iHome announces iPad clock radio dock

Someone asked about who uses a clock radio to which my hand flies up. I actually have two in my bedroom right now!!! Seriously they are the loudest most anoying alarm clocks i could find too. When you need to get up nothing is more important, given that most cell phones will hardly wake a dog the alarm clocks stay in the bedroom. Well honestly i do travel with one too, just for that extra insurance when on the road.

I've actually looked at the iHome Alarm clocks if it wasnt for the price being inversely proportional to build quality. The akarm vlocks i have where dirt cheap when purchased and look as if they would out last the iHome products for a very long time. In other wirds iHome has a good idea that they price way to high.

Demand could be significant as i can see a lot of single people "using" the iPad before going to sleep at night. Fill in using anyway you like. If Apple were to reconsider chatroulette, half the plant would have an iHome clock radio at their bedside keeping the iPad ready when needed.

So there are two reasons to have an iHome clock rsdio. As to looking ugly its your bedroom, you are likely to see far uglier in there.

Dave

Does this come with a giant bed?

It looks awful - and will surely reinvigorate the "giant iPhone" jokes.

What I would buy is a sound dock that allows me to have my iPad in landscape orientation - thus giving me a useful option for watching TV/videos/YouTube in the kitchen or study. It could also of course be used as the proverbial clock radio. Something that looks like a designer has at least spent a few hours on (speakers on either side of the landscape screen for example) - rather than this cheap looking hack job of the standard iPhone sound dock.

Might as well just set my MacBook out on my nightstand...

That iPad clock radio dock rocks. It'll go over the spot where I keep my socks, the screen lock set to a picture of Spock, ready to block my sleeping from running amok, I am sure this black box will be purchased in flocks.

ok, that thing just looks ridiculous. what's next, an alarm clock for your iMac?

I mean it's a clock... and a radio.

Who doesn't have fifteen different gadgets on them with a clock? A freaking bar of soap or pair of socks comes with a clock these days.

And radio? What's that? Do people still listen to the radio? The last time I turned on a radio was probably 2001.

Why would you listen to a radio if you have an iPad? You can access any music on the planet with an iPad, but someone wants to wake to a Clear Channel DJ playing the same Justin Bieber song eight times an hour interspersed with advertisements for adult diapers, light beer, and used cars?

Who are these people?!

And don't tell me about NPR or whatever. There is literally nothing on AM or FM "radio" that cannot be accessed in a more convenient and higher quality format on any one of many thousands of mobile devices, superior in every way to a radio.

I wonder if it will read you a bedtime story :P

Umm... This just looks really bizarre. Not to mention risky for those sleepers that tend to be physically active throughout the night.

Buying a clock radio (a ridiculous and useless junk anachronism from the 1970's) to host an iPad is like buying a tractor to pull your Prius around town.

What an ugly, kludgy piece of junk that likely cost $7 to make, but they charge a ridiculous $150 just because an iPad can sit on top of it. Only a fool would purchase that.