A few examples that I point out to interested friends:ġ) The display auto-dims with the ambient light, preventing the room from being lit-up at night, keeping you awake.Ģ) The alarm clock gets slowly louder & louder (and very slowly, I might add, unlike some other alarms I've had), very gently easing you back to consciousness.ģ) Similarly, when turning it off it does about a 1-second dim-to-half-volume before turning off.

While I do agree that the button placement sucks (and also that I'm having some very mild tracking problems with my Wave Radio), I have also thought that the Wave Radio was a fine example of consumer-minded engineering. Mark Hurst (mark at goodexperience dot com) Thanks to everyone who has sent in additions to the site. This is the 100th post on This Is Broken. If I was hitting the volume button, the presets, or even the AM/FM switch, I would still at least be hearing something to wake me up. Seems like it would be easy to enough to move these two buttons further from the snooze button. My boss is starting to think it's not so funny anymore. Of course, I immediately fall back to sleep, then awake to a panic when I see what time it's gotten to be. On more than one occasion, when I've hit what I think is the 'snooze' button, I've been a few millimeters off and accidentally turned off the alarm. Now, as someone who regularly relies on the snooze button to ease my way into wakefulness, the proximity of these buttons has caused some problems. Since I don't have a second set, the result is silence. However, as shown in the picture, directly above the large snooze button there are three smaller buttons, two of which (the ones marked 'On/Off' and 'Aux') actually turn off the alarm altogether! As far as I can tell, the 'Aux' button is meant to redirect the sound to a secondary set of speakers.

The sound is great, and it's generally easy to use. I have one of those much-advertised Bose clock radios that I use to wake up in the morning. Beth Hondl writes: This is a little thing, but it could cost me my job.

Bose internet radio clock alarm