Slated to go on sale this fall for $50, the Smart Clock Essential is—essentially?—Lenovo’s take on Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo Dot with Clock, although the Smart Clock Essential’s four-inch LED ...

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A smart alarm clock is essentially a smart speaker — like an Amazon Echo or a Sonos One — but one that’s specially designed with extra privacy features so that it can live in your bedroom. It ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The Lenovo Smart Clock Essential looks a bit dated, despite ...

With the Essential, the pretense of a smart display is gone altogether; the LCD screen has been replaced with a basic LED display. It’s really more of a Google-powered speaker with a clock. As a ...

Smart alarm clocks combine innovative features with personalized wake-up routines, helping you start your day more refreshed and on time. Anastasiya Vragova/ Pexels Waking up in the morning for work ...

For those of us not blessed with the early-bird gene, getting up in the a.m. may feel like an arduous task. And quite frankly, that dusty box you’ve had since college isn’t really helping matters: ...

There is no shortage of things that can tell us the time. Watches, smart watches, smart phones, dumb phones, alarm clocks, wall clocks, laptops, desktops, microwaves, ovens, coffee makers — these are ...

While regular alarm clocks are great, they’re very much outpaced by modern smart alarm clocks that have a ton of great features, including ones that can help you get to sleep. Whether it’s meditation ...

At some point in our prehistory, humans became aware of the passage of time. The ability to accurately measure the hours and minutes in a day makes it possible to recount a sequence of events or meet ...

The Smart Clock Essential really blurs smart display lines. Aesthetics aside, Lenovo’s new device probably has more in common with the Echo Dot with Clock than it does the company’s first-generation ...