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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1K8FW2PNL2FO4 If ever there was a product that cried out for an Amazon video review, it's Clocky. (Sorry for all the jiggling around. I don't know if you can see from the video, but it's made pretty well and seems sturdy.I bought it for my sister who thinks it's cute during the day but doesn't like chasing it in the morning.
It sounds like R2 D2 from Star Wars, and after the first time you hit the snooze alarm it jumps off the table or nightstand and runs around the room a beepin' and a flashin'. This makes a cute gift for the person who has everything but likes to sleep. This thing is so much fun to play with.
I tried to capture her on video, chasing clock in a real live morning situation, but her words were "unkind" and not suitable for an Amazon review. You can see it works pretty well on the carpeting and it moves even faster on our tile floors. It can jump down from up to 3 feet without killing itself which is more than you need for most nightstands.
I hope this video gives you a better idea of how cute this thing is. I really have to get a camera with some kind of stabilization feature).
- As another reviewer said, be nice if the alarm were louder.Net:I bought it cheap (elsewhere), and it's amusing even though it doesn't do the job, so I'll keep it and give it two stars instead of one star.PS - The design error is that the clock body should be offset farther beneath the axle. I'd like 'off' to be harder to achieve than 'snooze'.
Doesn't happen. Good:- The basic idea is interesting and amusing.- The alarm sound is more entertaining than the usual.- You can set the snooze interval.- It has a 'game' mode - you can make it attempt to run around the room with its wheels.Bad:- The box says "the clock that runs away." Good idea.
Net result: the clock is sitting on the floor next to my bed, acting loony, and it's almost as easy to grab and turn off as a regular clock, without my needing to wake up.- In my sleep, I don't carefully differentiate between 'off' and 'snooze'. I have a soft carpet (it's not shag or anything, just new).
With my carpet, the clock is able to roll off my nightstand but then cannot do more than twitch around in place, where it falls -- the clock wheels sink in a tiny amount and the clock body ends up going around and around, instead of the wheels going around and going somewhere. On this clock, it's no harder to hit the 'off' button than the 'snooze' button.
Maybe the design engineers had bare-wood bedroom floors at home.
We purchased this clock as a Christmas gift for my daughter who just can't get up in the morning. Just what she needed to get up in the morning, except when she forgets to turn the alarm on. She hasn't had an alarm clock loud enough to wake her and therefore she would go back to sleep and be late for school most of the time. This alarm clock is VERY loud and VERY annoying and it also rolls itself off the table so you just can't reach over and hit snooze all the time. For myself, this clock is too much but perfect for a person who can't get up to a regular alarm clock. Only gave this 4 stars because I feel the price is high for an alarm clock even if it does roll around the room.
My daughter slept through every alarm clock I ever found. Clocky wakes her up every time. And she has to stay up to catch him. One of the best inventions EVER.
Great for people who oversleep and do not respond to regular alarm clock Problem for apartment dwellers as it is very loud and annoying and can be heard through to adjacent apartment.
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