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I believe it's a major design flaw that the common alarm clock wakes people up using sound - which is a kind of media that transmit easily in air and permeate through wall.
Recently I have been very busy and I can only take brief sessions of sleep. But it's hard to try to wake up in the middle of the night when I know my wailing alarm clock will wake up others living with me.
Google didn't help me much. There is this neat concept, but it seems that it's not even a real product.
Anyways, TL, are you familiar with any alarm clocks that wakes you up using something other than sound? If you do (or better yet, if you own one), please give me some suggestions.
EDIT: One solution which I tried today is to use my iPod as the alarm clock with ear buds plugged in. It worked, but I was very worried about me moving around while sleeping and the ear buds fell off for the whole night. One solution I am considering is going cable-free (i.e. bluetooth).
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I think phillips and sony have both made some using light to simulate dawn...
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I thought this was going to be about the band 
i would worry that anything that does not rely on sound would not actually wake me up
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I use my cell phone on vibrate, seems to do the trick pretty well. Im a light sleeper so I just leave it somewhere on my bed and the vibrations wake me. If you are not a light sleeper I would imagine you could get pajamas with pockets or just tuck it into the waistband of your under garments if you dont toss around alot.
If you wanted to get imaginative with it though, you could hire someone to violently shake you awake every morning.
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On March 07 2011 20:28 tSaR wrote:
I use my cell phone on vibrate, seems to do the trick pretty well. Im a light sleeper so I just leave it somewhere on my bed and the vibrations wake me. If you are not a light sleeper I would imagine you could get pajamas with pockets or just tuck it into the waistband of your under garments if you dont toss around alot.
If you wanted to get imaginative with it though, you could hire someone to violently shake you awake every morning.
I just tried this, and it didn't work well for me. I tried holding it on my hand as well as binding it on my arm (and other places which I believe are more sensitive), but it didn't work too well for me.
The problem is not so much that vibration does not wake me up, it's that I can't maintain tight skin contact with it. Maybe I should try this again by warping it a bit tighter to my arm, but then again, I am not sure if that's worth the effort if I can just buy one.
This seems a bit sketchy. Since my sleep cycles does not depend on sunrise (hasn't been for years), I am skeptical that light can actually wake me up unless it's as bright as laser.
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That is interesting...
Immediately put the image of a comically giant hammer falling on my head to wake me up...
A quick google found me the glo pillow, which I'm sure if you googled you saw...
Looked around for where to buy one, but couldn't. This site seems to sell it but idk where
http://www.coroflot.com/ianwalton/glo/2?sort_by=1&
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On March 07 2011 20:38 Terrix wrote:That is interesting... Immediately put the image of a comically giant hammer falling on my head to wake me up... A quick google found me the glo pillow, which I'm sure if you googled you saw... Looked around for where to buy one, but couldn't. This site seems to sell it but idk where http://www.coroflot.com/ianwalton/glo/2?sort_by=1&
Yes I think I saw that one too. I dismissed it because I don't usually use pillows when sleeping.
The only one I saw which may work and can be bought and reasonably cheap is this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Vibrating-Personal-Alarm-Shake-N-Wake/dp/B0027A573Q
The review is kind of poor though, which is why I am hoping to explore alternatives, especially from someone who have experiences with these things.
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when i was little, i used to get up at weekends way early, like 4am-ish to play computer before my parents got up and could stop me - the way i did it was using light as well:
i had a bright as hell lamp at my bed, i think it was a 60W regular light bulb. It was connected through a timer clock power plug. I basically just clamped it up at the head end of the bed, flashing me into the face directly with full 60W insta light power at 4am. That works brilliant ^^
So: Screw wussy dawn simulators or vibration shit, just build yourself a "slap in the face" uber flash waking mechanism, works fine. ^^
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i also use phone on vibrate, sorry this didnt seem to work for you, i leave it on my bed next to my pillow (half a foot from my head or so roughly) and the vibration alone wakes me up easily even on just 3-5 hours of sleep.
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I use my cellphone on vibrate and put it under my pillow.
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How about a clock radio set to reasonably low volume? That shouldn't wake anyone else up.
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On March 07 2011 21:30 ShadowDrgn wrote:
How about a clock radio set to reasonably low volume? That shouldn't wake anyone else up.
That probably won't wake me up, either.
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hmm... I was thinking of you soldering and modifying an alarm clock. Electric voltage that goes to the buzzer of the clock... now goes into you leg through the cables *ZZZZzzzZZAP!*. Feels good man, never tried such a thing, but I'm a crazy scientist 
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Hmm i have come to use my computer as my personal alarm clock.
What i do is to schedule the playing of a specific song using the "at" command. This is of course acoustic as well but from my experience (i usually need very loud alarms to wake up) by choosing the right song (something energetic that you like at the same time but dont listen to every day) this can wake you up using a relatively low volume.
The downside is of course that you have to keep your comp running through the night (mine also acts as a local server so i do not have that problem)
Oh but if you find that one you posted first available for sale somewhere please post it here that might be interesting for me too 
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On March 07 2011 21:48 Ation wrote:hmm... I was thinking of you soldering and modifying an alarm clock. Electric voltage that goes to the buzzer of the clock... now goes into you leg through the cables *ZZZZzzzZZAP!*. Feels good man, never tried such a thing, but I'm a crazy scientist
I actually think it's engineers that may do this. But yea, that *could* work. Slightly painful, but that *could* work....
This week I'll perhaps give the light solution a go. I have never tried it before. I wonder how I should implement this, though.
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On March 07 2011 20:26 Ghostcom wrote:
I think phillips and sony have both made some using light to simulate dawn...
What if you turn over in the middle of the night (to face the wall instead of the clock), or like to wrap your covers over your head (or have some other comfortable position that doesn't lend itself towards necessarily facing the clock)?
Seems very flawed, whereas sound will obviously fill the entire room and reach your ears regardless of your position on your close bed.
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they light your whole room, so you don't have to be facing the clock. They usually start at a low light intensity approx 30 mins before your alarm time and gets brighter to simulate dawn. So facing the wall shouldn't be an issue, but if you wrap your head in the covers......then it probably wont work.
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On March 07 2011 22:38 Lor wrote:
they light your whole room, so you don't have to be facing the clock. They usually start at a low light intensity approx 30 mins before your alarm time and gets brighter to simulate dawn. So facing the wall shouldn't be an issue, but if you wrap your head in the covers......then it probably wont work.
Cool, that makes sense. I'm sure that solves the bigger of the two problems, although I would think that more people are more susceptible to waking up via sound than sight (unless maybe they're in REM sleep). I guess the whole "gradual light" part of it should make waking up a nicer experience, which is why I'm happy that I have an alarm clock that starts off low and slowly gets louder, rather than just immediate blaring
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