancy gadgets, but that did seem like a pretty cool feature. In addition, she sleeps quite deeply, as do I...

Soho_Black 19.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Oregon Scientific RM 313 P

Clean up Barbie

Advantages: Does what it says
Disadvantages: none really

...I do not often throw my kids birthday parties, as their birthdays fall just after Christmas, and I have to thrown a party for 2 with me having twins loll. This year I thought I would spoil then and have a party. As my daughter loves Barbie and my son loves Spiderman, I had to have 2 separate tables and 2 lots of Napkins, plates, cups etc, to cater for them both. If I did not get Barbie my daughter would have been upset, so off I went on a journey to try and find everything Barbie, and my was it hard work. I found these Barbie napkins it was the mermaidia ones. They came in a pack of 16, which was more than enough, I even have some left for the next time she has a party loll. I paid £3.99 for these pack of 16, expensive I know but it was a last minute thing, and I think I could have got them cheaper off Ebay, but I did not have time...

kineticspade 15.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Barbie Napkins

come on Barbie, let's go party

Advantages: barbie rocks
Disadvantages: none - barbie rocks

...'I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.' And for once Aqua had a valid point to make as Barbie's sphere of influence increases and world wide domination seems inevitable. Admittedly I haven't tried to hinder this expansion with my weekly purchases of infinite Barbie fantasy ball Chuppa Chupps lollies. But please don't blame my obsession with all things pink for the boundless merchandise emporium that accompanies this pink clad icon. Maybe I'm making up for the fact that when I was a child, I preferred to take responsibility for an anatomical disaster of a doll with a bladder problem worse than mine after a saturday night down the pub. Tiny Tears may have taught me how to change a nappy but it didn't supply the fashion advice and life experience that comes as standard with a Barbie doll. Designed in 1959, Mattel have over 40...

nicolemorgan 08.04.2003 · Read review
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Review of Barbie

CYNICAL OP - Hijacker Barbie, Anthrax Not Included

Advantages: give endless pleasure to children all over, including mine
Disadvantages: give endless chance for comic potential for all critics, including me

...Barbie – the role model of little girls for decades. Yes, your little girl can also aspire to be like Barbie. So who is Barbie? How can you be like her? Well, all you need is a perfectly sculptured face, big boobs, a minuscule waist that hardly doesn’t exist, long legs that would suit an Olympic champion high jumper and beautifully conditioned long blonde hair. Simple, eh? Thankfully, for those non-whites amongst us, Barbie comes in different skin tones too. So a black, Asian or oriental Barbie is completely different - a perfectly sculptured face, big boobs, a minuscule waist that hardly doesn’t exist, long legs that would suit an Olympic champion high jumper and beautifully conditioned long black hair. Unfortunately, non-white Barbie gets saddled with an embarrassing Disney-esque name like Mulan or Pocahontas...

KarenUK 04.11.2001 · Read review
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Review of Barbie

Barbie beats all

Advantages: Provides hours of virtual life fun
Disadvantages: Can be costly

...Having a 3 and a half-year-old daughter it goes without saying that the word Barbie is not an unknown term in our house. I would say that for about a year now my daughter has happily played with her miniature friend, who soon multiplied into 2, 3 and now I can say that she is the extremely proud owner of a bunch of them including 2 Shelly’s and various accessories ranging from clothes, hair bits’n’bobs to the simply must have for all women (even Barbie!) shoes. Unbeknown to my daughter at this stage, Father Christmas has a Ken and yet another Shelly (oh no please no more screaming babies!) lined up, and to keep up with the women, he too has a small selection of shoes to boot, which didn’t break the bank. Ken cost £3.99 and the shoes £1.99. Luckily for me I managed to purchase my daughter’s Barbie...

GraingerN 22.08.2001 · Read review
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