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Fun Time with the Nintendo ALARMO Smart Sound Alarm Clock
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May 29, 2025
Nintendo has created so many memorable video game worlds, it's easy to forget how much joy those simple soundtracks and graphics bring to generations of gamers! But Nintendo hasn't forgotten, and that's why the Alarmo Sound Clock alarm clock is such a delightful device. Infused with some of the best worlds from Nintendo's history, it offers an array of smart sensors that let you interact with your clock even before you get out of bed. Tech expert and long-time Nintendo fan Dave Taylor checks out the Alarmo, showing just what makes it the best - and most delightful - alarm clock on the market... Check it out at: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/nintendo-sound-clock-alarmo-121311/ Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Basic Specs 2:16 Built-in Nintendo Worlds 3:12 Alarm! 4:33 Tour of Primary Features 5:54 Sleepy Sounds & Settings 7:10 Don't Call It An Alarm Clock 8:05 Sleepy Sounds Demo 9:50 Cable and BYO Wall Charger 11:11 Price & Final Thoughts #nintendo #alarmo #alarmclock #mariokart #marioodyssey #legendofzeldabreathofthewild #splatoon3 #ringfitadventure #askdavetaylor
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this is a remarkably smart alarm clock
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from Nintendo of all companies let's
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check it
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[Music]
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out Dave Taylor here and I got to say
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it's hard to think of a company with
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more fantastic intellectual property
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than Nintendo they have been making
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wonderful video games for decades and
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there's so much great IP great
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characters great music great graphical
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Styles and the company put it all
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together and said let's do something
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totally different and create a piece of
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consumer electronics enter this this is
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the Nintendo
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alarmo sound clock and you're looking at
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it and you're saying uh it's an alarm
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clock so so what the really is an
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interactive alarm clock it has all sorts
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of built-in sensors that give you access
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to a lot of interesting features now
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let's start by pointing out that it has
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a 2.8 in color screen and then at the
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bottom there's a tiny little brightness
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sensor and as you can see in this photo
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there are back and notification buttons
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and there's a confirm button and dial
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and that's what this is on the top and
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let's push
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it and let's turn
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it don't those sounds are aren't they a
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little bit familiar let's see where am I
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now so I'm going to just go ahead and
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push I'm going to set an alarm and so
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here I'm going to set the alarm for
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exploring Lake Lam mode and then I can
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specify the type of alarm and then the
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time of the
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alarm and we are ready to go so now it
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is 11:37 so the alarm should actually
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trigger right now I'm not sure whether
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setting it for the current time confuses
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it but
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well I'm not hearing anything happen so
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let me super quick make it 2 minutes in
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the future all right we have to wait
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about 60 seconds for the alarm to go off
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but that gives me just enough time to
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tell you that you get to pick a title
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and a scene and you can choose from
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currently built into it is Mario Kart 8
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Deluxe Super Mario Odyssey Zelda breath
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of the wild Splatoon 3 and ringfit
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Adventure but if if you pair it with
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your Nintendo account via WiFi and it
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does have built-in wifi then you can
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actually download additional themes and
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one of the themes that they say is
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coming is Animal Crossing so I know my
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kids are going to be super excited about
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that but basically when the alarm
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triggers and we've got to be pretty
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close it's I've have it set to 1139 it's
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an
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1138 when the alarm triggers then it
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starts with some gentle sound depending
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on what mode you've set it to and then a
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visitor will arrive that's themed to the
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particular um scene that you've chosen
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then if you don't get up it does a brief
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snooze oh here we go so it's starting to
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try to wake me up and this is so nice
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cuz you can have it be a relatively
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gentle alarm and so
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now getting some music and I got to say
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it does a really has a nice little speed
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speaker built into it so the sounds are
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really very
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pleasant so we should have the visitor
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arriving yep so we have the visitor on
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the front but there's motion sensors so
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me doing that has told it hey I've
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gotten up because it thinks that it's
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pointing at my bed I'm kind of spoofing
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it right now but that's okay you never
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have to actually use the alarm if you
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don't want to but that's really where a
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lot of the fun is but if you don't get
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up it starts to get annoying and louder
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and more aggressive so I think that like
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for teenagers this is just a phenomenal
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little alarm clock so it comes with all
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those IPS and we have sleepy sounds so
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let's do that so I think that let's see
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so it's asking me to stop the alarm and
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I'm going to stop it so that'll start
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this will no longer be illuminated and
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now if you push and hold you get to
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settings let me give you a closeup of
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just a little bit of a tour of some of
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the features here so I'm going to push
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and hold and now you can see it's set
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alarm alarm
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onoff sleepy
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sounds hourly
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chime records for how you sleep remember
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it has
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sensors
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settings download new alarms definitely
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one of the most exciting
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areas and help so let's go go back and
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let's set the
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alarm and you can see there are a ton of
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options and not only are there different
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options but you can do things like have
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it shuffle so we'll pick that and then
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in terms of the actual alarm modes you
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can choose between gentle
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mode button mode where it's like an old
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stool old school alarm clock where you
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push the button to turn off the alarm
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and then steady mode Let's go back to
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Gentle mode and then you can set the
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time I have it for 7:30 but if you've
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used a traditional alarm clock you know
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this is extraordinarily easy to set by
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comparison so we'll set
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[Music]
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it now let's see what else we can do
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let's see we set the alarm we can turn
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it on and off we can go into sleepy
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sound sounds we'll come back to that in
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a second you can set an hourly
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chime and let's go into
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settings and you can see that there's
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also a lot of different things that you
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can change and adjust
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here and I'm going to just push the back
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button and then let's go back to Sleepy
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sounds and again you can set this so
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when you're going to bed it can just
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start playing really chill audio so we
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can set it we'll just leave it for 10:42
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sounds good leave it
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[Music]
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on and there we go and notice because I
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chose a different theme that the display
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is different and the character is
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different too tell me that's not super
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cool there's a lot to play with here and
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all of the sounds obviously I don't have
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the right to rebroadcast Nintendo audio
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but it's super well done it's really
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very entertaining and it is spendy for
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an alarm clock but this isn't really an
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alarm clock I looked at some other
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people's um reviews and stuff and I was
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kind of disappointed that they didn't
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seem to understand this is a far more
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sophisticated device than it looks this
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is not your uncle or your grandfather's
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alarm clock this is not something where
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you just hit the top and you're done the
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alarm's turned off this is so much more
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sophisticated it even wants to know
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where is it being positioned relative to
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your bed and how big is your bed so it
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can detect you know are you moving from
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side to side or you in such a small bed
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that you're like totally just laying
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there as you sleep and when you wake up
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it has motion sensor so it can see that
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you are out of bed or that you are
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walking towards the alarm clock so you
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don't actually ever have to touch it
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once you have it all set up and
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configured
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correctly see if I can turn the volume
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up there we
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[Music]
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go that's very pleasant so basically
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Ally what we have here is we have a
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sleep machine that also shows the time
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and can also do alarms so all of this
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adds up to being pretty cool so let's
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see if I can stop
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[Music]
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it not sure how you stop it I guess I
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can just
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go see that's the problem as I said is
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that this is pretty sophisticated Gizmo
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there we go
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so I think I'm just going to get sleepy
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sounds so we're just going to roll with
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those sleepy sounds so as I said it has
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hands-free sensors it can detect what
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you're doing if you're laying down if
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you are waving your hands all of those
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can be set so that they will turn off
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your alarm of course what you really
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want is an alarm that actually gets you
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out of bed and at least if this is doing
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that that it's pretty fun so if you're
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going to have to get out of bed early
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earlier than you want which is almost
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always why you have an alarm
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clock then this will give you the chance
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to do it Nintendo style so big fan of
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this I think this is really fun so let
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me turn that volume off well it's super
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quiet still there but it's super quiet
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excellent this is the Nintendo alarmo
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sound clock and let me show you real
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quick that it requires USBC and I
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unplugged it is it going to forget what
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time it is no it's not but I wanted to
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point out that it comes with the clock
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and a USB CD usba cable and that's it so
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you're going to have to bring your own
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charging wall plug and you can pick up a
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little tiny Cube that will plug into
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your wall and have usba for probably
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under $5 at the gas station or Target or
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Walmart or something but you will have
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to have your own it does not include one
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I'm not sure why given the premium price
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but be that as it may that's what you
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need I have happen to have one back here
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so I'm going to plug this back in and
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you will see that it might have turned
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off the music temporarily but once we
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get it all plugged in it has not
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forgotten the time which is so nice so
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if you have a power outage it's not
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going to forget you're not going to have
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to go back and set it again and in fact
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not only that but if you pair it onto
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your WiFi network then it will actually
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be able to get the time from the network
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which is going to be more precise that's
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really what you should
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do okay this as I said is the Nintendo
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alarmo sound clock and it is
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9999 nintendo.com I think it's a
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fantastic device I'm really looking
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forward to seeing what new uh themes I
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can um
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download from Nintendo really eager to
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get animal crossing that's what I got
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think I'm going to put it next to my bed
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and go have a nap cuz it's so peace
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peaceful that's all I got hope to catch
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you in my next video
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[Music]
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