Best Electronic Alarm Clocks
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'll mention a few things that I think vary from what I remember reading (and I read a TON or reviews, lol) and am uploading some photos so you can get a closer look and see what I mean... First, I read some frustrations about not being able to set the time or alarms without accessing the buttons from above. I'm able to set the time and alarm times via the touch buttons on the front, below the time (see photo where buttons are lit). The only thing you have to use the upper buttons for (in relation to setting alarms) is to turn an alarm off or on. The last two photos show all of the upper buttons, all the way around. If I set down a cup of coffee near it, during the alarm time, it snoozes the radio off. I could change the settings for no snooze but I like waking up to radio and having the option of touching it for more quiet time."
"I had accidentally unplugged the alarm but when I plugged it back in, it remembered the time! My favorite part is when it turns red as it gets darker or brighter (depending on if you are doing sunrise or sunset.). It wakes me up nice and gently and helps motivate me to get up and get on about my day."
"It not only wakes you up by slowly ramping up the brightness while changing colors, it does a cool sunset as well. I don't know about you, but when I'm first waking up, being careful not to knock over the round, unstable, clock isn't exactly the easiest thing. It has a mixture of buttons around the edges and a touch screen on the front. Try finding a specific button with a bright light blasting in your eyes. I would recommend turning this into a cube with physical buttons on top that are easy to find, even with your eyes closed. Automatic knowledge of the day of the week and when DST begins and ends."
"This may seem like a nit pick but -. For those of us that strive to have as dark a room as possible, the controls should have a zero light setting."
This advanced clock radio automatically sets the time and date and saves all your alarm settings when the power goes out. Plus, with time projection display, dual alarms, temperature display, a large backlit LCD with dimming options, and the ability to play your smartphone, tablet, or MP3 player music, this is the only alarm clock you’ll ever need. This smart alarm clock is preconfigured with the correct time, all you need to do is specify your time zone and it will always be accurate, even after a power outage. Automatically adjusts to Daylight Savings Time & includes pre-programmable daily dual alarm option with weekend cancellation for you and your partner - wake to radio, buzzer, time projection.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I want to bring to shoppers' attention that a while after I purchased this product, ShopTronics, the seller, emailed me a form letter asking that I write a review of the Electrohome Projection Alarm Clock on Amazon in return for a 1 year extension of the product's warranty. The form on their website has a spot for the review text, the star rating given, and some instructions include the following lines of text: "The star rating of your review has no impact on your extended warranty." Any reviewer that meets all standards will receive an email notification with the Extended Warranty Confirmation.""
"This is the perfect alarm clock for me."
"This clock does exactly what I hoped it would. I don't use it as an alarm since my phone is right next to my bed; but my son was playing with it and accidentally set the alarm one night."
"My wife's clock worked flawlessly out of the box, but mine had a dimmer issue. Well, the HI can light up a room and the off is more of a negative display (turning the screen black and the numbers a dim white). The radio was only bringing in static and there was a slight "digital" bleeping sound in the background. Great clock if/when it works...but have two out of three fail in 4 days isn't a good first impression. Congrats to the several thousand people who had 5-Star success...but I'm in the 2-3 star approval range for this product. The pics were taking with a crappy cell phone camera so I adjusted them to attempt to give a more accurate depiction, hopefully that helps SOMEONE, though my advice is to just buy something else entirely."
Wake-up and fall asleep the way nature intended with hOmelabs Sunrise Alarm Clock! This is a next-generation alarm clock that can awaken a person to a simulated sunrise instead of a loud alarm. SMART FEATURES AND TAP-TO-SNOOZE FUNCTION - With intuitive and easy-to-use touch keys, it is very easy and comfortable to set time, alarm, light, radio stations, and operate all kind of function. MULTIPLE SOUND ALARMS AND FM RADIO - This cute programmable and non ticking alarm clock that displays bright and large numbers also plays 6 various natural sounds, such as birds, forests, sea waves, etc that you can wake up along with sunlight. Also, you can set your favorite FM radio channel to play and replace your device's pre-set alarm sound.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The others are calm and easy to listen to songs to wake up to that may have nature sounds thrown in the mix."
"I was really excited for this alarm clock as I haven't had one since I was probably a pre-teen."
"I had to finally break down and put a clock back into my bedroom after years of using my phoone."
"I do enjoy the colored lights I can use when I'm winding down at night. The ability to turn off the whole display at night is also a big plus for me since I do not like any light at all once I fall asleep."
"Dislikes: * There are a lot of buttons on this clock and does take some getting used to in the beginning. *No daylight savings shortcut setting. * You cannot set the alarm by days. * It is EXTREMELY easy to accidentally shut off this clock, the snooze button will snooze the alarm, but you need to ensure you don’t hit any of the other top buttons near it when you do it. Overall, it's a an awesome clock and I find that it does naturally wake me more than the other one I have, I barely hit the snooze button now, but because of the alarm shut off with any button, I do set my other alarm as a back up for now until I break this one in more and get more disciplined."
"The different alarms sound are good because after a while my brain gets used to one sound and instead of waking me up the alarm sound just plays in my dream and I hear it but don't realize its my alarm and I oversleep."
"I like the all the different colors you can choose for the surrounding disc (blue, orange, red, green, purple, white), I will keep mine on white, but I would think those other colors would be appealing to people."
Best Clock Radios
This advanced clock radio automatically sets the time and date and saves all your alarm settings when the power goes out. Plus, with time projection display, dual alarms, temperature display, a large backlit LCD with dimming options, and the ability to play your smartphone, tablet, or MP3 player music, this is the only alarm clock you’ll ever need. This smart alarm clock is preconfigured with the correct time, all you need to do is specify your time zone and it will always be accurate, even after a power outage. Automatically adjusts to Daylight Savings Time & includes pre-programmable daily dual alarm option with weekend cancellation for you and your partner - wake to radio, buzzer, time projection.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I want to bring to shoppers' attention that a while after I purchased this product, ShopTronics, the seller, emailed me a form letter asking that I write a review of the Electrohome Projection Alarm Clock on Amazon in return for a 1 year extension of the product's warranty. The form on their website has a spot for the review text, the star rating given, and some instructions include the following lines of text: "The star rating of your review has no impact on your extended warranty." Any reviewer that meets all standards will receive an email notification with the Extended Warranty Confirmation.""
"This is the perfect alarm clock for me."
"This clock does exactly what I hoped it would. I don't use it as an alarm since my phone is right next to my bed; but my son was playing with it and accidentally set the alarm one night."
"My wife's clock worked flawlessly out of the box, but mine had a dimmer issue. Well, the HI can light up a room and the off is more of a negative display (turning the screen black and the numbers a dim white). The radio was only bringing in static and there was a slight "digital" bleeping sound in the background. Great clock if/when it works...but have two out of three fail in 4 days isn't a good first impression. Congrats to the several thousand people who had 5-Star success...but I'm in the 2-3 star approval range for this product. The pics were taking with a crappy cell phone camera so I adjusted them to attempt to give a more accurate depiction, hopefully that helps SOMEONE, though my advice is to just buy something else entirely."
Best Travel Alarm Clocks
While you adjust the alarm clock to project the correct time the image may come blurry or out of focus. Not only you can make use of a dual alarm function (you can wake up with a buzzer or a radio), but you can also easily switch from AM to FM radio in a glance. The goal of the alarm radio clock is to give you options and functionality, and this is what the Mesqool alarm clock truly represents. The AM/FM tuner lets you choose from a wide range of free music, talk shows, sports, stories, morning talk shows, broadcasts, weather forecast, traffic and much more. alarm rings incrementally louder, therefore it will not scare you awake from sweet sleep. 1 Year Replacement Guarantee / 3 Months Full refund Guarantee / 18 Months Extended Warrantly Peroid - Never Worry about returning,refund,replacement even though amazon return window is closed,just contact seller through support email,toll free hotline,website pasted on back of product.USB CHARGING & BATTERY BACKUP – Suitable for Android and iOS cellphones ,tablets.AC power is required for all functions work,2 pcs AAA batteries backup your setting time in case of power outage.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Pros: - Easy to set up. - Projection is adjustable and has focus. - No worries about atomic sync errors (wrong time zones). - Large red numbers. - Dimmer. - Doesn’t turn off daily (like Sony). - Fair price. Cons: - Dimmer doesn't dim much. - Numbers are spaced awkwardly. - Projection not as bright as my old clock. - Radio speaker is tinny. - Positioning feet don't work well."
"The numbers and AM/PM projected onto the textured ceiling and both my wife (also near-sighted) and I could easily read the time on the ceiling. Also has a standard USB connection (like you have on your computer) on it for a charging cable of your choice (not supplied). There is a DST toggle which will move the hour forward or backward so you do not have to dink with the time at all!"
"After spending lots of time thoroughly researching products and comparing reviews, I am so happy with my choice and would buy this exact product again if something happened to this one."
"I am extremely happy with the replacement at this time and the customer service that brought me this unsolicited replacement. Due to the customer service and quality of the replacement - I have increased my rating from 1 star to 4 stars."
"I reason I bought this clock was I was getting tired of waking up during the night and trying to find my glasses so I could see my bedside clock face. The actual clock face is larger than most beside clocks."
"Got another one for my sons dorm room where his bed is lofted up too high to be able to see a clock at night."
"The instructions are a little vague and difficult to understand, BUT if you call the 800 number on the box, John in customer service is AWESOME!"
"The first one I received had some issues with it such as alarm not turning off at all no matter what."
Best Specialty Clocks
While you adjust the alarm clock to project the correct time the image may come blurry or out of focus. Not only you can make use of a dual alarm function (you can wake up with a buzzer or a radio), but you can also easily switch from AM to FM radio in a glance. The goal of the alarm radio clock is to give you options and functionality, and this is what the Mesqool alarm clock truly represents. The AM/FM tuner lets you choose from a wide range of free music, talk shows, sports, stories, morning talk shows, broadcasts, weather forecast, traffic and much more. alarm rings incrementally louder, therefore it will not scare you awake from sweet sleep. 1 Year Replacement Guarantee / 3 Months Full refund Guarantee / 18 Months Extended Warrantly Peroid - Never Worry about returning,refund,replacement even though amazon return window is closed,just contact seller through support email,toll free hotline,website pasted on back of product.USB CHARGING & BATTERY BACKUP – Suitable for Android and iOS cellphones ,tablets.AC power is required for all functions work,2 pcs AAA batteries backup your setting time in case of power outage.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Pros: - Easy to set up. - Projection is adjustable and has focus. - No worries about atomic sync errors (wrong time zones). - Large red numbers. - Dimmer. - Doesn’t turn off daily (like Sony). - Fair price. Cons: - Dimmer doesn't dim much. - Numbers are spaced awkwardly. - Projection not as bright as my old clock. - Radio speaker is tinny. - Positioning feet don't work well."
"The numbers and AM/PM projected onto the textured ceiling and both my wife (also near-sighted) and I could easily read the time on the ceiling. Also has a standard USB connection (like you have on your computer) on it for a charging cable of your choice (not supplied). There is a DST toggle which will move the hour forward or backward so you do not have to dink with the time at all!"
"Got another one for my sons dorm room where his bed is lofted up too high to be able to see a clock at night."
"I purchased this form my wife as she had trouble seeing the buttons on the old alarm clock."
"I previously had an atomic clock that was ridiculously difficult to set up and I couldn't get the ceiling display to work."
"Great ceiling display, but cannot turn display off on clock itself, can only dim it."
"The first one I received had some issues with it such as alarm not turning off at all no matter what."
"The projector could be brighter, but it works and the projection image is both flippable and focusable (non-words)."
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Function: ● Sunrise Feature: Sunrise simulation wake-up light alarm clock wakes you up natually prior 30 minutes to your alarm time by gradually increasing light brightness. ● Sunset Feature: The light dimming gradually feature guides you to natural, restful sleep after 30 minutes of sleep time. ● 7 Alarming Sounds: Hotweild radio alarm clock have 6 natural sounds and FM radio which can be selected as alarm clock sound. ● 7 Colorful Changeable Light: This alarm clock can used as a table clock/night light/table lamp or bed lamp in white color or multi-color,which is a great alarm clock for kids. In the sunrise simulation mode, the wake up light alarm clock will bring you out of a deep sleep gently and naturally with gradually brightening light for 30 minutes of alarm time. ❤ 7 LED COLORS & ADJUSTABLE BRIGHTNESS: The alarm clock for bedroom use a special 7 color design (Warm white, green, red, blue, yellow, purple and light blue can be selected). ❤ UNIQUE QUALITY & 3 CHARGING METHODS: Hotweild alarm clock has built-in 9 warm white LED and 9 RGB LED, which makes an excellent light effect.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"So i bought this alarm clock recently and i was surprised seeing its efficiency."
"When I wanted to buy a radio, I found this alarm clock."
"I like this clock; it's large (the time is easy to read) and the appearance is "different.""
"I normally hit the snooze for 45 minutes trying to get out of bed in the morning. So you don't accidentally hit them when trying to snooze."
"This alarm clock has a nice display with changing colors."
"Outstanding quality and easy to use for daily."
"I love how it slowly lights the room up because it seems to wake her up better."
"It didn't wake me up bit I have real difficulty waking up in the morning."
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Super Loud Alarm Clock, No Snooze , Perfect for Waking Heavy Sleepers. Quiet sweep movement offers a second hand that moves in a continuous motion around the dial with NO TICKING, doesn't tick for restless sleepers. No snooze button, good wake up clock for people who has trouble waking up.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's painfully loud and sends me in a terrified panic, sheets flying, stumbling as quickly as I can to shut the thing off. In fact, I put duct tape on the inside and outside of the bells where the hammer strikes to take the shrill edge off the obnoxious sound and it still freaks me out every morning. I used to keep it down the hall from my bedroom in an attempt to trick myself into more bodily movement before turning it off, hoping that'd make me alert enough to not slink back to my beloved, warm sheets. That means that if the switch on the back is set to "on," it'll ring any time the clock hits 5:00 without recognizing a difference between am and pm."
"I've had firetrucks, ambulances, and police cars in my front yard and slept through it. I slept through classes for weeks at a time even though I had alarms going off for hours. Just make sure to put it where you have to get out if bed to turn it off so you don't risk falling back asleep."
"Changing the battery takes 10 seconds so the time will still be current so no need to worry about loosing time and resetting like a digital clock. Once the time is set, just turn the alarm dial to whichever time you wish to wake up then flip the switch to on. Its definitely easier to set this clock (time and alarm) then it is to set a digital alarm clock and that's a fact. Its an alarm clock. I bought this for my mom who always calls me to stop by and set her alarm clock. She had a typical digital clock where you need to press clock/time and then hours/min to set and change time. ---One of the knobs is to set the current time which moves both large and small hands on the face of the clock as you turn the knob. This is a great alarm clock that's extremely easy to use."
"I just woke up to this alarm clock for the first time and WOW is it effective."