We got this alarm clock for our grandson to wake up for school, the astronaut helmet look is absolutely adorable and this clock is loaded with features, the LED light ring on the front has several different colors and patterns as well as a sunrise mode where the light ring will slowly get brighter ever 20 minutes or so, it also has a few different nature sounds and white noise to fall asleep to, there is also an FM radio with a telescopic antenna that picks up most of our local stations pretty good and it also has bluetooth so his mom can play his favorite songs from her phone when he goes to bed, you can also set up 2 separate wake up alarms and it came with a remote control that can just about control all of the settings and functions, the clock does need to be plugged into an outlet to work but also takes batteries to keep all of the settings if the power goes out. Overall my our grandson absolutely loves it and it's been fairly easy for him to figure out how to use it. Definitely worth price.