Gadgets That Suck » philips wake-up light http://www.gadgetsthatsuck.com Views on really worthless gadgets Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:36:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Philips Wake-up Light: will it suck too? http://www.gadgetsthatsuck.com/gadget/new-philips-wake-up-light-will-it-suck-too/ http://www.gadgetsthatsuck.com/gadget/new-philips-wake-up-light-will-it-suck-too/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:38:24 +0000 Jake http://www.gadgetsthatsuck.com/?p=269 The problem with all alarm clocks that try to wake you gentle by using light that gets brighter is that none of them work!

Dharma

Example from the seventies

More recent alarm clock that failed

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

The new Philips Wake-up Light

Source: Philips

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