Chaney Instruments Touch Screen Travel Alarm Clock

 (3 customer reviews)

This looked like a good idea at first. Build an easy-to-use intuitive touch screen travel alarm clock for under $15. NO instructions necessary.

In practice, I've seen a few issues with this clock and am going to return it or use it as a backup clock only. There are too many functions available on the main screen in touch mode that are critical and easy to reset in the dark - (more below)

Pros
- Every setting is touch screen. This is very convenient and it makes a great first impression. It's intuitive. Setting the alarm is easy. The time/date auto-sets itself (amazing)

Cons
- The alarm "off" hotspot is in the upper right of the screen. If you hit the wrong "hotspot" (easy to do in the dark), you may only engage "snooze". The initial wakeup sound is more like multiple, soft chirps. The 5-7 minute later snooze wakeup is loud and maybe wifey doesn't know how to shut if off and runs into the bathroom ready to strangle you.

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Light and slight. The whole thing is touch screen and uses a pen to touch the screen. Lose the pen and your screwed. Also the light only stays on for a second and if the angle isnt right on the screen you cant see anything.

Don't bother!

Although this clock has many nifty features, it suffers
from an amazing leap of stupidity: the clock is impossible
to operate in the dark! It has NO mechanical controls.
All clock controls are operated by tapping a stylus in the
LCD front panel. Like turning off the alarm. But the LCD
is impossible to see in the dark! And what if you've lost
your stylus in the dark! What if your spouse just wants
to turn off that annoying alarm that has gone off at the
wrong time? Impossible to do in the dark, and impossible
to do if they haven't read the directions.