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Alarm Clock recommendations?

TwiceOver

TwiceOver

Lifer
I swear my wife is the snooze queen. We have a dual alarm alarm clock which I have had and used for many years. The snooze cycles are 7 minutes apart so by setting the two alarms at a few minutes apart you can essentially make the snooze go off every two minutes.

Somehow, she still manages to sleep through the alarm. She tried the old "The cat walks over the snooze button" story, but that wasn't going to fly. I thought about disabling the snooze but then she would just turn it off and definitely sleep too late.

So... Anyone have good alarm clock recommendations? Maybe something that will only allow so many snooze cycles before it just continually goes off? She does have an iPos so a dock system isn't out of the question. Something with a light that flashes or turns on?

I get up at 4:00am using my cell phone as the alarm so I wouldn't be using it. The main cause of this is her rotating work schedule which often is less than 10hrs between shifts. Today she called me at 8:57, she had to be at work at 9:00!
 
I've gotta use three alarms. Sometimes I won't get in till 3 or 4, and have to be up at 5 or 6 to be at work. I'll sleep through one alarm

1) Alarm clock.
2) Cell phone.
3) Program on my computer. It pumps through an amplifier and into some big ass speakers.

Set three minutes apart, all with different snooze intervals. It .... usually...works, lol.
 
I use my old cell phone. It's got to be 5 or 6 years old by now...works great, and that's the only thing I use it for. 😛
 
I have the Neverlate 7-Day alarm clock. One of the features is a decreasing snooze. You can set it so that the snooze gets shorter and shorter, eventually not letting you snooze any longer.

I also set up a second alarm clock for 30 minutes after my first one. If I hear the second alarm go off, I usually wake up in "oh shit, im late" panic mode.
 
I use a big Timex with CD, nature sounds, line in and radio.
You can set several alarms. My first one is a soft nature sound and they get progressively louder and more annoying.

If I had kept my Rugged Motorola i580 phone I would use that.
That speakerphone is painfully loud.

Also, there are some alarms for deaf people that flash a light. Some of them are REALLY damn bright. Like eating through your eyelids and boiling your eye fluid kind of bright.
 
I used to have to put my alarm clock in a spot where I could hear it, but I'd have to actually get up to turn it off. this helped me.
 
Originally posted by: keird
Sonic Boom
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May I suggest using the vibrating thing though. The alarm is rated something around 110dB on them; I hate loud noises, and I think something like that would make me afraid to go to sleep in the first place, even if I had a bunny with me. 😛

The vibrating thing sits under your pillow, and it sounds and feels like you've got a 1lb bumble bee under your pillow, and she's really pissed off about something. But plug it into a UPS if you don't have an incredibly reliable power grid; the clock has a battery for backup, but the vibrator is powered by a 12VDC wall wart.


If you've got plug-in lamps in the room, you can also get a digital timer so that they turn on with the alarm.


Or get yourself a Gromit. They seem to be quite good at getting people out of bed. 😀

 
I was just thinking of that one. There's also one that has like a helicopter blade take off when it goes off, and you can't silence it until you get up, find the whirly-thing, and put it back on the clock. Same concept, probably just a little simpler device!

I dunno about that vibrator thing. Of course, for a girl, it might make her happier to wake up in the morning, if ya know what I mean?? 😉
 
Originally posted by: keird
Sonic Boom
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Thanks. I don't think this would work though since she moves the pillow a lot in the night, it would probably get disconnected or fall between the wall and bed.

Some good suggestions in here. Thanks everyone.

 
Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Originally posted by: keird
Sonic Boom
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Thanks. I don't think this would work though since she moves the pillow a lot in the night, it would probably get disconnected or fall between the wall and bed.

Some good suggestions in here. Thanks everyone.
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I have mine under the matress. It works fine.

 
Originally posted by: keird
Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Originally posted by: keird
Sonic Boom
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Thanks. I don't think this would work though since she moves the pillow a lot in the night, it would probably get disconnected or fall between the wall and bed.

Some good suggestions in here. Thanks everyone.
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I have mine under the matress. It works fine.
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same, shakes the whole bed, scares the shit outta the cat
 
The Sonic Boom mentioned above would wake anyone. My fiancee has one (and so does several members of her family, some of which are near deaf without hearing aids). My fiancee has the model with an outlet, so it can turn on a table lamp. The instant that lamp goes on, I'm awake. Then there is the loud noise (pitch and volume adjustible) and finally she puts the vibration mode under the mattress. I'm already wide awake before that goes off (the light wakes me up a fraction of a second before the rest). The combination of eyes (light), ears (noise), and touch (vibrations) will stimulate most of your senses.

Keeping them awake is a whole other story though. Anyone can turn off any alarm and then go back to sleep. No reasonable technology will prevent that from occuring. Really, your wife did it to herself, the snooze button should NEVER be used. It just trains you to sleep through alarms and the sleep is poor - you are more tired during the day if you used snooze than if you just got up on the first alarm. Now she's ruined her sleep life and yours, possibly forever.
 
Just keep buying more alarm clocks.

Set them to go off within a few minutes of eachother, and put them in different parts of the room.

lol
 
Originally posted by: dullard
The Sonic Boom mentioned above would wake anyone. My fiancee has one (and so does several members of her family, some of which are near deaf without hearing aids). My fiancee has the model with an outlet, so it can turn on a table lamp. The instant that lamp goes on, I'm awake. Then there is the loud noise (pitch and volume adjustible) and finally she puts the vibration mode under the mattress. I'm already wide awake before that goes off (the light wakes me up a fraction of a second before the rest). The combination of eyes (light), ears (noise), and touch (vibrations) will stimulate most of your senses.

Keeping them awake is a whole other story though. Anyone can turn off any alarm and then go back to sleep. No reasonable technology will prevent that from occuring. Really, your wife did it to herself, the snooze button should NEVER be used. It just trains you to sleep through alarms and the sleep is poor - you are more tired during the day if you used snooze than if you just got up on the first alarm. Now she's ruined her sleep life and yours, possibly forever.
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To think that I was having a pretty nice day, then to Epic Fail after I read this post... I've ruined my sleep life forever. I just though I was tired.

Why do they make alarms with snooze buttons, then? All you're going to end up doing is ruining your sleep life forever. Do they have snooze buttons in Europe? What about Japan?
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Just keep buying more alarm clocks.

Set them to go off within a few minutes of eachother, and put them in different parts of the room.

lol
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Haha, right before I read this I was picturing the same thing in my head. Like 30+ alarm clocks of various shapes/sizes/displays going off together.
 
Originally posted by: marvdmartian
There's also one that has like a helicopter blade take off when it goes off, and you can't silence it until you get up, find the whirly-thing, and put it back on the clock. Same concept, probably just a little simpler device!
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http://www.amazon.com/Flying-D...&qid=1232390178&sr=8-1

I bought this from buy.com ($10 i think) for the same reason as a gift for someone.
I wish that I could tell if it works or not - but it hasn't even been setup yet.
 
clocky

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=208927862

Product description:
The patented alarm clock that runs away and hides to get you out of bed. Clocky gives you one chance to get up. But if you snooze, Clocky will jump off your nightstand and wheel around your room looking for a place to hide, beeping all the while. You'll have to get out of bed to silence his alarm. Clocky is kind of like a misbehaving pet, only he will get up at the right time. Patent 7355928. Clocky is the only alarm clock that runs away, thus ensuring that you get out of bed on time. You can snooze one time before Clocky jumps from the nightstand. Clocky can jump from 3 feet high. Clocky's alarm beeps in an R2D2-like robotic pattern. Option to turn off wheels and use like a conventional alarm clock .
 
Put a loud alarm clock in the far corner of the room. She'll have to get out of bed to hit the snooze, and by that time she's already up.
 
jesus you guys are hardcore

old cell phone, 2 alarms, spaced 15 mins apart so I get an alarm every 5 minutes.
 
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