Tell your alarm to shut up with Moshi
(Credit: Moshi)Don't know about you, but personally, I have often fumbled around trying to snooze the alarm clock, and then ended up having to get up from bed because I pushed it off the table to a place I couldn't reach. Moments like that I wish I could just tell the alarm to shut the hell up.
Well, you can now do just that with what Moshi introduced on Monday. It's called Moshi IVR Clock and it could well be the first fully functional voice-responsive alarm clock.
You can use your voice to set the clock time and alarm. When it hears you say, "Hello Moshi," the device will respond with, "Command please." Now you can use any of its 12 built-in, voice-activated commands to explain which tasks you would like it to carry out.
You can ask the Moshi to do quite a number of things, like ask it to tell time, the temperature of the room, the current date, or even to change its lighting for night time, and so on. And of course, you can ask it to set or turn off the alarm without having to move your hands or even open your eyes.
It's no surprise that the World Blind Union officially endorses the Moshi IVR Alarm Clock. Its ease of use through verbal commands significantly benefits the blind community.
And even for unsophisticated sleepy heads like me, the Moshi IRV Alarm clock can do a lot of good. The device costs $50 and is available for purchase now.
Dong Ngo is a CNET editor who covers networking and network storage, and writes about anything else he finds interesting. You can also listen to his podcast at insidecnetlabs.cnet.com. E-mail Dong.
Touching the screen gives you a snooze time of 9 minutes. Or the alarm will automatically snooze for 9 minutes if alarm is not turned off after a minute. The only way to turn OFF the alarm is by giving the command, "Turn off the Alarm".
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by HarmonyHT
June 10, 2009 2:45 PM PDT
- I bought this clock and it is the worst?its voice recognition is not all that it claims. Frequently it picks up the sound of the TV and responds to that with a repeated ?command please? or if you touch the clock while grabbing something on your night table it says ?command please? When you try to set the alarm it will tell you the temperature or ask you the famous question ?command please?. The night light is too bright yet if you don?t use it you can?t read the clock at night. The concept is good, but it is ahead of its time as the technology is not quite there for $50.
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