Product review (2 stars): Hope this helps
Bought new from Target on sale for around a hundred. Makes ice well and quickly. The water fills in a small tray and 8 prongs dip into the tray and the water freezes around the prongs to the size you choose. The excess water in the tray dumps into a channel down to the water holding area. (So the water is not actually dumped back over the cubes) Then the cubes fall off the prongs into the storage tray. My unit doesn't actually keep my ice frozen. The cubes on the top are fine but the bottom cubes closest to the water holding area begin to melt which creates a lot of water on the ice which makes it a problem to transfer the ice to your actual fridge/freezer because once you put them into your freezer they become a solid mess from all the water. Would be okay for a party but I would not use this everyday which is why I bought it since we go through more ice then my freezer can produce. The ice formed shape is the same as the other Emerson portable ice maker photos here I believe it was the IM90 model. I'm on my mobile so it won't let me add my own photos.