Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Sleep Monitor


It’s a well known fact that iPhone owners sleep better at night; with all those apps, Siri and the iCloud keeping them smug and toasty. Oh alright, that’s not true. iPhone users have just as much trouble nodding off as anyone else; unless they arm themselves with the Lark Sleep Monitor, of course.
Part hardware, part iPhone app; this advanced monitoring system not only wakes you silently (saving your sleeping partner an ear-bashing), but it’ll also give you handy stats on your sleep patterns and advise how to get more from your down time.


Just strap on the Sure-Thing wrist band and set your alarm using the free-to-download iPhone app. When it’s time to wake up, the wrist strap will vibrate gently, getting steadily heavier until you acknowledge it. And even if the worst should happen and the batteries die in the night, your iPhone is programmed to give you an audio cue if you oversleep – that’s a loud beep to us plain-speaking types. But the wrist strap is more than just an alarm clock.


Over the course of the night it’ll monitor your movement – giving you feedback via your iPhone the following morning on how restless you have been, when you were sleeping most deeply and more. Over time the Lark system will even coach you into a more restful sleeping pattern – helping you to get the most out of your sleepy time and be more productive by day. Now that’s reason enough to feel a bit smug.

Please Note:
System Requirement: iOS 4.2.6 or higher
iPhone and grateful partner not included

Product Features:
Wake like never before – gently, naturally and without disturbing your sleeping partner
Find out if you're waking without knowing. And why you might not be performing at your best during the day
Get a complete picture of what type of sleeper you are and how you compare with others
Wake your full potential with a revolutionary Sleep Coach developed by sleep and pro sports experts and personalized for you

Technical Specifications:
Silent Un-Alarm Clock:
Wristband vibrates at the set time (even if your phone dies)
Audio back-up wakes you just in case wristband battery dies or you remove it in your sleep
Sleep Sensor & Tracker
Micromovement wrist sensor picks up patterns while you sleep
Mobile app and personal online dashboard show how you slept

Instant Digital Camera


Smile! Click! Whirr! Yay, instant photography is making a comeback. And thanks to the Polaroid Z340 it’s better than ever. Delivering a new twist on a classic concept, this amazing camera merges the genius of digital photography with the convenience of instant printing, spewing out quality 3”x4” prints on the fly or storing them via SD card for subsequent USB-ing to computer. Cheese!

With its reassuringly retro styling you’d be forgiven for thinking the Z340 is merely a pimped-up reissue of a classic Polaroid camera. But you’d be wrong because its beautifully blocky chassis is brimming with 21st century tech.

For starters you can use its pop-up 3.7” LCD screen to review, crop and edit snaps before printing them out – hooray, no more Polaroids with mooning pillocks in the background. Dispensing with duds has never been easier. You can even add a classic Polaroid white border to your pics or use a downloadable app to design your own.

Talking of printing, this best of both worlds camera uses ingenious heat-activated Zink paper to perform its instant magic. Smudge-proof, water-resistant, fade-resistant and tear-proof, the only thing this miraculous stuff can’t do is make you look attractive after ten pints.
Throw in impressive picture quality, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB cable and hand strap and you’re looking at a camera that’s guaranteed to elicit oohs and aahs every time you pull it out. And let’s be honest, taking Polaroids has always been about other people’s reactions, good or otherwise: “If you don’t rip that up right now…”

In fact the only thing the Z340 won’t do is get you beaten to a pulp because you’ll no longer have to perform that daft, potentially suggestive shaky hand thing to dry your prints. Smile!

Product Features:
14.0 megapixel digital camera
4x digital zoom
2.7" bright color LCD for viewing images
SD compatible for expanded memory
Rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Snap, print, share – no computer connections needed
3 x 4” full-colour prints
Smudge-proof, water-resistant, tear-resistant, photos
No ink cartridges or ribbons to throw away
View and crop images on camera before printing
Option to print date, file number
Add a fun and useful border to your photo including the Classic Polaroid Border logo format
Upload custom borders
Automatically save photos to camera or SD card for downloading
Print in under a minute
Print up to 25 photos per full battery charge