Moshi Interactive Voice Recognition Travel Alarm Clock White

I purchased this item with not the highest expectations. Basically I wanted to get my brother a cool travel alarm clock with some kind of new technology. I figured if there was any kind of voice activation feature, great, but really I just wanted to get him something cheap and interesting and this seemed to be a good fit.

First thing I noticed: it's a lot tinier than I expected! Fits in the palm of your hand.
Second: as long as you speak clearly, the voice activation works great and is very intuitive! I even heard him moan 'shut off' one morning when it went off and even though I thought he was barely legible, it worked.

He's extremely happy with the present, and I am too.

PS- the alarm sounds are, um, interesting (read: bizarre choices), but certainly effective. I like the bells.

I talked to it some on the first day and that is it. That day it got the time right, but refused to get the alarm time right despite several repetitions and a quiet background. Fortunately there are +, -, and set buttons on the bottom for manual entry. But they are SO convenient compared to the voice that if I want to change the alarm time I Always do so that way. Some of it's mistakes were bizzare too. It is supposed to default to AM if you don't specify, so why would it set the alarm for pm if I did not say anything about that? So why have the voice input?

Another thing is it only accepts voice input when the nightlight/snooze button is pressed or supposedly at the end of the alarm sounding. I have never gotten the latter to work over the sound of the repeating alarm. Among other thing this means you can't set the clock from across the room since you must first hit the button. Want to do 2 commands, hit it again. The snooze button will give you 9 more minutes...Read more

PROS:
VOICE RECOGNITION, LIT DISPLAY, 3 ALARM CHIMES, ASCENDING ALARM (GRADUALLY GETS LOUDER), 4 COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM, DECENT PRICE

CONS:
NO CASE INCLUDED - DISPLAY COULD GET SCRATCHED EASILY, ALTHOUGH SMALL IT'S STILL BULKY FOR TRAVEL, A BETTER DESIGN FOR TRAVEL WOULD BE A COMPACT FLIP DESIGN OR SMALLER SIZE WITH CASE

COMMENTS:
I TRAVEL EVERY OTHER WEEK OR MORE. I WILL NOT BRING IT WITH ME WHEN I TRAVEL BECAUSE IT IS STILL BULKY FOR IT'S SIZE FOR TRAVEL. THIS IS A GREAT BEDSIDE ALARM CLOCK THAT IS EXCELLENT FOR HOME USE!

---VIRGINIA, ROAD WARRIOR & GADGET GIRL