It's got an auxiliary jack for other audio inputs, a nice little OLED screen to display the time and track information, and of course comes with a nice enough remote control. But $550 seems like a sort of outrageous price for such pedestrian technology, fancy package or not. It'll be available soon, if you're a gazillionaire who likes shiny things. [Oh Gizmo!]

The hour is displayed on the left with the ticker moving away from it as the minutes go on. Although this clock was also designed to look like an old radio tuner, it doesn't actually function as one. This sucks—at least let me enjoy some booty-shaking music as I depressingly watch my life tick by! [Yanko via DVice]

SI mentions the fact that it has an iPod/iPhone remote, and that its alarm can co-exist with iPhone/iPod alarms; I don't believe that's a first, but it's a good thing to hear. By the looks of it, that iPod dock slides out, too, a nice thing for those who might not care for iStuff. If the round face hasn't tipped you off already, it's also a CD player with MP3-CD playback, and it has a line in, in case you still want to patch in your 120GB Zune. What? Sony still makes MP3 players? Huh. [Sony Insider via iPodNN]

That 256MB gives you about 10 hours of radio recording, or you can transfer music to it from a PC and it even functions as a voice-recorder. The radio itself has a digital alarm clock, 400 presets and can receive NOAA weather band info, and two-way marine, aviation and ham radio broadcasts. So, despite looks that may appeal more to your Dad than yourself, it's pretty feature-packed. Which might be why it's available for a seemingly-large $179.95. [Hammacher via Book of Joe]

Product Page [Via uberreview]

Our first impression was favorable, admiring its beautiful appearance with its clean well-rounded lines, black-and-white design and a blue-backlit white-numbered LCD display that looks like it belongs on the flight deck of a UFO. This is a clock radio with an iPod dock, so we plugged our iPod nano into it and took it into the official Gizmodo bedroom for a hands-on sleep test.

As a clock radio, it has a few features that are extremely important to us and anyone who values tranquility in the bedroom. For one, the backlight on the display can dim all the way down to a barely visible level. This means you won't be getting any clock radio light in your face when you're trying to sleep. That's really important to some people who demand total darkness in the sleeping space.

Just like the display, the volume fades down when its sleep switch reaches the end of its designated time, and fades back up the next morning. The result is that music is never abruptly pulled out from under you, nor does it jar you awake.

We're not big fans of FM radio around here, but the stations that we attempted to tune in with this radio revealed its rather weak reception. We have other radios we've tested here that receive most stations clearly, where the Luna had to struggle with noise and interference. If you're looking for a high-quality radio, you might want to look elsewhere.

Another weakness is the operating system. It's too hard to adjust settings on this clock radio. The multifunction knobs are supposed to be user-friendly, but they're not. Each of the four chrome control knobs has a push-down menu system that takes some getting used to. Plus, as you turn the knobs, there are click stops, but nothing happens to the levels you're adjusting with each click. Sometimes it takes two clicks for the level to change, sometimes three. Not good.

The saving grace of this awkward operating system is the slim, gorgeous remote control that matches the radio. Although it's one of those remotes that must be pointed directly at the radio for it to work, it gives you most of the control you need right in the palm of your hand, letting you turn on and off alarms 1 and 2, set the sleep switch, and control the iPod's transport as well as volume on the radio or iPod sections.

Finally, even though the Luna has two small speakers up front, the sound is very good, and just one notch short of excellent. Of course, with speakers this small, there's not a tremendous amount of bass, but the overall presence of the sound and crisp highs give its tonal and spatial quality almost a 3D effect. Yeah, we were quite impressed with the sound quality of this audio system.

There's nothing revolutionary about the Luna, but the bottom line is that it acts as a good citizen in the bedroom. Once you have your routine settings out of the way, it fades its volume up and down and keeps its display dark enough for even the most finicky sleepers. As long as you use the remote rather than its goofy menu system, controlling the Luna is a simple undertaking, just what a bleary-eyed sleeper needs. Plus, it cranks out powerful sound that's better than most of the compressed audio tracks most iPods are capable of delivering.

Although we have mixed feelings about the beautiful Luna, we would still invite it into our bedroom, and look forward to its charms with great anticipation. – Charlie White

Product Page [Xtreme Accessories, LLC]

But before you go ahead and throw out your trusty bedside friends, we want you to know that Sony PR has not returned our emails as to whether or not the cladio is capable of showing times other than their proprietary noon and midnight hours. Should this problem indeed exist, numerous subsequent firmware updates will may probably won't fix the issue. – Mark Wilson

Music − it soothes the soul and enriches our lives. It's something that's an inherent part of our lives. But the audio systems around us which we use to play beautiful, enjoyable music on have no soul − they're just machines.

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We'd like this a lot better if that remote control were backlit, considering that this will be used in a dark bedroom and all, and then we were wondering how dimmable that blue LCD display is. If someone would just make a radio with a backlit remote and a completely dimmable display, along with Wi-Fi streaming and Sirius radio support, we'd be all over it. – Charlie White

Product Page [ezGear, via shiny shiny]

The Luna has some excellent features, and compares favorably with the more-expensive $400 Roku SoundBridge Radio which has the greater capability of letting you access Internet radio stations and music on any computer on your network, but can't play any files with iPod DRM. The $150 Luna has a lot more customization features, and might be worth a look if you can wait until it ships on December 18. – Charlie White

Product Page [Xtreme Accessories, LLC]

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