The best feature I ever had

Hope this might hook a few people and tip me to the sma ething.It was and alarm clock.Ok I know this sounds stupid at first but it was an early 90's Yamaha AM/FM with a mini-plug for a portable CD player.Nice bass from YST circut.
But what made this one of he most "Why isn't every "X" made that way?" was that it had a chip which set allowed you to set the sleep fucntion at a lower volume than the one give to radio (or if you had inpuit and something set off on timer I suppose) when you woke up.This is such a an obvious way to make an alrm clock I am amazed that I have never seen another designed this way.It is such a no brainer since what will wake you up is too loud to let you get to sleep.
Things come up ocassionally that make me wonder what technological or cultural shift has taken place to make something appear of diaspear.To wit:what happened very recently to make motors so cheap that powered everything toothbrushes to razors availible at a disposable price.It seems like verything out there from spot removing fluid come with one of these brushes to even toilet brushes.Also remember "Clear" sold the way it did but now you can't find anything like it (I want clear dishliquid to make LP cleaner-who needs dies-but hen it might have been as bad with chemicals to make it cvlear like bleach via a vis my LP health.
But I digress.this clock was such a no-brainer I am ask if anybody has a clock or device like a ipod dock with same variable sleep verus wake let me know.Then I guess it'll be back to have your heard the Diamond tweeter or how does this chip am sound verus tubes.I lost the Yamaha radio and two speakaers on way trip to Israel (maybe I pawned it for Hostel room and Fallafel's-was a student travelling around).I gues there have been more imporatant technologies that have entered my life like the web but this has been bugging me for 15 years.
Thanks
Chazz