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If someone you know has made a living out of burning toast, odds are they've also startled the neighbours both with an early morning smoke alarm and alarming display of gymnastics in a bathrobe, precarious perches on a chair and ardent hammerings at the batteries of the offending safety device.
Enter the First Alert SA302 Smart Smoke Detector, boasting "dual-sensor" technology that apparently discriminates between dangerous house-is-probably-on-fire smoke and less-disastrous /more-embarrassing crying-wolf cooking smoke (you'll pardon my reluctance at testing this claim... what? I'm going to set my house on fire?).
It does not guarantee a complete exclusion of false alarms but instead offers an ingenious shut-off solution for such an eventuality. Should the Smart Smoke Detector lapse into a fit of alarming deception, the blaring din can be shushed simply by grabbing any infrared device near at hand -- a television remote control, most obviously --, aiming it at the misinformed life-saving/ineptitude-reminding unit, and pressing any button for five seconds (this is also how one tests the unit).
Canadians Note: This brilliant device will not be available in Canada until this time next year -- a CSA thing. However, the SA302's function offers such security and peace of mind -- how many people have yanked the battery from their falsely alarming smoke detector and never got around to putting it back in? -- that ordering one from the US is still a good idea, even with the exchange rate, duty and Gouge & Screw charges as they are.
In fact, a Smart Smoke Detector is exactly what I'm getting my dad is for Christmas, to replace his current smoke detector -- and not for fear of him burning his house down (well, that too, a little bit) but because nobody needs to see him doing the retired-curmudgeon's version of Tai Chi on a chair in his bathrobe, letting it all hang out as he uses a butter knife to wrangle the battery out his personalized "bacon-is-done" alarm.
Reviewed: Dec. 13, 2001
Type: HomeTech, Security
From: First Alert
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