![]() Some of these are unlikely choices for a calming moment or two, but it’s a fun few moments skipping through the crazier ones which are presumably intended as alarm noises. There are, inevitably, some more left-field noises, including Goats and Osprey (inexplicably), Cafe (which sounds like a raucous city centre cafe), Steam Train (Hogwarts express meets Waterloo in rush hour), and Thunderstorm (the sound of an full-on storm right overhead). ![]() The speaker quality is fine as an alarm clock and occasional radio, but we’re not talking premium audio by any means. Other sources are preloaded, including birdsong, waves, white noise and crickets at night. The FM radio can store five presets, just like in the 90s, and can also be used as a sunset or sunrise audio source. A tap on the top lights the LCD screen briefly to check the time, and the default level of that screen is set gloriously low (it auto-dims based on ambient light), so no dazzling night-time displays here. Beyond that it’s a fairly basic alarm clock, with no radio or dual alarms, but that also makes it simple to use. That said, once you have navigated the options and run the ‘sunrise’ and ‘sunset’ routines a few times, you’ll iron out any kinks pretty easily, ending up with a cheerful little sleep tool. The Clocky is a battery operated (4 x AAA) alarm clock with one main trick: getting you out of bed, instead of letting you snooze until you’re late for work. (For example, not fading the audio in sync with the light might make perfect sense if you were listening to an audiobook for example, but with only FM radio here, that’s an unlikely scenario.) ![]() In short, the longer you play with the Lumie Bodyclock Shine 300, the more the UI seems to have been borrowed from a much more complex alarm clock/light, with dependencies that seemingly make little sense in this device. Triggering the sunset (bottom right) then counts down the duration, fading the light, but not fading the audio unless you selected ‘fade’ in the volume too. For example, to set a ‘sunset’ requires setting a duration (15–90 min), a nightlight option (which controls the light level at which the sequence will finish and remain on for the rest of the night) sound type, track and volume. Setup is a complicated business, even once you’ve managed to work out which of the three rocker controls does what, and navigating the exact detail of your wakeup or sunset snooze is surprisingly complex.
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