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American Innovative Neverlate Executive Alarm Clock | 
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| Brand: American Innovative
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $59.99
New (3) from $59.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 1022
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 24 hours
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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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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 12 more reviews...
 A good clock, one flaw November 21, 2008
This is the alarm clock I had been waiting for! It allows two alarms to be set for every day of the week, and up to seven alarms that will go off every day. As someone who likes to sleep in as dark of an environment as possible, the ability to set the backlight to be completely off is a very nice feature (you can still see the time in the middle of the night by hitting snooze, which turns the display on for 10 seconds).
The one serious flaw of this clock is that it locks up if you hold the on/off button down for too long when an alarm has gone off. This isn't hard to do considering how sometimes I fumble for the button in a groggy stupor. Resetting the clock is a pain--you have to unplug it, remove the battery, then reset ALL of your alarms. The clock has a USB port--too bad it doesn't allow a firmware update to fix bugs.
Overall, though, I only lock the clock up once every two months or so, so it's a bug I can live with to get such a good clock.
Suggestions for future improvements:
* Allow firmware updates via the USB port
* Offer the clock in more than one color
 Thought it would be great, but it's not November 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was really excited by the press releases about this clock, and put myself on the mailing list to be notified when it entered production. I asked for one for Christmas and got it.
It's not that great.
1. Sometimes the clock "crashes" and locks up. If you press a button the wrong way, press too many buttons at once, or maybe do nothing at all, it just stops working. It displays the same time forever and none of the buttons do anything. Not very reliable if you depend on this thing to wake you up for important meetings, etc. You have to take the battery out and unplug it to get it to reset, and then do all the settings over again. I've had to do this three times so far.
2. You can't read the screen unless it is below eye level. It just appears as a glowing blue box. So you can't put it on a dresser, shelf, or anything else higher than your mattress. You can put it on the floor...
3. Although it has 4 "ring tones", there's not much difference between them. Would you prefer a "beep-beep" or a "beep-beep"? I thought it would have a variety of different sounds. I'm sick of being startled awake by a screeching alarm, but the annoying beep isn't much of an improvement.
It seems like the internal connections are intermittent, too. If I press on the top surface the display glitches and shows alarm settings and stuff, even though I'm not pressing any buttons.
The daily alarms are nice, but it takes so long to set them all up again when it crashes, I've just gotten used to having the same alarm every day.
Nearly perfect clock radio November 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Somehow the designers forgot to build in a daylight savings time switch but other than that this clock radio is incredibly customizable in every detail.
As for the radio, I happen to be in a lousy signal area but have no problem picking up stations with it's digital tuner.
You're going to need the owner's manual and need good eyes or a magnifying glass to read it. Or as I did, download the manual from their web site.
Not a good product!!!! October 23, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am really dissapointed in this product. I did so much research and ended up with this crappy product. First of all the item is not reliable, the alarm does not always go off when set. Secondly the display flashes and goes haywire often. The alarm sounds after I get up and turn off the alarm. I cannot tell you how many times it goes off after I am in the shower. The plug does not charge my ipod as it should. The controls/buttons are confusing and not intuitive at all. The turn dial on top is difficult to operate. To set a time for the alarm to go off you must use the bottom ring which is more difficult to adjust while the upper ring is easier and wasted on the day which is only seven options and easier to navigate. The buttons are poorly planned for example to use the seek scan adjustment minus is on the left side and plus is on the right. For volume plus is on the left and minus is on the right, this makes no sense. Parts of the item are made of cheap plastic and the light from the front display glows through the plastic. The alarm is not loud enough to wake me up.
Bottom line is that this is a poor product that was not well thought out or planned for a large price.
 Bad color October 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I ordered this from this website and they sent me the white one which is labeled "kitchen" style on the amazon receipt.
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