Mirror Projection Alarm Clock - FM Radio LED Digital Smart Alarm Clock with 180° Time Projection Snooze
Mirror Projection Alarm Clock - FM Radio LED Digital Smart Alarm Clock with 180° Time Projection Snooze
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Mirror Projection Alarm Clock
Read the time without lifting your head off the pillow.
A thin mirror-faced clock with a projector on one end. It throws the time onto your ceiling in soft red, so at three in the morning you open one eye, look up, and go back to sleep. No phone, no screen in your face, no rolling over to squint at a nightstand.
The projector
What the 180 degrees actually means
It is not a throw angle, and it is worth being precise because the number gets misread. The projector is a small cylinder that turns inside a U-shaped slot cut through the right-hand end of the body. You rotate it to aim the beam up at the ceiling or forward onto a wall.
The 180 degrees is the image. Hold the projection button for about three seconds and the projected time flips end over end, so it reads the right way up whether the clock sits on your side of the bed or your partner's.
Learn that one gesture before you decide the clock is faulty. Upside-down projection is far and away the most common complaint about clocks of this design, and almost every time it is this button that nobody found.
The display
A mirror until you need a clock
The whole front is a mirrored panel. Switched off it reads as a small mirror on the shelf; switched on, large digits sit behind the glass with the temperature and humidity stacked beside them.
Both the display and the projected beam dim independently, which matters more than it sounds. A bedside clock with only one brightness is a clock you end up turning to face the wall.
It arrives set to Celsius. Hold the down button for about three seconds to switch it to Fahrenheit. Worth knowing on day one, before you conclude the temperature reading is wrong.
Two alarms
Two people, two wake-up times, one clock
It holds two independent alarms, and each can wake you with the buzzer or with the radio. Snooze runs to a duration you set rather than somebody else's idea of five minutes.
Independent alarms
Set them separately for two different people, or for weekdays and weekends.
Your choice per alarm
Wake to the buzzer, or wake to whichever FM station you left it tuned to.
You set the length
Snooze runs to a duration you choose rather than a fixed interval.
The radio
An FM set that scans and stores for you
The tuner runs from 76.0 to 108.0 MHz, which takes in the whole US FM band with room to spare. Volume runs across fifteen levels, and a sleep timer switches the radio off on its own anywhere from five to ninety minutes later.
- Automatic station storage. It sweeps the band and saves what it finds.
- Scanning is the only way to tune it. There is no keypad for entering a frequency directly, so you choose from the stations the scan turns up rather than dialling one in.
- Fifteen volume levels, so a quiet setting is genuinely quiet at night.
- Sleep timer from five to ninety minutes. It turns itself off after you are asleep.
Read this before you buy
It stays plugged in, and there is no wall plug in the box
Power comes down the USB cable in the box and that is the only way this clock runs. Two facts about that decide whether it suits you, so they are going here rather than in the small print.
- No power adapter is included. The cable ends in a standard USB-A plug and you supply the source: a phone charger, a USB wall outlet, a power bank or a laptop port you already own. This is the most common complaint people make about clocks of this design, and it is only because nothing on the box says so.
- The backup cell saves your settings, it does not run the clock. A coin cell holds the time and both alarms while the power is out, so you are not setting everything again afterwards. But the display goes dark and the alarm will not sound during an outage. Do not buy this as a clock that wakes you through a power cut.
- The second USB port is an output. There is a charging port on the back for your phone, so the clock takes one outlet and hands you a charging point back.
We would rather you knew all three of those before it arrives than after.
Measurements
The numbers, converted from the maker's own drawing
The maker's drawing pairs its centimeter and inch figures inconsistently, so we converted from the centimeter values ourselves and rounded honestly. Note that the 7.4 in figure is the diagonal of the mirrored panel; listings for clocks like this often quote it as though it were the width.
In the box
Clock, stand and cable
Plug it in
Run the USB cable from the back of the clock to any USB power source you already own.
Set the time and the alarms
The buttons sit flush along the top edge, where you can find them by feel in the dark. Keep the leaflet for the first week — several settings use a press-and-hold.
Aim the projector
Turn the head toward the ceiling, then flip the image if it is reading upside down from your side.
- 1 x mirror projection alarm clock with its stand
- 1 x USB power cable
- No power adapter is included; the memory backup cell is already fitted
Straight answers
What we are not going to claim
We do not hold a certification file for this clock, so you will not find an FCC, CE or safety-mark claim anywhere on this page. It is an imported consumer device with an FM receiver in it, and we are not going to print marks we cannot show you the paperwork for.
It is not a radio-controlled or atomic clock. It does not set itself from a time signal and it does not adjust itself for daylight saving. You set it, and you change it twice a year like any other plug-in clock.
We also do not publish a projection distance, a brightness figure, or an accuracy figure for the temperature and humidity readings, because the maker does not publish them and we are not going to estimate them for you. Treat the thermometer and hygrometer as a convenience on a bedside clock, not as instruments.
One more: some of the maker's artwork for clocks in this family shows a black unit with multicolor digits and a different feature list, and one panel of it carries a pseudo-scientific safety claim that means nothing and that we will not repeat. Those pictures describe a different model and we have taken them off this page.
Open one eye. Look up. Go back to sleep.
Two alarms, an FM radio, a dimmable mirror face, and the time on your ceiling.
