Teletext Recovery - 27/07/1997

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:43/41  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 1/11 Hot Gadgets, presented by Carol Vorderman, puts some of the world's greatest gadgets through their paces to help you decide if they live up to their hype. Every week a team of three gadget roadtesters try out the gadgets at home and then tell the studio audience if they think theyWre Hot or Not. GADGETS TESTED: Truth Phone, Entertrainer, Natural Alarm Clock, Anti-Noise Headphones. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:52/11  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 2/11 TRUTH PHONE A telephone that also claims to be a lie detector. It analyses subtle changes in the voice that could be caused by the stress of lying and then gives a digital readout. A low readout means your caller is telling the truth; a high readout may mean the caller is being deceitful. This week's gadget testers didn't find the phone very easy to use. It firstly needs to be calibrated by asking your caller questions they will definitely answer truthfully. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:52/24  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 3/11 The phone also only works on one word answers so it can be hard keeping a conversation going without being caught out! The phone helped one tester spot a liar so voted it Hot, but overall it was voted Not Hot by a majority of two to one. For more information contact: Counter Spy Shop on telephone: 0171 408 0287. NATURAL ALARM CLOCK A natural alarm clock which uses light to send you to sleep and to wake you up more gently. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:54/50  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 4/11 The clock creates a 30 minute sunset to send you to sleep and then a 30 minute dawn which is meant to wake you naturally. The body's own clock is triggered by light and the natural alarm clock mimics the way that we would be woken naturally by the dawn, so we should be ready to open our eyes as though we'd been woken by the sun. This really suited two of our testers who said they felt really good after using the clock and as though they'd been sleeping for ages. The third thought it felt like waking up under a floodlight. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:51/11  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 5/11 They voted the alarm clock Hot by a majority of two to one. For more information contact: Outside In (Cambridge Ltd) telephone: 01954 211955. ENTERTRAINER The entertrainer connects an exercise bike to the television and is meant as an aid to exercise. It measures how fast youWre cycling and if the number of revs per minute is above a critical level it keeps the TV picture on the screen, so you watch as you exercise. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:51/37  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 6/11 But if your RPM drops too low the box of electronics attached to the bike makes the TV picture fade as an incentive to keep on peddling. The testers thought it was a great idea, but all claimed to be too lazy to keep exercising throughout an episode of EastEnders, so they voted it Not Hot. The Entertrainer is still a prototype at the time of broadcast and is not commercially available. However more information is available from Digital Media on: 0171 240 2776 and at the website: http://www.digitalmedia.demon.co.uk BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 00:42/54  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 7/11 ANTI-NOISE HEADPHONES Headphones that claim to cut out the unwanted sounds of the outside world. A microphone in each ear of the headphones picks up the unwanted external noise and creates a mirror image of that noise which has the effect of cancelling it out. The gadget testers thought the headphones would be good for travelling on aeroplanes. They were originally designed for pilots in order to cut down cabin noise and enable them to hear air-traffic control more clearly. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:42/21  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 8/11 All the testers thought it cut out the right type of noise (including, for one tester, a flatmate's snoring!) but that it affected the quality of the sounds they were listening to. They voted the anti-noise headphones Hot by a majority or two Hots to one Not. For more information contact: Sennheiser Electronics on telephone: 014y4 551551. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:44/43  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 9/11 Other Gadgets Demonstrated: Rest Room Radio - A toilet roll holder that has its own radio and an alarm. Chin Gym - If you wear this contraption for 15 minutes a day the makers claim that it will help you avoid having a double chin. You add weights to it, bite on it and wait... More information from Innovations: 01793 432365 BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:43/04  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 10/11 Space Writer - A way of writing in thin air. This gadget is the electronic equivalent of the sparkler. It works because your eye can actually see an image for a little while after it's disappeared. More information from The Gadget Shop: 01482 860 860. Powered Windchimes - Wind chimes that don't need any wind. These are mains powered. The power switches on an electromagnet in the base which keeps a suspended magnet swinging. This taps the chimes so they play tunes whatever the weather. More information from The Gadget Shop: 01482 860 860. BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

P623 CEEFAX 1 623 Mon 28 Jul 01:43/26  —————————————————————————————   HOT GADGETS   23 July  ——————————————————————— 11/11 This week's celebrity gadget guru is Marie Helvin who shows us her health gadgets including a food dehydrator, yogurt maker, wheat grass juicer, ioniser and all-in-one tea pot and kettle. INFORMATION LINE: 0181 811 1001 Web address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science Hot Gadgets Room 4519, BBC White City 201 Wood Lane London W12 7TS BBC1 601 BBC2 602 ITV 603 Ch4 604 Front page 100 Sport 300 Weather 400 Education Value Accents TV Links

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