Each morning when I am jarred out of a sound sleep I struggle with the choice of just hitting the snooze button or slamming my enraged fist against my alarm.
If I had one of these however I'd be the one pounding the headboard instead of my girlfriend..
Not quite good enough for me yet. I need a 400lb coffee making gorilla with a football helmet on to pick me up out of bed and throw me out the door in the morning in order to get to work on time.
Do you mean hammock on a beach? Because otherwise I'd take it to mean you wanna be sand-buried with just your head sticking out (also quite relaxing though) /grammarnazi
That looks pretty freaking cool, but why not just use the iPhone's built in stereo bluetooth streaming ability coupled with a specially developed app instead of some clunky add on? Why not just make a charging stand to use it like a alarm like that other stand you all covered a while ago? I just don't see the point in the iPhone attachment as is. It seems to me like Yamaha kind of missed the inherit strength of a platform like the iPhone?
@badhatharry: No no, you both kind of missed the point I was trying to make. These speaker deals that Yamaha does are extremely functional and aesthetically beautiful IMO, but they're too big to sit on a sensibly sized night stand and haven't progressed much for that matter since they were initially designed and introduced...
Why not make a smaller satellite base to charge the iPhone and act as a kickstand that makes your iPhone into a stand alone alarm clock, while also connecting the whole deal to the speaker for music output through a elegant software solution and the already included stereo bluetooth? Quickly glancing at just the picture, I thought that that was just what it was... Imagine using your iPhone/iPod Touch as a visual remote (like one of those screen based harmony remotes connected to a Media PC) to play/shuffle/arrange the music coming out of the speaker without ever having to actually connect it to the speaker base, OR by attaching some horribly designed clunky dongle?
They need a more than just hardware now, they also need an elegant SOFTWARE solution to marry this hardware to IMO to get people to buy just another new iPod speaker, which many manufacturers in this area haven't really thought to do yet... Take it beyond the hardware, you're already half way there Yamaha! The iPhones and iPod Touches of the world are more than just iPods now!
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@iomatic: It could connect to a Sony server to get weather and news. Also an automatic alarm for dangerous weather would be nice, especially for people who live in tornado alley.
@Tank: I'm not sure I'd be so reliant on that. We have a Sony clock/radio that is supposed to be self-setting using some OTA protocol but it's NEVER set itself to the right time. It's always a good 12 minutes or so fast.
This looks pretty nice actually. I mean, who DOESN'T want an alarm with a nice sized color screen and stuff. Seriously, I would go spend $200 on this if I had the money.
@Brett Benedict: Oh no, I'm not equating them it's just the way things shook out for me. I have an older dumb phone with an expired contract and a 5th gen Ipod that only holds a charge for a couple hours playing music.
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If I had one of these however I'd be the one pounding the headboard instead of my girlfriend..
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Because my dream alarm clock, besides having magical abilities of finding out the best moment to ... will also gently do so with a nice back rub.
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Well, that and Pegasus.
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Do you mean hammock on a beach? Because otherwise I'd take it to mean you wanna be sand-buried with just your head sticking out (also quite relaxing though) /grammarnazi
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@Kaiser-Machead: I appreciate the reference and FLW is badass...but have you seen a Wright building? I
mean I guess it is white and round...
What, what in god's name is a kruller?
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@i_pooped_on_: #milkywayalarmclock
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…You can read it first thing in the morning without reaching for your glasses first.
:-P #chumbyone
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Using that on their homepage alone makes me want to get one all the more now.
This could be a definite maybe purchase in my near future. #chumbyone
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Why not make a smaller satellite base to charge the iPhone and act as a kickstand that makes your iPhone into a stand alone alarm clock, while also connecting the whole deal to the speaker for music output through a elegant software solution and the already included stereo bluetooth? Quickly glancing at just the picture, I thought that that was just what it was... Imagine using your iPhone/iPod Touch as a visual remote (like one of those screen based harmony remotes connected to a Media PC) to play/shuffle/arrange the music coming out of the speaker without ever having to actually connect it to the speaker base, OR by attaching some horribly designed clunky dongle?
They need a more than just hardware now, they also need an elegant SOFTWARE solution to marry this hardware to IMO to get people to buy just another new iPod speaker, which many manufacturers in this area haven't really thought to do yet... Take it beyond the hardware, you're already half way there Yamaha! The iPhones and iPod Touches of the world are more than just iPods now!
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I think you can see where this is headed-- this could get complicated very fast, though I agree with you, I want the news and weather, dammit!
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