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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Review of Oregon Scientific DP 200

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...

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Review of Oregon Scientific DS 9300

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...

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Review of Oregon Scientific MP100 128 MB

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

bbc.co.uk/weather

Advantages: Very informative site from the Beeb
Disadvantages: None

...The BBC?s weather site?now there?s an interesting thing to review?? Surely it?s just a page with an up-to-date weather map on it?and perhaps an outlook for the next few days? Well, yes you?d be right. But it does have more to it than that? The light blue homepage does show a satellite image of the British Isles, with various cities pinpointed on the map to help with those who don?t know where London is?oh dear?but obviously they?re just for reference points. As I type, there seems to be an awful lot of rain heading our way. Those in Ireland are currently getting soaked! There is a slider along the bottom of the map which you can manually move to see what will happen to the weather over the course of the next few days. It could be a wet one looking at this! You can change the map to a temperature map, but at this time of year...

carl.mcqueen 12.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of news.bbc.co.uk/weather/

An Organiser By Any Other Name

Advantages: Looks a lot dearer than it is. Links to PC for proper typing
Disadvantages: Currency converter limited to ?.

...assistants, and some even sprouted ?proper? keyboards, albeit rather small, like the Psion range. Of course these also had pretensions to be a PC, with built in word processing and spreadsheet facilities. For a while, I had one of these, never made any use of the new features, and then lost interest when it started going faulty. If I?m honest, what I?ve been looking for all along is an electronic address book that can be input to from a PC. The Oregon Scientific PDA188 is exactly what I?ve been looking for. At £20, it is DEFINITELY what I?ve been looking for! You can also buy it packaged by Boots at the moment for the same price. So what do you get for your £20? - 256K of memory* touch-screen organiser, with Telephone Number\Address Book, Scheduler, Memo Pad, International Time\Alarm Clock, Calendar, Calculator and Currency Converter...

BNibbles 05.11.2002 (08.11.2002) · Read review
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Reading about the weather

Advantages: A super book for v young children
Disadvantages: none

...What's the weather postman Pat? Another book I bought from the charity shop for my grandchildren, it was 50p the R R P is not on the book but I gues ots between £3 and £6 This book was first published in 2000. Everyone must know postman pat the first viewing of the animated television series was shown on the BBC in 1981. Postman Pat has been popular ever since.' The book Postman Pat what's the weather like is a board book suitable for a toddler. We all talk about the weather and postman Pat is no exception. We open the book and Postman pat is asked what's the weather like, a tree has fallen over, his hat has blown off so Postman pat decides it is windy. The next page asks tom and Katy what the weather is like. They tell us some of the things they have done and say so it must be snowing. Next we ask Jess what the weather...

mumsymary 03.02.2007 (01.03.2007) · Read review
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Review of Postman Pat: What's the Weather Like?

The weather man

Advantages: loads of funny parts that will have you laughing for ages afterwards
Disadvantages: story line sounds better than it is and film gets a bit silly in places

...The weather man is a great comedy from the director of Pirates of the Caribbean (Gore Verbinski). Rated a 15+ due to strong language, sex and sexual references. One disk containing the film and special features. The film is approximately 97 minutes long. I found this film for only three pound in the bargain bin at blockbusters but have seen it priced at around the same price on eBay and Amazon. The cast then: Nicolas cage -staring in such films as the rock, con air, gone in 60 seconds, face off and many more. He play's the man character David Spritzel shortened to Dave Spritz for hes weather show on TV. Michael Caine - staring in films such as The Italian job (original), Austin power gold member, the dark night (batman) and many more. He plays Robert Spritzel a famous writer who becomes ill during the film. Gemmenne de la...

froggytori 06.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Weather Man (DVD)

Keeping dry

Advantages: Keeps you dry on rides
Disadvantages: Quite thin

...of the arms can be avoided by pulling the arms into the body part. Once the hood is on, it's just a case of pulling the thing down over yourself. They are quite long, because I'm about 5' 5" and the poncho came past my knees- get on the ride and tuck knees under yourself, and wetness can be minimised. The ponchos are also available in child size, but if giving them to children remember that they are plastic and adult supervision is required. PRICE AND AVAILABILITY These cost £2 from vending machines, located close to wet rides! I'm quite sure they will be sold in other amusement parks but mine was bought in legoland. OTHER PRODUCTS The company seems to specialise in outdoor products and appears to sell wholesale. Other products include: Rain Brolly Sun wipes Fresh wipes MADE BY? Address: Weather Station, P...

danielalong 09.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Emergency Raingear Weather Station Rain Poncho

21 hours a day

Advantages: Communicate, for free, in any condition
Disadvantages: Instruction's bill not very user friendly

...kind of matter, my choice fall to the Oregon Scientific Atlanta PMR TP-329, its specifications (skills) going over the avarage standards. It is stupendous, having a trip with friends with several cars and getting in touch each other with these fabulous devices. Even along the ski run, or inside supermarkets, for a walk on the mountain, every time you could surely find the usefulness of these radios.. Personally, me and my wife, often use them when we go at the shopping mall to get in touch each other: she fills the shopping chart while I search specific produces that interest me.. lol.. The quality of the loudspeacker is wonderful. With a dimension and look of a bar soap, this little and cute station could find place in any pocket. Batteries, 3 x AAA and 700mAh each, rechargeable and supplied, last 21 hours. Inside their lodging...

ik2xnw- 11.02.2006 (12.02.2006) · Read review
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