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A fridge that's alert for midnight snacks.
When you’ve popped in your fridge alarm, getting peckish in the middle of the night and forgetting to close the door – along with escalating electricity bills – will be a thing of the past. Italian inventor Flavio Dellepiane has designed a 3V battery-powered fridge alarm that beeps if you leave the door open for more than 20 seconds. When the fridge lamp illuminates, the alarm’s photo resistor lowers its resistance, the IC starts counting down and after a preset delay the piezoelectric buzzer beeps for 20 seconds.
Never forget to turn off your headlight ever again!
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Nothing will.
We’ve all heard the expressions “Sleep like the dead” and “Sleep like a baby”. If these sayings hit a little too close to home and you have a loved one who just doesn’t seem to wake up when the humble bedside alarm clock rings, why not invest the soothing sound of a fire alarm clock?
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