Philips just announced this new wireless WAK3300 alarm clock as an extension to their
Streamium range of connected home media devices. So as the name implies, you can stream your tunes over WiFi to this bedside pup from your
WACS700 (which also got a drive bump to 80GB) Music Center or via internal storage just in case your home network is down or turned off for the night. We presume (it isn't stated) that the device will accept streams from any device supporting
UPnP (such as your PC or
SoundBridge) since that's the tech at the heart of both the Streamium lineup and
Philips' home connectivity strategy. But we'll just have to wait for the details before getting too far ahead of ourselves on this.
posted Jun 12th 2006 9:01AM
gr8 philips is definitely leading the way on home inteegration services and the clock looks cool too. ist post
gr8 philips is definitely leading the way on home inteegration services and the clock looks cool too. ist post
Hey that looks nice. Philips gets kudos from me for their Streamium line, I really think they deserve more attention for these products. I got my parents and my sister each one of the discontinued mc-i250's on the cheap from eBay for Christmas and they love them. The selection of web radio stations they can play is impressive. Of course, the i250 needed a lot of work in the navigation and remote areas (probably why it was discontinued), but for the price I got them for, they rock.
This is a very cool idea, do you think that we can get an atomic clock integration over the internet so when the power goes out it'll sync back up?? That'd be sweet. Very cool idea.
Very slick.
that thing looks gorgeous
FYI typo. It's WAK3300, not WAK3000.
Looks very nice! Anyone know of a decent looking alarm clock with a little internal memory or card support for storing a few MP3 tracks?
It'd be nicer if this device were powered by Windows Vista's Auxiliary Displays
I hope that this alarm clock can be triggered from the network. I already see great applications coming (in my dreams). For example... Microsoft Exchange Server that looks in your schedule for the next day and automatically programs the alarm. Wow that would be very, very nice.