Get a back-up alarm
This alarm clock has everything you want in a Sunrise alarm clock. When it works, I wake up more rested and energized. The problem is that it only works about 80% of the time. For some reason, sometimes even if I haven't changed a setting or touched it other than to push the button to turn on and off the alarm, it simply won't go off at all.... no light, no alarm, no nothing. Other times the light will come on (which does sometimes gently wake me up) but then when the alarm is supposed to go off the light suddenly turns off and the alarm doesn't sound. These are glitches that make me wary of using this as my only alarm and so I still have my old clock radio set for 10 minutes later just in case. Kind of annoying having two alarm clocks when one should be enough. Another annoying thing that isn't a glitch is that the snooze (a sensor on the side that you wave your hand in front of) immediately turns off the light. I wish you could set the snooze so that the light stayed on because it won't come on again. Also, the snooze doesn't always work. I have mine set for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes I can hear a little "click" that I assume means the alarm would like to sound but it doesn't, instead the alarm will finally go off after an additional 10 minutes. Frustrating. The technology behind this clock is great. I love when it works and I wake up to a "sun-lit" bedroom to the sound of birds gently chirping but I just don't trust the thing. I'm going to spend a little more money and get one that works 100% of the time.
Rating: 3 stars