New Philips Wake-up Light: will it suck too?

July 31, 2009 at 9:38 am · Filed under Lifestyle, Sound

The problem with all alarm clocks that try to wake you gentle by using light that gets brighter is that none of them work!

Example from the seventies

More recent alarm clock that failed

The ‘old’ Philips Wake-up Light always woke me like a regular alarm clock: instantly. Another problem was that the buttons used to set the (alarm &) time made a lot of noise, so you’d wake your already deeply asleep partner.

The new Philips Wake-up Light looks promising: slick design and is has an iPhone dock for the heavy sleepers. Furthermore it comes with 20 brightness settings.

The new Philips Wake-up Light

Source: Philips

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Mark van Dijk said,

October 8, 2009 @ 11:33 am

I couldn’t agree more with your criticism on the old wake-up light. The buttons are way too noisy. Not only is the mechanic click too loud, also the fact that a sample of the alarm is played on each click is very annoying. I also miss the functionality to only ring the alarm on specific days of the week.

I wonder if your example of a seventies alarm is indeed one from the seventies. Isn’t Dharma Initiative the freaky psycho analytic testing company from the “Lost” TV series?

Astein said,

December 4, 2009 @ 6:57 am

Yes. The new one sucks too. I’ve had it less than two weeks, and the non-replaceable light has failed.

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