Cool clock radio?

I want a cool clock radio.

Functional, minimal and attractive. Snooze bar a must :wink:

WHY can’t I find one? Any hot tips?

This is quite a challenge…I’ve had mine for a few years, but I think you can still pick one up from these guys…and yes, that’s a BIG blue/gray snooze bar in the font/top area!

It’s the Philips AJ3145

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Philips_AJ3145__5596177

Sorry couldn’t resist…

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-17/qid=1102600460/ref=sr_1_17/601-3121412-9532138?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B00015MFSO

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000695B7/ref=e_de_a_smp/104-7711639-2298329?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846&vi=pictures&img=14#more-pictures

http://mocoloco.com/archives/000725.php

Oops - no clock on that one.

LOL! Dude, thats the one I have now!!!

Not. Cool. Enough.

CG - I like it :frowning:

All the clock radios on the market now are too ornate, are filled with chrome details, and look like smaller versions of these monstrosities…

Who designs this stuff? Really, who is responsible for these shelf system things that every electronics company produces? I think they need more buttons and surface details…

I agree, it’s the best I’ve found too… But the usability sucks and it looks like it belongs in a childrens room. ie. It’s still just a lump of plastic with 70’s-era LED numerals.

I want something “adult” and of “furniture” quality.

Why doesn’t B&O make one?

If you animated a little space ship around it, it would look like a Syd Mead cityscape.

It looks like you can download music to your Oakley MP3 Glasses! :laughing:

I have the rust colored Alessi Coo Coo by Stark, oh sorry I mean by S+ARK, but it has no snooze, apparently you have to sacrafice function for form.


So I traded it out for a little flat Timex place holder, been on the hunt for a cool one for a few years now.

Those stereos are a hoot! Those are obviously designed and marketed exclusively to teenage boys! I think it would be kind of fun to design a few of those. Just throw down a bunch of shapes and shit and go nuts!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009PLIM/ref=e_de_a_smp/104-7711639-2298329?v=glance&s=electronics&vi=pictures&img=14#more-pictures

Tivoli is definitely more adult…as is the price tag - $200, SNOOZE button included. I disagree with the usability issues with the Philips, what’s confusing about it?

Here are a few…much better designs available without the snooze button…but here are some with the snooze alarm…

http://www.retromodern.com/images/lexonLR57.jpg

http://www.retromodern.com/images/lexon_5728.jpg

http://www.retromodern.com/images/lexon_7041.jpg

my personal favorite:
http://www.retromodern.com/images/lexon_7003.jpg


You can purchase all of these at www.retromodern.com

this one is talking to you, CG.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=132&item=2292168808&rd=1

Rock ON!!!

This one incorporates an IR sensor into the snooze bar for those really lazy days.

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Great Snooze button! Bad Amazon reviews…

The problem w/the Philips is in the slider switches on the left side. Because the clock is so lightweight and the sliders are so bad, you’re forced to pick up the entire clock in your other hand to see the control and make the switch. Then you have to do it on feel alone since there isn’t a visual indicator to confirm your selection! Not easy with 3-way switches with about a millimeter of play, low tolerance manufacturing and dome-shapes switches!

The volume and tuner wheels are identical on the right, so it’s really easy to loose that station that took you a minute to tune in with the most sensitive movements when you really wanted to lower the volume. Also, I can’t tell you how many times the thing didn’t wake me up because the volume wheel got turned all the way down, probably by rubbing against a magazine or something on my nightstand due to its poor placement.

Best things: Big numerals, big snooze-bar and dual alarms.

The problem w/the Philips is in the slider switches on the left side. Because the clock is so lightweight and the sliders are so bad, you’re forced to pick up the entire clock in your other hand to see the control and make the switch. Then you have to do it on feel alone since there isn’t a visual indicator to confirm your selection! Not easy with 3-way switches with about a millimeter of play, low tolerance manufacturing and dome-shapes switches!

The volume and tuner wheels are identical on the right, so it’s really easy to loose that station that took you a minute to tune in with the most sensitive movements when you really wanted to lower the volume. Also, I can’t tell you how many times the thing didn’t wake me up because the volume wheel got turned all the way down, probably by rubbing against a magazine or something on my nightstand due to its poor placement.

I guess I can’t aruge now that I think about it…I’ve had it so long it’s become second nature to use it. I think the same things happen when you get too close to the specific industry or product that you’re designing: you lose grasp of what is and isn’t intuitive for the end user. :open_mouth:

I googled “designer alarm clock” cause you never know, and found this:

It is made by Lexon

get it here:

http://www.bigltd.co.uk/toptenr.html

Broooo

I know exactly what you mean…

I’ve been looking for a good alarm clock lately and there are very very few…

The best I found was this lil’ bad bwoy by Philippe Starck.




Very minimal, hard edged, none of that blobby sci-fi lookin crap


…mmmm. nice…

and it projects the clock onto the ceiling or sommin.

check it here:

http://www2.oregonscientific.com/starckclocks/multi.htm

I’ve only seen pics so dunno how it actually wroks

The problem w/the Philips is in the slider switches on the left side. Because the clock is so lightweight and the sliders are so bad, you’re forced to pick up the entire clock in your other hand to see the control and make the switch. Then you have to do it on feel alone since there isn’t a visual indicator to confirm your selection! Not easy with 3-way switches with about a millimeter of play, low tolerance manufacturing and dome-shapes switches!

The volume and tuner wheels are identical on the right, so it’s really easy to loose that station that took you a minute to tune in with the most sensitive movements when you really wanted to lower the volume. Also, I can’t tell you how many times the thing didn’t wake me up because the volume wheel got turned all the way down, probably by rubbing against a magazine or something on my nightstand due to its poor placement.

Best things: Big numerals, big snooze-bar and dual alarms.

nailed it. i have a short version. probably same buttons. exact same issues. would add Time Set. not well resolved. was the best on shelf for quick replacement. not much out there tbh. bought this mainly for big numbers. didnt care then about dual alarm. i like it now. but wish first setting was radio. second was buzzer. sometimes radio doesnt do it. and buzzer is killer.