Product review (5 stars): Perfect Family Addition--It works Hard every day for us!!
We purchased this Emerson Ice Maker at an actual brick and mortar Target store--AFTER reading these excellent reviews on Amazon.com.
We needed it THAT day, and did not want to wait for shipping time.
However, I must admit, I never even knew that an appliance like this was in existence before seeing it on Amazon.

My husband's job keeps him outside all day in the summer, and he was "buying" two large bags of ice daily for his cooler, so that he can have necessary cold water bottles in the heat. Now I make him ice at home, not only saving money at the convenience store, but with much less hassle.

I have encountered a couple of the same "issues" as other reviewers and have this short solution:

1) If you are in a hurry, (altho this is not stated in the owner's manual), when the basket fills with ice before I get to it to take the ice out, and the red ICE sensor light comes on---just take the ice out (I store mine in zip loc bags in the other freezer)---and just touch the silver colored 1-inch long "cold sensor" with your thumb, and it warms it enough for it to immediately go back into the making ice cycle.

2) About the low water signal--I just try to keep pouring water into it periodically, and keep the reservoir filled or semi-filled, so it does not stop making ice (with the red low water signal). It sits on my countertop between the microwave and the dish drainer, so it is no problem as I walk by it to glance over and see what is going on.
This unit makes at least TWO huge bags of ice in a day for me. (I transfer the smaller batches of ice to a big blue "Large" Zip-Loc 15" X 15" bag with handles, and then put it into the other freezer to "harden" and save.)

3)  We do NOT feel that it is noisy as some have commented.  However, our kitchen/living room is a fairly large area, but still--my home Whirlpool side-by-side frig/freezer makes more noise than this little unit.

The shape of the pieces of ice are just like some that you find at Hotel ice makers--partially an egg shape, with a long cylinder hole in the middle. (By the way--our German Shepherd dog prefers these ice cubes to the other ones the Whirlpool freezer makes at home!!) It is a great shape, and seems to keep frozen for quite a while--Our two large bags stay frozen for over 14 hours on the job--in the sun--in 90-plus degree heat in just a standard cooler (NOT a 5-day cooler).

We LOVE this little family friend, and feel that we will make back the money that we invested in it THIS year--based on the amount of commercial ice we HAD been purchasing every summer.

So, we would HIGHLY recommend this very SIMPLE unit.  Not complicated at all.  It's one of those things that I said, "Why did I not think about inventing this???

Hope you enjoy yours also as well!!!