Freeplay S 360

The radio is absolutely RUBBISH it only works when the clockwork mechanism is unwinding then it goes off and stops. I call mine the wind me up radio. You cannot open it to try to repair it. It is totaly useless. My wife purchased it for my one Christmas, I now wonder whether it was an early April fools day present. It now an ornament on one of the shelves in my design and technology classroom. Showing my pupils an example of a very poor ...

I have owned one of these for a month and have been very impressed with its performance. This is one of those products that has been in the public eye for several years but I have not bothered to investigate further even though it has several obvious advantages over other radios. I suppose the main reason is that most people will have several radios in their house already so any new product must be pretty darn good and distinctive to justify buying it.... The wind-up radios were first publicised when various documentaries showed inventor Trevor Bayliss promoting and marketing them in Africa where a larger version was hugely sucessful due to the general ...

I remember when the posh girl at school first got a gramophone. We all piled round to her parents shop and looked on aghast at this wonderful technology. Just a few winds and as if by magic music would emerge from the trumpet. Hang on. That's not my memory. Ah, I'm having another 'Little House on the Prairie' flashback. Nevermind, what it does bring to light is the history of winding things up is old enough to feature in period dramas. But life moved on and oh so quickly. Without the luxury of predicting the future the human race ransacked Mother Earth's assets and found they could create all sorts of labour saving ...