Sixty years ago, this week’s issue of Life Magazine carried this ad for Motorola’s latest clock radio.  For $39.95, this handsome set told the time and date, and would sing you asleep at night and sing you awake in the morning.  As an added bonus, it would have your coffee waiting.

The last item was accomplished by having a switched AC outlet on the back of the radio, which came on when the radio did.  All you would need to do would be to plug your electric percolator into the radio.  Since the radio was presumably in the bedroom, you would need to make the coffee there as well, unless you had a heavy-duty extension cord.

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