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zero
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 Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:20 pm Smart Alarm Clock Set for Perky Wakeups |
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| Quote: | LONDON (Reuters) - Groggy, sleep-deprived students at Brown University in Rhode Island have invented a new alarm clock that gently wakes snoozers during the lightest phase of their sleep cycle.
So instead of waking up grumpy and tired the clock goes off when people are more likely to get up feeling perky and alert.
"The clock, called SleepSmart, measures your sleep cycle and waits for you to be in your lightest phase of sleep before rousing you," New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday.
"It's makers say that should ensure you wake up feeling refreshed every morning."
The clock is the brainchild of Eric Shashoua, a recent graduate of the university, and his friends who have created a company to develop the idea. They have nearly finished a prototype and hope to market the product by next year.
"As sleep-deprived people ourselves, we started thinking of what to do about it," he said.
The clock records different brain waves made during each phase of the sleep cycle using a microprocessor and a headband equipped with electrodes. The information is wirelessly communicated to the clock.
"You program the clock with the latest time at which you want to be awakened, and it duly wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that," according to the magazine. |
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zero
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| Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:20 pm |
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This would make my day go much much better! And wow, I like the new technology advance here!!!
Good stuff
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luit14
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| Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:05 pm |
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i want one! 
but what if it woke you up way too early or too late?
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Puck
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| Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:19 pm |
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Every night when you sleep, your brain completes the sleep cycles several times...approximatly every 90 minutes it goes through a full cycle. What you do is set the time that is the latest you want to be up, and then the clock will wake you in the last cycle of lightest sleep before the clock reaches the deadline you have entered for it.
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nadia
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Joined: 08 Apr 2005
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Location: Australia
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| Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:18 pm |
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Cool....i think
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Link, the Hero of Time
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Joined: 15 Sep 2001
Posts: 5581
Location: Kokori Forest, Hyrule
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| Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:58 pm |
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useless to partial insomniacs like me, but still a good concept.
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Seven of Nine
Sammie's Mammy
Joined: 16 Jun 2001
Posts: 7871
Location: North East England
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| Fri Apr 15, 2005 9:56 am |
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I want one! Only thing is, I'd need one for Sammie too, so it can wake me before she wakes up  (Our sleep cycles seem very out of sync).
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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| Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:30 pm |
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I like waking up disorientated, in a Dilbert cartoon it said "morning amnesia: nature's way from stopping us waking up screaming". Plus, if I was wired in I might move around and strangle myself or drag the clock of my bedside table in my sleep and break it.
bad idea
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webtaz99
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| Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:06 am |
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Great! Except I have to be at work at 7:00 AM (local), and my lightest sleep phase happens sometime around 11:30 or noon. 
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
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Location: Slough, England
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| Sun Apr 17, 2005 3:32 am |
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/\ yeah, most people seem to wake up best at about 11. It's odd
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Leo Wyatt
Sweetest Angel
Joined: 25 Feb 2004
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Location: Investigating A Crime Scene. What did Quark do this time?
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| Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:27 am |
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I normally wake up at 5 am in the mornings during the week cause of the kids, got to get them ready for school. On weekends I try to sleep in.
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madlilnerd
Duchess of Dancemat
Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 5885
Location: Slough, England
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| Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:56 am |
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I'm a bizzare creature. If I had it my way, I would wake at six and sleep at half 12. I love the night!
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