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29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
March 07 2011 14:42 GMT
#21
how about putting several cell phones in your pockets and set them all to vibrate? now you can do something with your old cell phones!
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Stenstyren
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden619 Posts
March 07 2011 14:45 GMT
#22
Get a fan, plug it in to a timer and set it for however many hours you want to sleep.

Put it on your nightstand or somewhere where it will blow wind onto you and you're set. A good idea would be to set a normal alarm as well, 10 minutes later just so that you are sure the first times.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
March 07 2011 14:49 GMT
#23
I tend to wake up about 10-20 minutes before my alarm goes off. I know a few other people who are like this too... It is either because I'm stressed and thinking about when I need to wake up, or it's because I give myself the amount of time I think I'll need to sleep... I'm not really sure which.

A light alarm clock sounds really cool tho.
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Assault_1
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada1950 Posts
March 07 2011 15:09 GMT
#24
I think theres only 5 ways to wake you up: touch, sound, vision, taste or smell.. I don't imagine the latter two do be useful. Only thing I can think of is u sleep with an ipod/earphones, or put a cellphone on vibrate under ur pillow
M1.BoA
Profile Joined October 2009
Malaysia21 Posts
March 07 2011 15:48 GMT
#25


Should work though...
Elegy
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States1629 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-07 16:17:22
March 07 2011 16:10 GMT
#26
Before you go to sleep, check to see what time it is. After you get in bed, keep repeating in your head "I need to get up at X o'clock", at least five times, possibly more.

It's literally never failed for me.

But I'm weird.

However, iPod/cellphone earbuds seems to be the best method, maybe an over the ear type is better as it might be less likely to fall out
MoreFaSho
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1427 Posts
March 07 2011 16:37 GMT
#27
I have one, I like the concept and I have the phillips one. It is very buggy though from a mechanical perspective. The buttons seem to get stuck in certain modes and I've had a lot of trouble fixing it. I would return it, but I bought it from a friend when he was moving out of the country.
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PJFrylar
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States350 Posts
March 07 2011 17:01 GMT
#28
On March 07 2011 22:00 Sufficiency wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


Eh, I'm not sold that would actually work. The voltage going to the buzzer in the alarm clock is probably pretty low voltage DC; I doubt they put line voltage to it. The human skin is actually reasonably resistive at low voltages (can be as high as 100,000 ohms if dry and intact at low voltage). As such the current will end up being pretty low, probably too low to wake someone or even feel.

Also there is the fact that electrocution is very dangerous.
techn1cal
Profile Joined May 2006
United States68 Posts
March 07 2011 17:35 GMT
#29
Don't know if this has already been posted but this would be really cool if they actually made this:

http://www.yankodesign.com/2011/02/23/morning-brain-gym/
teamamerica
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States958 Posts
March 07 2011 19:29 GMT
#30
I know some hard of hearing people who use this alarm clock.

http://www.sonicalert.com/products-alarm-clocks-SB200ss.html

Has a little piece that vibrates like crazy to wake you up (you can disable sound iirc). Even if you miss your little cell phone vibrate, I doubt you're sleeping through this.
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Yotta
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States270 Posts
March 07 2011 20:32 GMT
#31
Set your alarm to play the "nuclear launch detected" alert at a low volume. This will wake you and not your roommates as long as they are not starcraft players.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
March 08 2011 00:41 GMT
#32
On March 08 2011 05:32 Yotta wrote:
Set your alarm to play the "nuclear launch detected" alert at a low volume. This will wake you and not your roommates as long as they are not starcraft players.


Very funny, but I am not a sc player either.
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Straught
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Mexico157 Posts
March 08 2011 03:07 GMT
#33
I use my cellphone, it has a vibrate alarm option, and It jut sits by my side, on a night table. When it vibrates, it makes a sound, enough to wake me up but not enough to wake up antbody else.
YejinYejin
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1053 Posts
March 08 2011 03:21 GMT
#34
On March 08 2011 09:41 Sufficiency wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 08 2011 05:32 Yotta wrote:
Set your alarm to play the "nuclear launch detected" alert at a low volume. This will wake you and not your roommates as long as they are not starcraft players.


Very funny, but I am not a sc player either.


Do you come to Teamliquid for entirely non-starcraft-related things?
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oxidized
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States324 Posts
March 08 2011 14:14 GMT
#35
Perhaps you should consider building yourself a bacon alarm clock: http://www.mathlete.com/portfolio/wakeNbacon.php

It wakes you up with the great smell of bacon!
MoreFaSho
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1427 Posts
March 11 2011 13:43 GMT
#36
Saw this, thought I should definitely post it here. Today's amazon deal of the day is for one of said clocks, but it's the one I have and I don't really use it since it's mechanically buggy and it only allows for a 30 minute setting which doesn't work for me:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox?ref_=pe_36900_19081370
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eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
March 11 2011 14:13 GMT
#37
They should make an alarm clock that attacks you with subwoofer style sound waves.
How's the weather down there?
Golden Ghost
Profile Joined February 2003
Netherlands1041 Posts
March 11 2011 17:08 GMT
#38
On March 07 2011 22:43 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
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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

The Philips Wake-Up light. Uses a combination of light and sound. It starts about 30 minutes before you wake up with emitting a low glow and soft nature sounds (I believe it can also be programmed to be a radiostation) and increases this until your desired wake-up time.

In this way you wake up more rested and you won't wake up in the middle of you REM sleep leaving you with a shitty feeling after getting up.
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Golden Ghost
Profile Joined February 2003
Netherlands1041 Posts
March 11 2011 17:11 GMT
#39
On March 07 2011 23:49 Chef wrote:
I tend to wake up about 10-20 minutes before my alarm goes off. I know a few other people who are like this too... It is either because I'm stressed and thinking about when I need to wake up, or it's because I give myself the amount of time I think I'll need to sleep... I'm not really sure which.

A light alarm clock sounds really cool tho.

I also normally wake up 10 minutes before my alarm clock goes off. I believe it has something to do with a finely tuned internal clock. Even if I don't set my alarm I can say to myself before I go to sleep "I want to wake up at X" and then I wake up at the desired time.
Life is to give and take. You take a vacation and you give to the poor.
Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
March 11 2011 17:30 GMT
#40
Awesome concept, I would buy that.
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