American Innovative Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock | 
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| Brand: American Innovative
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $59.95
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 2105
Color: White with light grey base and trim.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 5 x 5 x 5
Declining Snooze Option
12 hour / 24 hour Modes and U.S. or Euro Calendar Display
Battery Backup (1x CR2032 button-cell battery, included)
1/8" Audio Input
Headphone Jack (1/8" Sterio)
MPN: NL7DEX-US
Model: NL7DEX-US
UPC: 860078000049
EAN: 0860078000049
ASIN: B0010DX8MI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Incredibly customizable: from the duration of the snooze to the brightness of the LCD backlighting, nearly every feature can be adjusted to suit your personal preference. | | • | Designed to be easy to set: a simple twist of the patent- pending rotary dial makes complicated push-buttons a thing of the past. | | • | Two 7-day banks provide two, completely independent seven-day wake schedules - his and hers, for example. | | • | Other features include: descending snooze, up to 7 daily reminder alarms, calendar display, flexible inputs and outputs, ac powered with battery backup | | • | Choose your wakeup sound: wake to NPR news at 7:00am weekdays, a morning talk show on a different station on Saturday, and the buzzer on Sunday (there's no other clock radio in the world with this capability) |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The Neverlate Executive is simply the most flexible alarm clock ever made. Dual 7-day schedules ("his & hers" if you will) plus a bank of "daily reminder" alarms accommodate any morning routine. Everything from the backlight brightness to the alarm duration is customizable. Any of the 20 station presets and 4 buzzer tones can be linked to each alarm - wake up to the buzzer Mon-Fri and NPR on the weekends. The long-awaited successor to the original Neverlate 7-day Alarm Clock, the Executive does not lack for new and exciting features.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 19 more reviews...
 Clock for Irregular Wake Times January 7, 2009
This is the clock for students and professors! If you have a class schedule that requires different wake up hours each day, this is a must have!
You can set the clock for 8:00 on Monday, 9:00 on Tuesday, 7:00 on Wednesday -- you get the picture. The setup takes getting use to. There is a inner knob for the day of the week, Then you rotate the outer knob to set the time.
If you had used the earlier model, you found the station tuner was analog and a bit hard to use. The digital tuner is much more friendly. Also, the LCD panel is much brighter and easier to read.
 very pleased with this item December 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was bought and given as a Christmas gift. The person who it was given to said that it has worked wonderfully so far and has every gadget and setting and anything you could think of. They were very pleased with the multiple ways of setting the alarm.
 Overpromises and Underdelivers December 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was so excited about the potential of this clock, because for years I had wanted one that offered gradual wake features, plus options other than the annoying screeching beep that most other alarms offer.
Unfortunately, as one poster thoroughly summarized, the many good features of this clock are balanced by the many shortcomings. And for me, those shortcomings were just too much to offset how cool this clock really is. Overall I'd say this: if you're the type who puts the alarm clock across the room so you have to walk over to shut it off, it might work for you. But for next to the bed, it failed for me. Here's why:
1. The value collar at the top. Not only is it too stiff, it clicks loudly when you turn it. When I get into bed late and my wife is sleeping, just setting the alarm wakes her up every time. To go from 7am to 530 am takes about 15 very loud clicks. I love the concept, but it should be smoother and quieter.
2. The brightness - next to the bed, even on the dimmest setting it's too bright. This is a minor annoyance due to the fact that almost every alarm clock out there has this problem. I think they test them only in well-lit labs. But for an innovative clock whose makers thought of so many other features, this is a shortfall.
3. This is the dealbreaker - the volume. I bought this radio primarily for the gradual wake feature, but even at its quietest setting when it comes on, it's much too loud. For a few weeks I even stuffed socks into the speaker compartment at the bottom, which helped, but was just ridiculous. At night when going to sleep, I'd want some very quiet music on a timer to help me fall asleep, but there again it was too loud, and kept my wife and I awake.
One last minor comment: this probably would not be the best alarm for a guest room in your house, because it's a bit complicated to figure out. But if you'll be the one using it every day and you don't mind these negatives, you'll love this clock. Different alarms for all seven days is a great feature (although I don't know anyone who has the same repeating wake schedule every week), and the different alarm sounds are a nice break from the traditional beep.
If American Innovative comes out with a new clock that fixes these issues, I'll sign up. But those interested in the gradual wake feature should check out the Homedics Soundspa, which even controls a lamp on a dimmer and offers pretty good nature sounds to wake you up. I bought that one last week and love it, so my American Innovative went on eBay last night.
Not a Chumby, but still the best alarm clock out there for the money and functionality. December 12, 2008
So far I'm pretty impressed. No native internet radio, but it does have a line in for an mp3 player/iPod, external internet radio device, or other auxiliary audio source. The sleep function will work for the external audio source, but it won't shut off the external device since it's just connected via a standard 3.5mm audio plug.
I've found it to be the best alarm clock I've seen, after spending some time looking at alarm clocks. That said, I'm still surprised that there isn't more innovation in the alarm clock space.
For $50 bones, it's better than wearing out my fingers on the alarm clocks I'd be buying down the road, and it's cheaper than a lot of the other alternatives (though I still want a Chumby :) ).
I did find it a bit confusing to set up at first, and had to re-read the manual regarding the "daily" alarm versus the individual alarm banks. Still, it was easier to set up than other alarm clocks I've used. The USB is apparently 1.0, and doesn't charge my devices, but it does work for a USB powered reading lamp (I'm still looking for a better one of those).
better off with two seperate alarm clocks November 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
We received this as a christmas gift last year b/c myself and my partner have different alarm needs: I wake up immediately after maybe one snooze, he needs several alarm sounds and snoozes for an hour (his previous setup was two alarm clocks and a cell phone alarm). Also, we get up at different times and listen to different radio morning shows. So we really put this clock to the test!
The clock is difficult to learn how to use, not intuitive at all. But we read and learned the directions, so OK whatever. The first week was wonderful, I loved the clock and it did everything it said it would and woke us each up in our own way. However, slowly over 2 months of using it the alarm functions began to go haywire...the buzzer would go off instead of the radio, one alarm would never go off and another would never come back on after a snooze, the volume of the radio became increasingly lower over time (or wa too loud without ever even touching the dial), and probably most annoying of all the clock randomly goes "click-clikclik-clik-clik-clik" loudly and annoyingly at all different times of the day....almost as though it is "recalibrating" itself, except that I know it's a sucky clock that doesn't even function. We are now back to two alarm clocks for him and his cell phone, and my own alarm for me. We use this product now as a single functioning alarm-- the radio alarm (which again with the weird volume issues!)
I'm glad we got this as a gift and didn't waste our own money on it.
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