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Lovely Chick-a-Dee bird-shaped smoke detector modeled after the canaries that helped miners test shafts for poisonous gases. As soon as smoke is detected, the bird chips with a mighty 85-decibel alarm signal.

Lovely Chick-a-Dee bird-shaped smoke detector modeled after the canaries that helped miners test shafts for poisonous gases. As soon as smoke is detected, the bird chips with a mighty 85-decibel alarm signal.

8-1-2012
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