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Sonic Boom to wake you up from sleep

January 12, 2007 by in Gadgets,Stupid with 9 Comments

I believe that being woken up with something like the Sonic Boom alarm clock might actually do more harm than good. Does anyone else share the same belief? Wasn’t there a study that proved that your day would probably be better off when started with a soothing alarm clock rather than a 113 dB eardrum jarring alternative?

I mean, if waking up with a splitting headache sounds like your kind of morning, by all means, do check out the Sonic Boom Alarm Clock [via]. The beats will definitely rock your mornings – and not in the good way. The damn thing even comes with a 12V bed shaker just in case the car horn like blast has no effect on your deep sleep patterns.

I think I’ll pass on this one. I’m the type that prefers to wake up when I’m damn well ready to wake up.


  • http://www.pjllobell.com PVL

    It doesn’t matter what alarm clock I use, nothing will wake me up. My fire department pager will wake me up in a split second at 4am any day though.

  • http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

    What exactly does your fire alarm pager do?

  • Benji

    Alerts him that people are dying, and he needs to get his ass up.

  • SamuelDr

    wake him up?

  • http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

    Smart asses all of you! Obviously curious to know why PVL’s fire department pager was more successful than his alarm clock.

  • http://www.pjllobell.com PVL

    @ Benji – Perfect way to put it.

    @ Derek – Vibrates and beeps rapidly sounds kind of like this: http://www.monroefd.com/sounds/monroefdpager.wav and then some guy with a pleasing baritone voice tells me what I’m responding to.

    I think it’s actually the sound that gets the adrenaline pumping which wakes me up.

  • chad

    I have to put my alarm clock on the other side of the room in a high place actually requiring me to get out of bed and reach for it to wake me up… sadly I often hit snooze and lay back down like 5 times and oversleep anyway…. I’m suuuuuuper at sleeping… and bad at being on time… so yea

  • Chris

    I have a computer alarm clock that requires me to get out of bed and type a fairly long password that I know, but is hard to type when you’re half awake and the music is getting louder. Then I get on and hit snooze and do it again and again until I’m fringe late/late like Chad.

  • http://is.derekpunsalan.com Derek

    I’ve tried the whole alarm clock across the room trick. Unfortunately, I discovered that I continued to wake up late. Apparently, I get up, turn off the alarm clock, and return back to sleep.

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