Road Tackle: The Jetlag Travel Alarm Clock

Positive, you'll be able to 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 due to the fact some lobby jockey did not set the time ideal, the rest of my day is shot.

The problem is, almost all travel alarm clocks are either too gimmicky or just plain junk. But I could have located the ideal bedside buzzer in Industrial Facility's Jetlag.

The Jetlag does precisely and only what a travel timepiece really should. The display, split in half, shows each the existing time along with the alarm time, all the time, so there is in no way any question what it is set to. Plus, each half has its own +/- button, creating it virtually impossible to screw points up. A switch on the underside lets you lock the settings, so you can't accidentally alter them.

The style is so easy, it's rendered an instruction manual completely unnecessary and has nearly entirely eliminated the possibility of setting the alarm incorrectly while exhausted, and possibly drunk, in a foreign environment.

However, a cost has yet to be announced. Hopefully, it won't be astronomical like most well-designed gadgets. Otherwise, I'm back to attempting to discover a decent clock for the road.