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Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock is a sleek and stylish alarm clock, plus it offers plenty of wake-up options and won’t stop working in a power outage.
Philips has made a number of great light alarm clocks over the years, but perhaps the best to date is the Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock. The clock is well-designed and stylish, plus it boasts a number of great features to help you both get to sleep and wake up in the morning.
When you’re trying to get to sleep, the Philips light clock will help by showing dimming sunset colors and related sounds. Then, before it’s time to wake up, it’ll gradually fade in a representation of natural light, along with one of five calming wake-up sounds, including birds, Zen garden, a gentle piano, and more.
If you’d prefer, you can even tell the device to instead fade in the FM radio, and there’s a tap to snooze feature in case it’s still not time to wake up.
Plenty of us have experienced the dread of an alarm clock failing to wake us up because of a power outage, but Philips addresses that issue too with its built-in battery that lasts eight hours before it runs out of juice.
Plenty of shoppers love the Philips light clock — after all, it has a 4.1-star average on Amazon — but it’s not perfect. For starters, it’s a little expensive, plus despite having a speaker, you can’t connect to it through Bluetooth to play music from your phone as an alarm.
Pros: Well-designed, easy to use, plenty of wake-up options
Cons: Expensive, no Bluetooth support
Buy the Philips Wake-Up Light Alarm Clock on Amazon for $138.99)