Showing posts with label alarms. Show all posts
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Clocky Alarm Clock On Wheels Review

Clocky Alarm Clock On Wheels
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If ever there was a product that cried out for an Amazon video review, it's Clocky. This thing is so much fun to play with. It sounds like R2 D2 from Star Wars, and after the first time you hit the snooze alarm it jumps off the table or nightstand and runs around the room a beepin' and a flashin'. You can see it works pretty well on the carpeting and it moves even faster on our tile floors. It can jump down from up to 3 feet without killing itself which is more than you need for most nightstands. I don't know if you can see from the video, but it's made pretty well and seems sturdy.
I bought it for my sister who thinks it's cute during the day but doesn't like chasing it in the morning. I tried to capture her on video, chasing clock in a real live morning situation, but her words were "unkind" and not suitable for an Amazon review.
This makes a cute gift for the person who has everything but likes to sleep. I hope this video gives you a better idea of how cute this thing is. (Sorry for all the jiggling around. I really have to get a camera with some kind of stabilization feature).

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What if R2 D2's only obligation was to chirp incessantly at sleepy Jedi warriors first thing in the morning, while zipping around the bedroom? Certainly, Luke Skywalker would never sleep through a light saber combat training session with Yoda or miss out on a breakfast date with Chewbacca. For anyone who is prone to chronic snooze tag, Nanda Home Inc. created Clocky, their vocal, spastic alarm clock on wheels. Clocky hops off the nightstand and then runs this way and that, all the while beeping with an unpredictable cadence and flashing the backlight on his display screen. With his relentlessly annoying antics, Clocky is effective at motivating even the groggiest sleeper out of bed to hunt him down and put an end to his prattle.
Clocky features a user-friendly interface to set the time and the alarm. For those who prefer a warning before Clocky gets moving, the clock provides a one-time snooze function, customizable from zero to 9 minutes in duration. Likewise, users who prefer not to chase their alarm clock can turn off the wheel function. The display screen includes a PM indicator light and a low battery notification icon, as well as wheels and alarm icons to signify that these functions are on. To ensure safe jumping, place Clocky facing forward on the edge of a 3-foot high or shorter nightstand and clear the landing area of any objects that he might fall on. Clocky is not designed to maneuver shag carpeting. For operation, Clocky requires the separate purchase and installation of four AAA batteries. Clocky comes in several colors, including this almond white. A limited 90-day warranty covers this item. The clock measures 5-1/4 inches wide by 3-1/2 inches deep by 3-1/2 inches high.

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Infinity Instruments Retro Spotlight Alarm Clock - in your choice of colors Review

Infinity Instruments Retro Spotlight Alarm Clock - in your choice of colors
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This is a cute little clock. Looks great in my guest room.
Description says it requires one AA battery, but it requires three. Handling Instructions say "Change the battery once a year ..." - I will be (pleasantly) surprised if they last that long.
To set the alarm or clock, one has to remove the cover on the back of the clock, which is okay to set the time, but which makes setting the alarm a pain. I don't care because I'm putting this clock in a guest room and don't expect guests to want to set the alarm. If it turns out that lots of guests DO want to set the alarm, I'll buy a different clock.
The light can not be turned on - it comes on when you push the little button and goes off when you let go.
The bottom of the clock is slightly warped so the clock wobbles a little - won't sit completely flat.
I'm glad I didn't pay any more than I did for this clock ($16.97) because it is worth about $8 -$10, maybe less, in my opinion.

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Calming Blue Alarm Clock Review

Calming Blue Alarm Clock
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Purchased two of these clocks as the price was right and I liked the blue LED lighting. Within one week, one of them started losing time and digits on the display. I could no longer depend on it daily to wake me for work. Fortunately, I already had another which works fine. Trashed the other one, the hassle to return and get a refund was not worth it. This is not the first time I purchased nicely presented, reasonably priced, junk electronics items from here. In the future I will pass up similar "great deals" on reasonable priced junk electronic items. Three stars for one working, one not.

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Monday, July 2, 2012

Tocky Rolling Alarm Clock Review

Tocky Rolling Alarm Clock
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Pros:
- The first time your partner runs around the house chasing Tocky down to turn it off, you'll be awake laughing hard.
- I like that you can use your own MP3 music.
Cons:
- Tocky is about baseball sized, which is just too small for a lot of reasons (that follow)
- The physical button and touchwheel/touchwheel button are very close together, making it extremely easy to hit the wrong thing. This has been our biggest problem with Tocky. We have inadvertently changed the current time, turned off the daily alarm, routinely hit snooze instead of off.. just because the interface has so few buttons that you really need to pay attention to what you're doing - good luck with that when you're half asleep. These flaws have basically meant that I always have to set a backup alarm, which completely defeats the point. I miss my old big clunker alarm clocks with distinct switches/buttons for everything.
- The LCD backlight is very dim, and only comes on when you press a button. The way Tocky sits and with the rubber cover, you won't be able to see the time standing up if it's on a normal dresser- or nightstand-height surface and you're standing. Plus, the time display is small so you need to pick it up to see it anyway.
- The rubber sleeve seems necessary to protect Tocky and to press the physical button, but it's difficult to get on and off (necessary each time you change the batteries), and needs to be in just the right position to press the button, access the USB port, etc.
- If you leave the rolling on (Tocky's main feature, right?), the batteries run down very quickly. Apparently there's something called "protection mode" (see [...] ) that kicks in when the battery is low, and this caused the alarm to stop functioning without any warning. Um, thanks, Tocky? Good thing I'd set a backup alarm.
- I want to be able to program Tocky to have the alarm go off certain days (M-F) but not others (Sa/Su). This seems like an obvious software feature but you have to either set the alarm to go off or not, no scheduling. With normal alarm clocks this is fine, with Tocky you have to page through so many menus and hold in the touchwheel button for a few seconds and it just takes too long.
- I wish the snooze could be set to longer than 9 minutes.
The minimalist interface design seems good in theory, but sorry, it doesn't work for an alarm clock.

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Handy Trends Instant Perfect Window and Door Alarms - Set of 4 Review

Handy Trends Instant Perfect Window and Door Alarms - Set of 4
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I bought these exact alarms at Menards, same brand-everything. Two of them worked great, but two of them didn't work at all straight out of the package. Tried replacing the battery but still didn't work. You get what you pay for with these.

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Monday, May 14, 2012

RCA RC140 Dual Alarm Clock Radio (Black) Review

RCA RC140 Dual Alarm Clock Radio (Black)
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The alarm has nice big light green colored numbers easy to read from a distance.
I didn't want an alarm with RED numbers. The green is softer looking.
The alarm comes with the BACKUP batteries already installed. The instructions say to plug it in and the time is automatically set, which it is if you don't remove the batteries. However, if the time is off by a few seconds you have to set the clock.
THEN you have to get the instructions out.
The controls for setting time and alarms are on the back/top. If you are older, as I am, you will need your glasses to try and see what to switch.
The radio is not "HI-FI" but is OK for an alarm.
CON:
The only "complaint" I have is with the -time zone- button.
You push the button until you set the correct time zone for where you live. Problem is, it does not display ANYTHING to tell you WHAT time zone you are setting. I guess this is OK, all you do is push the button until the correct HOUR displays.
I would give it -5 stars- except for the time zone setting and the difficult to read SMALL PRINT instructions and switch settings on the back. When you are older it is next to impossible to read these.


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Monday, April 9, 2012

Tocky Runaway Alarm Clock with Mp3 - Aqua Review

Tocky Runaway Alarm Clock with Mp3 - Aqua
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very cute, loud enough, works well, only problem is the sinlge button used to control the entire alarm is pushed by a piece of silicon on the cover, and our doesn't' fit right...so we have to use a small object like a bobby pin or pencil tip to turn the alarm on/off

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Flying Digital Alarm Clock - Black Review

Flying Digital Alarm Clock - Black
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This is a cool concept, and when it actually did what it's supposed to do (before it broke), it did a great job of getting me out of bed in the morning. The problem is that the area in which you're supposed to place the propeller is too fragile. If you don't press down, the alarm doesn't shut off, and if you press too hard (too hard being moderate pressure; I do not have concrete hands), the parts that spin the propeller break.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Jensen JRC-275 AM/FM Dual Alarm Clock Radio with Wave Sensor (Silver) Review

Jensen JRC-275 AM/FM Dual Alarm Clock Radio with Wave Sensor (Silver)
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The feature that automatically turns the display completely dark, then
illuminates it when a hand is waved over the device (no need to find a
button in the dark) convinced me to purchase this clock radio. There
would be no possibility to hear "That clock is too bright; I can't get
to sleep."
That works as designed. The problem is the clock beeps when the
display is activated. Want to check the alarm time? Wave your hand
three times: beep... beep...beep! It sounds like the alarm on my
watch, which is intended to catch my attention, but this is louder
than the watch. There is no option to suppress this sound, and it is
not affected by the volume control. This is a fatal flaw when there
is more than one sleeper in the room.
There is no station memory. If you want to tune a different station,
you have to manually turn a wheel to find the desired station. I am
accustomed to have at least half a dozen stations that can be set
once, then selected with a button press. This requirement for manual
tuning is a bother. No possibility of a quick change to hear a
weather or traffic report, then back to music or whatever.
This lack of station presets is especially bad when one wants an alarm
to start the radio instead of just make a noise. A better design
would let the user associate a specific station to be tuned when the
alarm time arrives. With this Jensen unit, if you use sleep mode to
play the radio while you fall asleep, you need to wake up and re-tune
to the station you want to hear at alarm time.
There is another problem this lack of digital station presets produces.
The manual tuning mechanism tends to drift. I found after I turned
off the radio, it would tune a slightly different frequency when
subsequently turned on. Sometimes, the drift would be large enough
that no station would be heard - a problem if the radio is silent when
it is supposed to wake you - a nuisance when you have to frequently
adjust the tuning just to hear the same station.
The volume control does not permit fine adjustment of loudness at low
levels. Perhaps the circuit designer did not consider an audio taper
potentiometer, or a packaging engineer did not realize only one of two
possible orientations for the volume control is correct. Whatever the
reason, I always had a hard time to find a setting between "silent"
and "too loud" in a quiet bedroom environment.
The single picture in the product description shows a silver case with
black display. In fact, most of the case is black plastic; only the
front half-inch or so is silver, the remaining two and one-half inches
is black. Black is not ugly, but it was an unwelcome surprise on my
brown wood table. Additional images that show side and rear views
would be helpful. I would contribute them, except I repacked my unit
in order to return it.
Why two stars with all these problems? The sound from this radio is
natural and better than I expected from a unit with this size and
price.


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Offering a large, easily readable green LED display, the Jensen JRC-275 clock radio also offers an innovative infrared Wave Sensor feature that allows you to activate the snooze function without hitting the device--just wave your hand above the clock. Additionally, the Wave Sensor feature allows you to wave your hand to show the time (when the clock is in power saver mode), show indoor temperature, and show radio frequency (when in radio mode).

The JRC-275 has an AM/FM as well as auxiliary input jack for connecting your iPod, MP3 or other digital audio players. Its dual alarm includes a snooze function as well as weekend cancellation. Other features include high/low dimmer control, calendar, indoor temperature display, sleep to music function, and a power saver mode that turns the display off after 15 seconds. It measures 4-1/4 by 7-3/8 by 3 inches (HxWxD). It also comes with a CR2032 lithium battery for backup should your power go out.


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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Unirex CX-100 AM/FM Alarm Clock Radio Active Speaker System WHITE Review

Unirex CX-100 AM/FM Alarm Clock Radio Active Speaker System WHITE
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My daughters have Sony Walkman mp3 players, and I was looking for a clock/charger for them. This was priced well and fit both purposes. I was hoping for an "iHome" type of set-up for them- one where they could easily place the mp3 player on the top of the device directly into a charging cradle, but that is not how this works. Most devices will need to plug in with their own unique charger via a usb connection in the side of this devise. The clock setting function is strange. The sound is ok. If you want to play music from the mp3- there is a "line-in" wire to transfer music from the headphone jack to the radio. It is a little cumbersome. For the money and for my pre-teens it was fine.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

SC372 - DIGI ALRM CLCK/FM/AM RADIO Review

SC372 - DIGI ALRM CLCK/FM/AM RADIO
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I wanted a cheap alarm clock that I could connect my Sansa Fuze to. And this one was perfect. The alarm clock radio is very static stricken no matter what station its on. But it don't really matter to me because I use my Sansa Fuze radio. The only problem I have with it is that I thought if I use the 9v battery than I wouldn't need to plug it up to the wall. I was wrong. It only saves the time and alarm settings on the clock when you unplug it. But overall its still a good alarm clock.

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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Memorex MC2842 CD Clock Radio Review

Memorex MC2842 CD Clock Radio
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I just got this CD Clock radio the other day, brand new sealed. When I put a CD in and tried to play it, the audio sorta skipped and sounded like it was underwater. This was manufactured May of 2005 so it's pretty old. Please do not buy this. The other features work but if you want to play CDs, you're screwed.

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