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Can’t wake up? These speaker headboards will blast you out of bed

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

I don’t know what my obsession with waking up is, but I’ve done a good number of posts about crazy alarm clocks. But this one I think trumps them all. Ology partner Chip Chick brings to us a bed with speakers embedded right in the headboard. The current design is strictly for kids, but I [...]

Make your bedroom your personal sleep lab

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Ever wonder why you wake up groggy in the morning, and why some days you just float through cloud, even if you’re getting the requisite 8 hours of sleep every night? It could be because your sleep isn’t good enough. In the realm of sleep, quality counts just as much as, if not more than [...]

Spring Forward…Fall Back

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I recently stumbled upon this lovely invention, which provides a partial solution for a frustration that I have – why do the governments of the world think that they have the power to influence the time and the number of hours of sunlight that I see? I’m talking about Daylight Saving’s Time, a practice that [...]

Top 3 ways to be gently nudged awake

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

1. To the sun gently warming up your room.

But if it’s cloudy all day long, or if the sun simply doesn’t reach your room in the morning, the Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock, found at Hammacher Schlemmer, has a light that gradually dims for 30 minutes when you go to bed, then slowly brightens starting [...]