Comments on: Why Do Alarm Clocks Stink?

By: Morgan Windslow

Morgan Windslow — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:17:31 +0000

My Zen Alarm Clock makes a perfect clock to ease into the morning. It chimes only once and then 3 1/2 minutes later and then eventually it speeds up to chime every 4 seconds until you turn it off — the 10 minute progression really is a lovely way to start the morning — not like a electronic sound that most clocks have — these seem to shorten your life!

By: william lai

william lai — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:12:35 +0000

Ah, the AB1 is probably the best single best piece of machinery I’ve ever owned. It has been reliably waking me up for 20+ years, home or away, through countless bangs and drops. it’s simple and its design is no-nonsense form follows function.

anyone has a recommendation as to what to replace the AB1 with? How abut the Muji rubber alarm clock at moma store?

By: Robert Moore

Robert Moore — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:59:30 +0000

The AB1 was my favorite as well. For almost twenty years. The alarm stopped working several years ago. I Finally found it from http://www.aroraelectric.com and purchased two of them. (They do not say “Made in Germany” on them anymore.)

The first one was fine for a while, then the alarm time hand got unstuck from its shaft so could no longer be set.

I got out the second and it runs at half speed.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:09:48 +0000

Try the Neverlate executive for week/weekend auto settings

By: Hunter Xu

Hunter Xu — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:24:37 +0000

Why not have a separate bedside alarm just for waking you up, and use your audio with radio at other room, so you won’t mess up with your credit?

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By: Penny

Penny — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:00:49 +0000

What did the instructions on your Zen clock say to do if the alarm system sticks. My striking arm is not hitting the chime and my clock is out of warranty.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:52:29 +0000

I have had many many alarm clocks, analog, digital, and phone. The analog was hard to see in the morning, so i moved on. The digital was nice, the quality was average (its an alarm clock for 20 bucks, i didn’t expect much), but I couldn’t stand waking up to a bleeding beep every morning. The phone was reliable, and didn’t need service to work. The ringers were LOUD, and woke me up, and the screen light up when the alarm went off. I moved off of it because the phone’s reciption was crap, and did me no good. I have finally settled with something that works for me. My computer is in my room. I just downloaded an alarm program, told my computer (a laptop) to wake from sleep 5 minutes before the alarm in the computer goes off (i get a light before anything else.) Then the alarm goes off with songs i picked from my iTunes library. I just hooked my laptop up to my iHome. The iHome is a good alarm clock, and has really good quality sound (it plays your iPod and charges it too. it also can play other mp3 players through a cable that comes with it; thus, my laptop is attached.) The radio is quite good, the sound quality is great, and the display glows blue on 3 brightness settings. I’ve settled on that to be the perfect alarm for me. The iHome is $100. I don’t use its alarm feature. I don’t attach my iPod to it, so it can either wake me to the radio or to the evil buzzer. The computer program was free. Just google windows/mac alarm clock. You can usually get them for free. Hope this helps! :)

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 13 May 2006 03:24:08 +0000

My idea of a perfect alarm clock
1. Crescendo alarm
2 A soft night light attached to the
side or top of clock that would
illuminate with the commencement of
the alarm
3. This light would remain on after
the alarm was silenced and then would
automatically turn off after 1 minute
Anyone know of anything close to this?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 15:29:04 +0000

better use an automic clock for this ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:54:34 +0000

be careful of getting an alarm clock that sets itself by the atomic clock! i have wallclock in my kitchen that sets itself by the atomic clock every night at 2:04am. love it! but ONCE in a while the signal gets real whacked out and at 7:00am it says something WAY OFF - hours and minutes both. you don’t want that in an alarm clock…