Road Tackle: The Jetlag Travel Alarm Clock

Confident, you can rely on the motel wake-up call if you want to, but I personally prefer a backup. If I oversleep and miss the golden hour simply because some lobby jockey did not set the time appropriate, the rest of my day is shot.

The issue is, almost all travel alarm clocks are either too gimmicky or just plain junk. But I may well have discovered the perfect bedside buzzer in Industrial Facility's Jetlag.

The Jetlag does specifically and only what a travel timepiece must. The display, split in half, shows each the current time as well as the alarm time, all the time, so there is by no means any question what it's set to. Plus, every single half has its own +/- button, creating it pretty much impossible to screw items up. A switch on the underside allows you to lock the settings, so you can't accidentally alter them.

The design is so uncomplicated, it's rendered an instruction manual totally unnecessary and has practically entirely eliminated the possibility of setting the alarm incorrectly while exhausted, and possibly drunk, in a foreign environment.

However, a price has but to be announced. Hopefully, it will not be astronomical like most well-designed gadgets. Otherwise, I'm back to attempting to locate a decent clock for the road.