I was looking for a good clock radio for my newly minted middle schooler and thought it woiuld be nice to find one that included a dock for her iPod. The first one I found was the iHome, and it was cool lookng -- but at $99, a lot more than I wanted to spend. So I kept looking and stumbled upon this model from Homedics. It turned out that my daughter liked its features even more, because it is also a sound machine and projection clock. And it costs $40 less than the iHome. So everybody wins!