Got this to replace my awful Magnavox clock radio, which should have been called the Charles Manson and Kathy Griffin Are Giving Me Nightmares Machine. Love it.
Big numbers I can read without glasses. Automatically sets the time and adjusts to daylight savings and standard time. Good quality sound. Setting the alarm is quick and easy even when you’re half asleep.
Press the snooze button more than once and it adds 10 minutes for each press. The display shows total snooze time. Nice.
Costs 20 clams at Best Buy. Bargain.
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Press snooze more than once and it adds 10 minutes each press? Is that cumulative (so the second press gets 20, third 30, etc?)
Is that supposed to be a positive feature? Isn’t the whole point of the alarm to get you out of bed? It would be more effective if it subtracted 2 minutes each press, and if it got to zero, it started adding decibels.
Or is your mission in life to be like Jim Furyk?
That’s why it’s called the Dream Machine, not the Jump Up and Gobble Some Amphetamines Machine.
I think H.L. is looking for something along the lines of the ThinkGeek alarm clocks:
Sonic Bed Bomb
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/
Twist Equation
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/dbd6/
Robotic Running-Away Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/
And then, there’s the ever-popular and out of stock Danger Bomb Alarm Clock!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/d0a5/?cpg=wnrss
Personally, I use the programmable alarm clock functions of my Sony Ericsson cellphone. I can program it to play a mp3 or annoying noise, or just buzz in vibrate mode, and I can set different alarms for each day.
If it’s like the older model I have, you can adjust how long the snooze is. Myself, I’m good with the retail pricing of 9 minutes…