Philips' Streamium WAK3300 WiFi alarm clock

by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 12th 2006 at 9:01AM

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.

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Home Entertainment

Tags: alarm clock, AlarmClock, atreamium, philips, upnp, wacs700, wak3000, wifi

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dhruv @ Jun 12th 2006 9:18AM

gr8 philips is definitely leading the way on home inteegration services and the clock looks cool too. ist post

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dhruv @ Jun 12th 2006 9:20AM

gr8 philips is definitely leading the way on home inteegration services and the clock looks cool too. ist post

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Patrick @ Jun 12th 2006 9:45AM

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.

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daviel @ Jun 12th 2006 10:28AM

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.

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Craig @ Jun 12th 2006 10:55AM

Very slick.

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will chen @ Jun 12th 2006 11:15AM

that thing looks gorgeous

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Michael @ Jun 12th 2006 12:13PM

FYI typo. It's WAK3300, not WAK3000.

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AFD @ Jun 12th 2006 12:22PM

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?

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Bernard @ Jun 12th 2006 7:27PM

It'd be nicer if this device were powered by Windows Vista's Auxiliary Displays

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Leon Meijer @ Jun 26th 2006 6:05PM

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.

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