Cloud b Twilight Constellation Night Light, Turtle

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1. 

   officer’s wife

   June 24, 2011

   261 of 268 people found the following review helpful:

   
   not as bad as reviews say, December 12, 2006

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   This review is from: Cloud b Twilight Constellation Night Light, Turtle (Baby Product)

   We got our turtle yesterday and no, the stars don’t move and the yellow stars don’t show, but my five year old loved having blue stars all over her room. The amber starts would only work if you have very, very dark walls, so they are pretty useless. Finding the constellations can be done if the turtle is in the middle of a large room. I don’t know if it was an earlier model that people said the stars only showed if it was right next to the ceiling, but ours works even if it is on the floor. Granted, the stars are more detailed the closer you get, but I left it at the foot of my daughter’s bed and her room was covered with stars. So the look of enchantment on her face was worth the thirty bucks, plus the turtle is cute. Also, please pay attention to the age recommendation–it truly is for three and over. My one year old would probably stand on it or drop it and the shell could be damaged, so it is for older children.

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   Stargazin’ new mommy “stargazer77”

   June 24, 2011

   89 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

   
   LOVE IT! Highly Recommended!, February 7, 2006

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   Stargazin’ new mommy “stargazer77” (Ohio, USA) –

   This review is from: Cloud b Twilight Constellation Night Light, Turtle (Baby Product)

   I am an avid stargazer and have been looking for the perfect celestial touches for my soon-to-be-arriving baby’s room. This is the most adorable and unique night light I have ever seen! It works beautifully – the star projections on the ceiling are great, and I am especially thrilled that they are actual constellations. To the reviewer who complained about the shell breaking and injuring her 18-month old, it says on the box that this is for ages 3 and up. It’s not meant for babies to play with; it’s more of a night light than a toy anyway. Overall I think it is a high quality, wonderful item and I would recommend it to anyone!

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   D. Logan

   June 24, 2011

   129 of 136 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Great nightlight, March 19, 2006

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   D. Logan (Columbia, MD United States) –
   
     

   This review is from: Cloud b Twilight Constellation Night Light, Turtle (Baby Product)

   My husband and I actually bought the turtle for ourselves. It sits on a chair in our bedroom – we turn it on every night before bed. The turtle is very cute and has three color lights to choose from (blue, white and green). The stars are kinda blurry with the white light, but are clear with the green and the blue. The light is soft and lasts just long enough to get to sleep.

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   tsukata

   June 24, 2011

   759 of 768 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Best “wake-up station” on the market but falls short of “personal internet viewer” title, May 4, 2010

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   tsukata (Gurnee, IL United States) –
   
     
   
     

   This review is from: Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer (Electronics)

   UPDATED: Sony has released a software update that rolled out in the first week of June 2010. I’ve edited the review below to identify issues resolved in the software update. I have noticed some freeze-ups since the software update, but they’ve been relatively infrequent. If you buy the device new now, it will update itself as soon as it connects to the internet.

   The Sony Dash is marketed as a “personal internet viewer.” In my opinion, it does not live up to that name. Others are more accurately calling it “glimpse internet” and “upgraded alarm clock.” It’s a 7-inch touch tablet designed with a weighted wedge style, meant to sit on a countertop or bedside table. Sony basically licensed or bought the Chumby OS and added its own internet video service as well as re-designing the UI a bit for the larger screen. I was attracted to this device because I liked the idea of a Chumby, but it seemed overly bulky and too small of a screen. The Dash takes all the good parts about a Chumby and adds a bigger screen and a better design.

   I’m giving a lot more detail below, but to sum up: what you think of this device is largely going to depend on what you want from it. To me, this device’s best tagline would have identified it as a “wake-up station”…telling you everything you need or want to know as you wake up to begin your day. My rating of this device is based on what I expected out of it: in short, a glorified alarm clock. If your alarm clock could:

   * tell you weather and traffic at a glance
   * have multiple alarms per day, each with their own sounds, configurable in any way you want…if you want to wake up at a different time each day, with a different tone each day, it can handle that. (Really, if you’ve ever used your cellphone as your alarm clock, consider everything your cellphone can do as an alarm clock…this can do all the same stuff, without ever having to worry about all the problems of cellphones as alarm clocks.)
   * quickly show you a few e-mails, status updates, or photos
   * let you go to sleep/snooze to a podcast or internet video

   If you look at that list and think, “wow, that’s exactly what I want in an alarm clock,” then you’re the target user for the Sony Dash. Sadly, they’re not marketing it to you at all. Really, they’re barely doing anything to sell this device. I’ve seen exactly zero ads. Were it not for Engadget, I wouldn’t have even known it was available or what it was. And, stupidly, what Sony is doing is positioning this so it goes up against things like the iPad and Archos tablet. Sony should be positioning this as the best damn alarm clock in the world. That’s their mistake and what will, IMO, make this device fail.

   On that note, I’ve seen alot of reviewers poo-poo the Sony Dash by saying “oh, my cellphone could do this” or “oh, my iPad does this better”. Well, your cellphone and iPad don’t do what this does, because neither of those devices are meant to sit still on a bedside table. Your cellphone and likely your iPad get up and leave when you do, which makes them nearly useless as an alarm clock unless you are a single person living alone. Even if you are a single person (or if you are willing to have separate devices for each person), you’d need to buy several accessories to make a cellphone or iPad sit as nicely as this does on a surface. So, long story short, a cellphone and an iPad appeal to a broader audience, no doubt, but, this device hits a very necessary niche for which the iPad and cellphone are ill-designed.

   PROS:

   * Very fast and easy setup on the device — you can use the device without going to the web, but there are quite a few apps that require configuration via the web, and the web config has issues (see Cons list)
   * Design is sleek. It looks damn cool on your bedside table.
   * Pleasing UI, simple to navigate
   * AccuWeather weather (a plus over other weather services, IMO)
   * Sits securely (can be rubbed by cat without falling over)
   * Bright and colorful screen, videos look great
   * Completely customizable alarms and alarm clock
   * NEW IN 6/2010 UPDATE: Customizable snooze length – 1,2,3,4,5,10,15,20,25, or 30 minutes
   * “night mode” that dims the screen and shows only the clock, when the next alarm is set for and the weather in black and white…though I did notice today that it’s got a little “mom” that writes itself in in cursive, which is kind of a cool “surprise” bit of chrome
   * Price is just about right, in my opinion. If Sony ripped out everything but the alarm clock and weather functions, shrank the screen, and got it to $99 or $79, that’d be a very nice product…would beat the heck out of the…

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5. 

   R. Kim

   June 24, 2011

   178 of 186 people found the following review helpful:

   
   It Has Potential, April 30, 2010

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   R. Kim (Los Angeles, CA USA) –
   
     

   This review is from: Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer (Electronics)

   I’ve been wanting something like this for my living room for a long time as I refuse to hang a clock on the wall or use a clunky looking alarm clock. It’s a beautiful little gadget with nice clean lines and is exactly what I wanted in terms of form factor.

   It’s easy enough to get going; just plug it in and use the wizard to connect it to your wireless 802.11 b/g network. The only part about the setup I didn’t like is that you need to register it on Sony’s website to activate and manage the “channels” and apps. The website definitely needs some work and is awkward at best, and after registering my Dash and adding some apps, I had to power-cycle the Dash before it synchronized and my apps became available.

   Regarding the hardware, it’s a gorgeous little gadget but a little short of perfection. The touch screen lacks the responsiveness of modern smartphone screens (which is what most of us will compare the screen to). I’m also slightly bummed at the resolution; 800×480 pixels is a little sparse for a 7″ screen these days. By comparison, HTC’s upcoming Evo 4G phone will have 800×480 on a 4.3″ screen. My nerdy side thinks it would’ve been nice if they had crammed more pixels in there, but take comfort because frankly from a distance it doesn’t matter as much. An interesting feature is that the screen will flip if you turn the unit upside down. I suppose that would be useful if you want it higher up and would like the screen facing downward, but you’d have to figure out some way to wall mount it and deal with the power cord or stabilize it upside down on a shelf somehow (it’s not set up for either).

   Regarding the software, it needs work. The interface isn’t the most intuitive thing around; e.g. just realizing you have to use the menu button on top to get the menus going takes a second because your first instinct is to do everything via the screen. Customizing it takes patience. And I know it’s early, but many of the currently available apps run in 4:3 mode instead of 16:9, so they don’t even take the whole width of the screen (black bars down the sides like when you’re watching standard def channels on a widescreen TV). I’m sure that part will work itself out as developers get a clue and build apps for 16:9, but it’s bizarre to see apps written specifically for this thing that don’t use the entire screen. I’m also hopeful there will be many more variations of dashboards coming through the pipeline; I’m not crazy about the only 2 I have to pick from right now.

   I wish I could give this thing 3.5 stars, but I’m giving it 3 for now because Sony needs to get to work here. Thankfully most of its shortcomings are software related which can all be easily (and automatically) addressed by Sony. I’ll come back and give it 4 stars after they’ve improved the software and their website. The limit is 4 stars for me though because the touchscreen isn’t as responsive as the smartphone touchscreens many of us are accustomed to, and the screen resolution should be higher for a screen of this size.

   Edit: I learned the reason many apps were done in 4:3 instead of 16:9 is that they were written for the Sony Chumby which has a 4:3 screen.

   Edit #2: Forgot to add that it’s still fun despite its imperfections.

   Update 5/26/10: Sony e-mailed me and said they’ll be doing an over-the-air update to my Dash by the end of this month which includes:
   1. USB functionality for MP3 music playback and photo viewing
   2. A new theme called “Full Screen App” that allows your apps to scroll in full-screen mode
   3. Enhanced alarm functionality, including adjustable snooze duration for custom alarms and simplified one-touch alarm dismissal
   *They also mentioned that the update for next month will include “new themes and the addition of expanded Internet radio options.”

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6. 

   Ian Jordan

   June 24, 2011

   86 of 95 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Wait for updates, May 6, 2010

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   Ian Jordan (Seattle, WA USA) –
   
     

   This review is from: Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer (Electronics)

   The Dash hardware is nice. It has a bright screen, a nice look, reasonable speakers, and a reasonably quick processor.

   But the software. Ugh.

   The software reeks of beta software. Lots of features are missing, even ones they advertise in the boot up video on the device! The USB port doesn’t work for anything, the device can’t display traffic, and the alarm functions are very basic. It has an auto-dim sensor, but the software for that is broken. It’s advertised as an “ultimate alarm clock,” but what advanced alarm clock only allows 5 minute snooze periods and requires you to press at bunch of buttons before you go to bed each night?

   Above all of that, the UI is terribly slow. Button presses take a second to register, which is infuriating and makes no sense on something with a 500MHz processor.

   Sony is promising updates to the unit, but I spoke to a Sony customer service specialist today, and they stated that Sony doesn’t publish feature lists nor dates for upcoming software releases. So until the update is out, customers have no idea when it’s coming or what will be in there. There’s too much that needs to be fixed for this device to make sense for someone to buy today.

   Stay away for now until Sony releases some major updates.

   If you do want it as an alarm clock, here is what it can and cannot do:

   Can:
   1) Set a different alarm time for each day
   2) Have multiple alarms on a given day
   3) Wake you up to a buzzer, Pandora, Slacker, or 10 different pre-chosen radio streams

   Cannot:
   1) Use your own internet radio stream to wake you up
   2) Use an app to wake you up
   3) Use FM radio to wake you up
   4) Use USB music files to wake you up
   5) Have a backup tone to wake you up if the internet is down
   6) Snooze for any period but 5 minutes
   7) Edit or add alarms quickly
   8) Have an alarm period that is not 60 minutes
   9) Have the device go into night mode automatically at night.
   10) Use snooze when waking up to Pandora due to a bug

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