Today's promo is another semi-useful item, but it's more than it seems. It's not only a calculator/alarm clock, but it's also enhanced with the Robot Transformation! Much like ordinary, boring alarm/calculators, this one tells you the time and beeps just a bit too softly to wake you up if you make the mistake of using it as a traveling alarm. It adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides with the best of them. It can let you know the time in sixteen different time zones. It even has a calendar of whatever month it happens to be.

But the magic doesn't stop there, for this is the amazing Clock/Clac/Cal with the Robot Transformation! With just a press of the button (the half-circle thing with the three dots above the GameCube logo) it unfolds from its closed, flattened state into a triangular clock of doom! Sadly, unlike the cool robots, it doesn't fight a rogues gallery of insane evil clocks intent on sucking the time from everyone in the world, or possibly just making them run a few minutes late.

It actually is a pretty useful little device, all kidding aside. It's accurate and it looks neat, and it's kind of fun to watch unfold. When you press the button, a spring pushes the back part up and the screen drops down into the third leg of the triangle, where a little magnet holds it in place. You fold the screen into the back part to use it as a calculator, and when done it folds up nice and flat for easy travel storage. About the only things I can say against it is that it doesn't have a lit screen (insert GBA joke here) and the alarm, as mentioned above, isn't anything you'd want to rely on.

Now, anyone know what on earth a Clac is?

· · · James Cunningham