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Oregon Scientific, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronic products including digital clocks, home weather stations, public alert monitors, fitness devices, toys, and globes, The firm was started in 1989 in
In 2007, CES Innovations award winners included the ATC2K Waterproof Action Cam, the Talking Wireless BBQ/Oven Thermometer and the WeatherNow II. Their Pendant MP3 Player and Waterproof MP3 player received awards for innovation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show. In 2003, OSI partnered with SMaL, Axia and
Hoovers: IDT International (parent company)
IDT International Limited's website
Weather Spares - Oregon Scientific UK Premier Resseller
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, United States
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. In 1997, the company became a fully owned subsidiary of IDT (Integrated Display Technology), a Hong Kong
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-based company.
Products
OSI and its parent company introduced the world's slimmestMP3
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player and the first digital, personal monitor for air quality. The company is known for its WeatherNow award-winning weather station
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built for home use that uses FM radio signals from MSN Direct to provide 4-days of regional weather information. Oregon Scientific made the first stand alone waterproof mp3 player.
In 2007, CES Innovations award winners included the ATC2K Waterproof Action Cam, the Talking Wireless BBQ/Oven Thermometer and the WeatherNow II. Their Pendant MP3 Player and Waterproof MP3 player received awards for innovation at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show. In 2003, OSI partnered with SMaL, Axia and Fujifilm
, trading as Fujifilm, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the realms of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals.
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to produce the world’s smallest digital camera. Other products include a waterproof digital video camera, an alarm clock designed by Philippe Starck (a French designer), a pedometer that keeps seven days' worth of data, and an electronic UV monitor among others. The company introduced the Meep! tablet marketed for children in 2012.
History
In 2000, one of the company's weather radios was recalled for errors in reporting severe weather warnings. In 2005-06, the company opened its own retail stores with locations inLos Angeles
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, Palo Alto
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The city was es ...
and Tualatin.Brinckman, Jonathan. Bringing home the buzz. ''The Oregonian'', March 30, 2006. These stores round out their retail locations currently in Italy, China, Singapore and Hong Kong.
The French subsidiary, Oregon Scientific France SARL, has been liquidated in December 2020. The UK subsidiary, Oregon Scientific (UK) Ltd., is in the process of being struck off by Companies House (April 2022) following the difficult trading conditions during the global Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit when the UK left the European Common Market.
In 2021 Oregon Scientific launched its rebranded range of home weather stations moving away from their numbering format to named. These were named after astrometric events in the solar system Moon, Venus, Eclipse, Mars etc. These continue to be produced by IDT International and distributed globally through limited channels.
References
External links
Hoovers: IDT International (parent company)
IDT International Limited's website
Weather Spares - Oregon Scientific UK Premier Resseller
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