No problem, I gave one as a gift to my niece actually a while back. It was a great hit, she really took to keeping track of the weather forecast each day. I wouldn't worry about the availability of this item. Usually it comes in spurts like it dissapears for a while then thingfling brings it back from the dead to make rounds for a while. I'm sure it's going to come up again soon...
I don't know why but TF seems to have an endless supply of these as theyve been selling them off and on for months. Maybe because people dont realize how good they really are? if you have one of those five off ten coupons from the MB and decided to use it on this, you get it for way way cheap.

Well A) I don't believe these are refurbished at all and B) Before you write off thingfling, did you even bother to send in a ticket on the help desk? I'm positive they'll set things right for you, but you have to actually let them know there was a problem.

You want a projection clock. This is a cool clock, but you have to tap it for the backlight to come on.

RadioShack had a really cool projection clock on clearance a couple of months ago. #63-100. Automatic atomic self-setting, configurable alarm, 24/7 projection, and 24/7 backlight. Don't know if your radio shacks have any left. (I pretty much cleaned out the greater Phoenix Radio Shacks as they were selling for < $10 each... great gifts...).

upate: Apparently #63-100 was discontinued, but this model (#63-144) looks really similar:

http://www.radioshack.co...k&parentPage=search

Just a thought, and maybe it wouldn't look pretty, but have you considered raising the rear end ofr the clock so that the front lcd is more vertical rather than angled? Maybe some well placed pieces of cork feet on the back, I don't know. I can see how that would be a problem iff bed and nightstand are level, it just never was an issue for me, honestly I don't use this clock as my main alarm clock because being deaf I have a special clock that vibrates the bed at the appointed time. So mainly whenever I'm viewing the LCD of this clock I'm standing and for that the angled face works well.

It's been coming up a lot lately. Just check the site often and keep an eye on the future fdlings list and I'm sure you'll catch it eventually.

All the positive reviews prompted me to buy a couple for my kids. I would have been pretty skeptical otherwise!

My only thought is that the color choices are odd; Red (warning,danger,stop,bad) for nice weather! Blue (blue skys, nice weather) is rain !!???

Well I got one of these in the Holiday Mystery Box. Thought it would make a great gift. Box looked unopened and brand new...

Unfortunately... recipient just took it out of the box yesterday and there is NO SENSOR!!!

So now it is rather useless. Anyone out there who can help me out? (Or the King perhaps???)

Scaredwitless is right. Subbmitting a ticket to our HelpDesk is the (only) way to go.

This is a great weather station especially for the ThingFling price!

Mine immediately found and displayed the outside temperature using a sensor I had already placed out on the patio for a Radio Shack (Oregon Scientific) picture frame that also displays time and temperature so I didn't even have to unpack and install the sensor that came with the Color-Changing forecaster. The sensor that comes with the Color-Changing is designed for extreme temperatures by the way; something not needed here in FL, but for those that do it will read down to -40 degrees F, and up to 140 degrees F. They recommend the use of lithium batteries when the temperature falls to -4 degrees F and below.

The color change seems to be driven by changes in the barometric pressure which does a fairly nice job of actually predicting the weather for the next 12-24 hours within a 19-31 mile radius. They claim 70-75% accuracy. I have a 5 day predicting forecaster that uses a radio signal transmitted via the myAmbient.com network, and it and the color changer are currently predicting the same conditions at least for the near term.

I just bought this as my very first fling! The lengthy review on the first page of this thread was great help. Can't wait for it to arrive!

My old alarm clock has a projector that displays the time on the ceiling, which I like a lot. Maybe I'll just have 2 clocks?

I live in southern california so I don't expect this thing to be changing to many colors, but lately it's been raining a lot. Hopefully I can get it before the sun starts coming out again, I want to see that pretty blue color on the clock!