We reviewed the XtremeMac Luna late last week, and liked it a lot. So it’s very happy making for us to give the news that we will be giving one of these puppies away to a lucky reader. What do you have to do? Be a clever commenter!
The competition is open from now until end of Sunday week (3rd June), and the prize will go to the best comment posted between today and that date. So pull out the thinking caps, cut out the lurking, and show us how insightful you can be with your gadget know how.
And because it is all about the best comment, you can enter as many times as you like! Official competition mumbo jumbo can be found here.
Thanks to the folks at Powermove, local XtremeMac distributors, for offering up the Luna for your iPod alarm clock pleasure.
Neil
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 1:57 PMGreat product, no longer will Hughesy be the first voice I hear every morning.
Adz
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 3:21 PMGreat product?
Except, if your like me and nearly smash your alarm clock to hit the snooze button. I do not want to get in the habit of throwing my iPod across the room, when trying to work out how to turn the racket off thats waking me up.
The snooze button needs to be easily accessed.
I’m a geek so I have dreams of being set free in electronics heaven, seeing all the latest in computers, HD telly’s and other gadgetry. This dream has been disturbed in the past by a clock radio, appearing suddenly on a shelf. I press the snooze button and continue my wanderings in gadget utopia.
Seamus
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 3:35 PMAdz, you should use the remote then — keep the station itself at a safe distance. ;-)
Or use the stepped volume increase to give yourself a more welcome wake up call than just having it scream at you instantly.
Those big metal buttons are pretty easy to slap if you are the slapping type.
Penguinister
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 3:43 PMI read your previous review, it looks like a really nifty product but I have to wonder about trying to find the remote in a teenagers room (or mine).
Seamus
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 4:13 PMGood call, Penguinister. It is well featured remote, but perhaps they should have included a loop point so you could tether it to the bedhead!
Adz
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 4:39 PMOK I like that the big metal button are the snooze button.
But I agree about the remote. I could just see the remote slipping down behind the bed or something. I had enough of that using my mobile as an alarm.
I tell ya it sure wakes you up having to climb right under a king size bed to kill you mobile alarm.
richo2153
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 5:02 PMi thought the big metal buttons were the feet, and it was just designed by a civil engineer, you know the human body designer joke… Who else
would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?
Adz
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 5:21 PMHow loud can a alarm like this be?
If I load Purple Haze as my wake up song (like in Adventures of Ford Fairlane), will it rock the whole house, wake my woman up so I can yell ‘Do the F***in dishes!’?
The wife would have me sleepin in the dog house for the next month!
Patrick Brown
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 6:49 PMif i have to listen to my samsung d600 send the electric sound shock to my brain that it self describes as a “morning call” then i could well have a stroke! Help me Obi-Wan Kizmodo, your my only hope!
Blake
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 8:17 PMIf only the girl I woke up to on Sunday morning looked as good as that. I’m sure it sounds better than her the night before too!
KT
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 8:45 PMI love how the clock display is white, I really think it’s a great idea to not use green or red because it hurts my eyes when I wake up during the night.
Anyway what I love most about this product is that it can be used as an alarm clock and a portable jukebox in conjunction with the iPod, nice! It also resembles the iPod HiFi very much, wow a mini iPod Hifi…I’m sold on this one!
m00j
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 9:49 PMKT:
The secret is to put a piece of duct/gaffer(choose your preferred tape medium) over the face of the clock.
Sure it makes it kind of useless to tell the time, and people give you evil looks when they see it at your house, but at least the stupid green light doesn’t annoy you any more.
I put the tape over as a temporary solution until I got around to wiring a switch up to turn the display on and off. That was about two years ago.
Chris
Monday, May 21, 2007 at 11:47 PMIs it just me or do those big silver buttons look like feet? It makes the whole thing look like it’s upside down… with exception for the Ipod sticking out.
Maxville
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 10:14 AMWake-up Wake-up iPod fanboy
Let the “Luna” make you cry!
Spent a fortune on this Crap
Why did ya listen to Snoop’s Rap ?
What could the arising Sun bring
“Luna” plays any damn thing !
Should have bought a Rooster
for all I Knew
Let “Luna” iCock-a-doodle-do
KT
Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 12:09 AMGood idea m00j, I’ll try and get a piece of cardboard and make a sliding cover mechanism for my clock. I’ll just have to pray that I won’t sleep past my alarm because I need to know when to stop pressing the “snooze” button.
Hmm the more I look at this product, the more I want it lol. Strictly black and white = hotness
Adz
Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 3:06 PMIt would be nice if this could output video from your iPod.
Link it to a TV/Monitor to wake you up with something inappropriate to motivate you for the day.
Office Space or The Office – Then I just wouldn’t goto work.
Falling Down – Remind you to take a baseball bat in my car to work.
Play School – Wake the kids up to come and annoy you.
Big Brother – Annoy you enough to make you wanna goto work, knowing you have a life.
The IT Crowd – Make you think your not as geeky as you thought. BTW when is series 2 coming out?
KT
Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 1:37 PMIf I get this I’m going to record a tune for each day of the week and use it as my alarm. Eg:
“Monday – You are currently suffering from Mondayitis; you will drag yourself onto the train and sleep until you missed your station. Hence you’ll be getting a warning from your boos, who is suffering Mondayitis too.”
“Friday – Yay, after work: party, sleep, party, sleep, sleep and sleep without hitting the snooze button on your bloody alarm.”
bender
Monday, May 28, 2007 at 11:32 AMLooks like technology botulism; every technology come together to create a super-strand of infectious converged feature-bloat.
But I *like* it.
Zainuddin Zafar
Monday, May 28, 2007 at 6:03 PMbest comment? crazy laa! i dont get what you mean by that but i sure would love to win one of those. i’ve just moved to melbourne for uni from Pakistan and am an international student at RMIT unviversity. i would love to win this thing since it would be very useful to me (for the obvious alarm clock) heck i would love to win this anyway, for the sake of it. all i can say i guess. i know im not the brightest but winning this competition would mean alot to me since this is the first one i’ve ever entered on any gizmodo website beacuse they were almost always open to only USA citizens. but now this is my chance.
Ian
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 12:12 PMWhen I was a child, my dad let me play with his Ham radio system. I used to enjoy chatting to all areas of the globe.
Most of all however, I loved the knobs. Twisting, turning, I couldn’t get enough! In fact, I still can’t! I spend hours each and every day turning dials and knobs. It’s a sick addiction! it really is!
So far to date, I’ve replaced 77 door handles, 42 gas oven knobs, several stereo amplifier knobs a couple of iPod wheels and many other things that are just calling out to be twisted and turned.
Oh! and that doesn’t include all the face slaps I get when I attempt to “tune in Tokyo” with a well endowed individual on the street! Like I said, I’m really, really sick.
Anyway, I think I know of the cure to my problem, and I think you do too. The XtremeMac Luna, it has the most hard-core knobs you can imagine! They’re so sweet with their metal finish… I can just feel them now… ooh baby…
Ahem! I mean to say, the Luna looks like a hard-core piece of kit; something that will let me pour out all of my knob turning sickness on it. But not only that, it does things as well! It will wake me up in the morning, it’ll play my iPod and even tell me the time. I just can’t go wrong!
Please… PLEASE help me with my sickness, I need to be cured and the Luna is my solution.
Sincerely Yours,
Ian.
Sicko and Weirdo
KT
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 5:11 PMFor $299 you can get an alarm clock, AM/FM radio, an iPod charger, an iPod speaker, 4 knobs and a beautiful(literally) piece of technology. Also you can put batteries into it and take it anywhere with you, for example to the beach, or the bathroom.
This is also an intelligent alarm clock; you can cuztomise many functions such as how long your snooze time is (a plus!), what song to play and what how bright the screen is when you’re up.
This product is a must-have for all iPod owners out there.
Pat
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 2:52 PMLooking for a smart and sassy comment….Music, Movies, Photo, Photos, Extras, Settings, Shuffle Songs, Backlit…thats no help.
My head hurts, defy Murphys Law and let me win.
richard
Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 8:36 PMThis letter might come to you as a surprise because we have not met before either in person nor by correspondence. I got your contact through a discreet inquiry you appealed to me, as being quite astute in private entrepreneurship there is no room for doubt in your ability to render your solicited assistance involving no risk but your trust and confidentiality.
More informations will be communicated to you as soon as you indicate your readiness and the modalities for the movement of the “iPod Dock Clock Radio” are perfected, then I will be coming over for a short time brake to meet with you for a detailed discussion on what and how to operate the device upon your confirmation on the receipt of the comment.
I anticipate your prompt and committed response through my personal email as stated above. I urge you to establish cordial contact/ relationship with me; you will understand that I am not a stranger as such to you but some one designated to fly the colours of life together with you.
Sincere wishes and best regards,
Mr Richard.
C.Treitl
Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 2:10 PMIt all started one very beautiful day…i don’t remember the exact date or time, but that day the radio was invented. Then came the alarm clock and later the wonderful little gadget the Ipod. Now, in this fateful day, a little creativity, imagination and design the XtremeMac Luna was invented. Almost like a mutant (Ninja Turtle) it combines a radio, alarm clock and ipod. What a sight! No, the’re not all stuck together with sticky tape to create this magnificent wonder, they are morphed into the XtremeMac Luna. So the next time you wake up, you will hear sweet music to your ears (or rock depending on what’s on the radio), which will increase in volume as you open your eyes. So don’t blink because it might just all be a dream. XTREME MAC LUNA, JUST A DREAM!
halfabrain
Tuesday, June 5, 2007 at 8:42 AMso… did anyone win?