Emerson SmartSet Dual Alarm AM/FM Clock Radio

by Emerson

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.2 x 6 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• ASIN: B001U5XLF0
• Item model number: CKS3518
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,769 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 1, 2003

Product Description

Emerson SmartSet Dual Alarm AM/FM Clock Radio CKS3518 Clocks

Customer Reviews

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clock Radio Review, December 28, 2009

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Karen J. Kramer (Mesa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This clock radio is great! I love being able to set the alarm for my M-F workweek and not worry about having to make any changes on the weekend. The time projection is fabulous! I loved it so much I bought my mom one for Christmas and sent it to her in Florida. She loves it so much that I am going to purchase another one for her place in Illinois so she doesn't have to take one back and forth between her summer/spring place and her fall/winter place. My only complaint would be that the snooze is too close to the bar behind it and I have on a couple of occasions hit the wrong one and overslept!

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, January 24, 2010

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Kevin Johnson "melbourne" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This product is great.. I like how the projection clock stays on all night, some clocks only stay on for alittle bit then they turn off... And the lighting isnt to bright, like some clocks... Thanks

43 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty cool, May 23, 2011

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mrxak - See all my reviews

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I just needed a new alarm clock. My old one seemed to be somehow outside of normal space-time and was accelerating at an increasing rate. Fearing that perhaps it was cursed, and also accelerating the time of my death, I unplugged it and figured I'd buy a new one somewhere. Selection is limited in the real world, so I turned to the virtual world of Amazon.com. Mainly, I knew I wanted something more reliable, and not containing any evil spirits. Amazon has a lot of alarm clocks. Tons, in fact. So why did I choose this one? Well, it's been my experience that there are two kinds of alarm clocks. Those with green screens, that undoubtably feature a back, forward, and fast-forward button for setting the time, and those with red screens, that undoubtably feature separate buttons for hours and minutes. Well, this clock is different. It has an orange screen, and it sets the time with magic. Instead of a cursed soul haunting your alarm clock, driving you slowly mad with an accelerating time warp, you get a friendly, helpful spirit, perhaps from an enchanted forest, that loves you, simply requests you input your timezone, and then it takes care of the rest. The clock features two alarms, which is twice as many alarms as many evil clocks, and you set them through the power of holding down a button for while. A plus or minus button.

The clock has a great many features to it, but I think the main thing when buying an alarm clock is not whether it has an aux in, or eleven buttons. The purpose of an alarm clock is to be a clock, and to alarm you into waking up at the appointed hour. Well, there are no disappointments here. The clock has two displays, one projected to your ceiling, and one on the clock face that you'll never look at because now you can look at the ceiling to tell time and that's somehow better. I suspect the friendly wood sprite enclosed in the device is actually gazing upwards at the sky, through your very roof, and then casts its spell on your ceiling to display, in numerical form, what *it* sees. The alarm itself is remarkably gentle. It starts at a low volume, and increases slowly enough as to not cause a cardiac event, instead slowly rousing your attention from your slumber. Again, the benevolence of this clock is apparent. The alarms, as many of them as there are, can also be configured based on the day of the week. Indeed, the clock fairy knows the date, and when your workdays are. What's more, there's no having to remember to turn your alarm on. Turning the alarm off Monday morning just means the noise stops. You don't have to do anything at all, and it'll still go off again on Tuesday.

I don't get a terribly good FM signal from this clock, but I prefer the beeping alarm over a radio alarm anyway. I didn't get a good FM signal from my previous alarm clock either, so it could just be me. The clock is also quite large. I guess so it has a nice big screen for you to never look at since the novelty of the time projected on the ceiling never goes away. I would have preferred something smaller, but it's not really a big deal if you have a bigger side table. Overall, the clock face is bright enough to be easily visible, though not so bright as to be a nuisance when trying to sleep. It's got a dimmer switch, anyway. The projected time may not be easily visible on your ceiling when it's bright in your bedroom, so it's more of a thing to stare at when you're lying in bed at 3AM with insomnia, wondering if it's you that's cursed, not your previous alarm clock. If you like to sleep until noon on weekends, you may have go through the woefully obsolete motion of turning your neck to see the time. I should point out that while the time projector display can be flipped upside down, it can't be rotated. It's not actually possible to have the alarm clock facing you, while at the same time the time is displayed in perfect readable format above your head. I guess people are supposed to have their alarm clocks facing their feet, not their heads. I leave the clock facing me, and just turn my head a bit sideways in bed.

Anyway, this is without a doubt the most technologically advanced alarm clock I've ever used, and you can tell a lot of attention went into making it hard to oversleep accidentally. If you have power outages sometimes in the middle of the night, forget to turn your alarm back on for the next morning, have a cursed chronometer, or fear the cumulative shocks to the heart every time your existing alarm clock goes off, this alarm clock is probably for you.

Sleep well, my friends.