Wake up to the Philips PSS110 MP3-playing alarm clock
We heard about it in January at CES, but finally have some info on what Philips is doing to answer our call: why no decked clocks? Their new MP3 and WMA-playing PSS110 clock has 256MB of flash memory—more than enough room to fit Missy E's "Wake Up" (or Simon & Garfunkel, if you're down). You should be able to pick one up in April for about $160.
[Via DigitalMediaThoughts]
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Household
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
r3m0 @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
the nokia 6230 works fine for me
http://www.engadget.com/entry/4722831173005838/
mike @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
that is extremely cool! very very nice..it's hard to guage how big it is from the pic..
KSB @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
haha looks like a mixture of a apple product and JBL creature speakers
TheDougStone @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Get a Slim Devices Squeezebox for $200 and have wireless access to all of your music - and an alarm clock. With add-ins (free) you can also wake up to RSS feeds.
schtum @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
The trouble with waking up to a song is that you very quickly learn to hate it. I keep iTunes on random and use Windows Task Scheduler to play a short (couple of seconds), quiet (silent would be optimal) track every morning. I'm woken up by the next song, chosen randomly from my 15GB collection. The 256MB on this machine is too limiting.
Two caveats:
1. Task Scheduler is not so reliable. It fails once a month for no apparant reason. Not acceptable for most.
2. Not everyone has a computer in their bedroom. This machine might be attractive in that case, but I'd prefer something with more storage or, better yet, an SD slot. Best of all would be an iPod speaker dock/charger with an alarm function (this may exist, I don't own an iPod so I haven't looked).
Gary Scheffen @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Off topic a bit, but I want a clock radio dock for smart phones/pda's...Example: When my treo sends a certain tone I want the dock to turn on a built in radio or on a different tone turn on an amp that will let the treo play mp3s. I have to get up at different times each week day so I'd love the advanced scheduling features of a Palm.
Logich @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
I had been looking for a system like this for a few years, but finally got tired of waiting and built one.
I use $25 passive white speakers, Sony SRS-P11Q, connected to the line out of 4G a docked ipod.
With the alarm sound set to my "wake up" play list and the calendar sync'd to my Exchange calendar (with ipodsync), this is my best effort at a alarm clock for a variable non-repeating schedule.
Arpad @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
#4 are there any lower-priced wireless alternatives to the squeezebox?
The wireless version of the squeezebox is $280... For that much money, I'd buy a Bose Sounddock and get good sound quality too...
Billy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
hey it does not have to be used as an alarm clock
it could be used when your at work/school and need some music played out aloud in good quality